Another failed wix filter! 2 nd this week!
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Was this made in Gastonia North Carolina?
I'm asking myself why people would still want to buy them...
I used to really like wix. So far even the Chinese filters seem better made.
Its not really related, but Ford dealers all over are reporting FL-500S filters with teh base threads cut wrong. I have a block filter adapter to check and have found 6 at my dealer alone.
This isn't just a Oil filter problem, the entire Auto industry is SHORT manpower. We are TWENTY people short and the hire day only 3 were interviewed. Constant downtime and lack of experience of new hires, things being built right now will have problems, and I say that the oil filter is the FIRST thing we noticed, just wait for all the recalls coming up!(that is once your chip is installed a year from now!)
China ideal is locking people in the factories for Zero Covid, locking down port.
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Isn't stuff like this mostly automated?
The computer still needs someone to input the data, run the program, and check the results.
Is that not a DuraMAX filter? The Wix we use with that style are labeled as a DuraMAX and are a Donaldson filter with the WIx name on them. Baldwin used to be the same way. Not sure if they are now though.
It's a hydraulic filter from a caterpillar 950g loader
My brother works at the cleveland engine plant and they are having all kinds of issues with filters. He sent me a picture a couple weeks ago of a gaylord box full of rejects.
Ya, we collect them and return them to my FAD who gives me credit for them. Its annoying to say the least.
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Other filter manufacturers make quality oil filters working in this same economic climate.
Who you supposed to get a quality oil filter off of? Fram went downhill, obviously so did Wix..
It is a costly waste of time.