Hey gang,
This is a Beck/Arnley 041-8181 I purchased from RockAuto and ran on my 2008 Subaru Forester 2.5X. It's made in South Korea. I had used Super Tech All Mileage Synthetic Blend 5W-30 during this run and also have an associated UOA which you can find here. I've also got a video comparing this filter to the blue Subaru 15208AA12A which I hope to get edited and uploaded soon so just keep a lookout if you're interested.
Anywho, not a bad filter, but the ADBV is weak. It's a very low profile design and almost felt like plastic. I had left this filter on it's side for several weeks and it was almost completely drained of oil when I returned to it. I've not had that happen with the blue Subaru filter. If you reference the UOA you'll see insolubles at 0.3 which isn't bad, but wear metals are average on a shorter run. I've got a new UOA on the same oil brand/viscosity from the next 3k miles with the only difference being I used the blue Subaru oil filter and Subaru engine air filter so I'm going to be interested to see if a change occurs in the data. I will post an update as the report becomes available.
This is a Beck/Arnley 041-8181 I purchased from RockAuto and ran on my 2008 Subaru Forester 2.5X. It's made in South Korea. I had used Super Tech All Mileage Synthetic Blend 5W-30 during this run and also have an associated UOA which you can find here. I've also got a video comparing this filter to the blue Subaru 15208AA12A which I hope to get edited and uploaded soon so just keep a lookout if you're interested.
Anywho, not a bad filter, but the ADBV is weak. It's a very low profile design and almost felt like plastic. I had left this filter on it's side for several weeks and it was almost completely drained of oil when I returned to it. I've not had that happen with the blue Subaru filter. If you reference the UOA you'll see insolubles at 0.3 which isn't bad, but wear metals are average on a shorter run. I've got a new UOA on the same oil brand/viscosity from the next 3k miles with the only difference being I used the blue Subaru oil filter and Subaru engine air filter so I'm going to be interested to see if a change occurs in the data. I will post an update as the report becomes available.
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