Are Purolator filters w/ synthetic media worth it?

[fdcg27]

I bought a couple of these today.
I made a roundabout trip home and hit some potential sources of clearance auto supplies that I don't normally visit.
Kmart had the Purolator Synthetic for on sale $5.94 in a very limited selection of part numbers. This price is good through 3/14, so if you'll be anywhere near a Kmart over the next couple of days and want to try these filters, I doubt that you'll find them any cheaper.
They also had Purolator Classics for $2.50 through 3/14 if anyone is interested in those anymore.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: sir1900
Originally Posted By: cptbarkey
So to break it down in its simplest terms, a tiny sect of BITOG members claim that purolators had some sort of tearing issue for a few months late last year. There have been zero reports for 2015.

The facts are:
1. None of the people who posted the suspect filters are professional oil filter openers. The manufacturer is the only one qualified.
2. Because said unqualified people opened these filters, they no doubt damaged them in the process of opening them.
3. The running tally of "failed" filters takes no account of successful and good filters, thus the tally is statistically meaningless.
4. Some even now are emailing higher ups at Purolator, I just need to point out the recent spate with Yahoo harassment to help this small sect understand the implications for unwarranted harassment.

Enjoy the facts.


This is the most ridiculous post I have ever read here on BITOG.


Yeah, just another one of those "straw grasping efforts" to somehow "convince" everyone it was all due to damage while cutting open the filters. It really is ridiculous ... maybe coming from inside Purolator perhaps? LOL

 

[Nate1979]

Anybody know where I can go to night school to get certified in oil filter openning?

 

[FutureDoc]

Originally Posted By: cptbarkey
So to break it down in its simplest terms, a tiny sect of BITOG members claim that purolators had some sort of tearing issue for a few months late last year. There have been zero reports for 2015.

The facts are:
1. None of the people who posted the suspect filters are professional oil filter openers. The manufacturer is the only one qualified.
2. Because said unqualified people opened these filters, they no doubt damaged them in the process of opening them.
3. The running tally of "failed" filters takes no account of successful and good filters, thus the tally is statistically meaningless.
4. Some even now are emailing higher ups at Purolator, I just need to point out the recent spate with Yahoo harassment to help this small sect understand the implications for unwarranted harassment.

Enjoy the facts.


Holy batman... hilarious

I bet I am one of the most over-qualified people to ever open a filter...

It does not take a rocket scientist to open a oil filter but a Ph.D. in transportation can't hurt (half engineer, half public policy). Sure, I am piled higher and deeper (and full of it) but I sent an email and got the "passing it along" response. I even documented how my cuts. Basically, if you cut anywhere near the base-plate, it is impossible to damage the media how it is torn.... and you definitely could not re-create the tears at both ends of the media. Heck, you could open these things down the middle with a chainsaw and still see the failure points.

Anyone with even basic statistical understanding (and I have doctoral-level experimental statistics training) would see that a sudden "implosion" of a a small-sample failure as a HUGE issue. There have only been a couple of dozen deaths from the GM ignition failure despite millions of cars but there is still a major issue. Go talk to a bio-stat or public health official. The number of individuals who report food poisoning is very low. However, a few reports from a particular place despite thousands of patrons can be cause for alarm because you take the low-report numbers into account. So if the folks who open filters start reporting constant failure rates (back to back filters), then statistically there is a significant problem.

And I think there has been reports of filter media failures this year from Mann-made(ie Purolator) filters but since it is only March, the likelihood of seeing 2015 production year filters is low because they are just now making it to the retail point depending on the distribution chain.