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Good Morning Zerosoma, Your system is a good one. Fram filters are excellent and I would recommend the Ultra Synthetic @20k miles life or the Endurance @25k miles life. This will give you plenty of safety factor. Both readily available at Walmart, reasonably priced and you can inspect the...

Good Morning Everyone, Help me understand these stashes of oil filters. If OCIs are approximately 5,000 miles; 1. What are the benefits of stockpiling 10-20 oil filters? (versus buying them when needed) 2. How many miles are BITOG members driving in a year? Thank you!

Hi M Phillips, Thank you for sharing the excellent video of the Bosch defect. I've never tried their filters and plan not to. I'll continue on with Fram.

Good Morning Pepe Silvia, Thank you for the posting. If the filters came from the factory this way; My first thought was what is glue doing in that area? The anti drain back rests on the mounting plate and is held in place under spring loaded pressure. My second thought was lack of leadership in...

Good decision returning them.

I agree with you sending them back, both the filters and packaging look terrible. I've found that retail and auto parts stores carry a lot of good choices and price ranges plus the opportunity to inspect the product before buying.

I read the Amsoil oil filter notes associated with their filter specs and have included them below. Filters designated with product code EA15K are recommended for 15,000 miles (24,000 km) or one year, whichever comes first, in normal or severe service. Filters designated with product code EAO...

Good Morning RagnaroCamaro, I really like your phrase "thought of quality", that says it all. A company's quality philosophy and approach is paramount. My understanding is the Amsoil oil filter is the Fram Endurance. Fram engineers and produces oil filters so I have a high trust level of their...

Good Morning PontiacHO, You have an excellent practice of inspecting your oil filter before purchase. IMHO, you made a good choice with the Fram Ultra Synthetic because it has much better performance specs than an AC Delco Gold Ultra Guard. I use both the Tough Guards and Ultras on my vehicles...

Good Morning, To help you choose I've included my "Oil Filter Value Analysis" database below. Scroll over to the column headings titled: "MULTIPLE OEM OIL CHANGES COST, PERFORMANCE & FEATURES". The analysis is based on a 2021 Subaru Forester Limited with a 6,000 OCI. You'll find the top three...

To answer the OPs question in the title, yes it matters. Macro economically, buying a USA produced product helps our country by employing its citizens and the benefits that come from it. Micro economically, we as individual customers benefit when we buy for the lowest price, independent of...

The Supertech Extended Life (in the blue can); Has better performance specs than the Boss, 99% eff. @30um and 20k life, for $5.97. Half the price of a Boss. Has equal performance specs of a Mobil 1 at almost half the price also.

Hi Ranger57, Below is a database to choose from that has performance specs and prices.

Hi Overkill, This is the brand I have. It works very good.

Hi SRR, My son has 3,165 miles left on his 5,000 OCI. To get the cleaning started, I was going to extract 1/2 quart of oil and replace it with 1/2 quart of the EC30 along with a new Extra Guard oil filter and run it out to 5,000 miles. Then on the next oil change follow your methodology. Sound...

ZeeOSix, When you brought up Wile E. Coyote, I felt we had to pay homage to his sole supplier ACME, with its incredible range of products from the "Greco-Roman Catapult" to the "Rocket Powered Roller Skates"! Gosh I miss that cartoon series! 😁

Hi SubieRubyRoo, Happy New Year to you. I like this technique you recommended. I've got 2 quarts of the EC30 ordered and we're going to give it try. Thank you!

Hi CR94, Another item that comes to mind is maybe the media evolves over time so less is needed thereby reducing the size of the filter. It does mean they're driving down cost but maintaining the filter performance they advertise. Or they pack more pleats and reduce the can size to again reduce...

Great point CR94. Thank you.

Matt, I called my local Autozone this morning and they have it in stock in 0W20, 5W20 and 5W30. $38 for a 5 quart jug.