Cut open a Wix...string around the media?

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I know the string thing is a Purolater trademark but after cutting open my Wix Sport Truck #1515ST off my 4.0L Jeep it had a string around the media.Maybe more than one manufacturer uses the string to hold the media during assembly then cut it off after,and this one didn't get cut off
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Oh well.. I cut open all my filters off all my customers oil changes to see if everything is cool and thats what I found on the Wix...a Baldwin off a Honda is due to-day.
 
Interesting. Maybe WIX filled a hole in their line by buying from Purolator. How popular is that number?

Are you seeing the same problems with torn media in the Champion filters as Lubeowner?
 
Wix only sells "Wix" filters. No Sport Truck. No different models in their lineup like they make for the NAPA filters (well, they do make a racing filter, so I am not completly correct on this). A Wix made filter made for someone else may have a string, the an actual Wix one should not from everything I have read.
 
The exact part number was #51515ST but don't bother looking them up because the "Sport Truck" filter was discontinued last year or so.They were a great filter but sales weren't up to expectations so Dana discontinued them.I purchased the remaining stock from my local NAPA dealer and have enough for a couple of years on my pet Jeep.Here are some of the features listed on the box...silicone anti-drainback AND engine block sealing gasket..MAGNETIC coil retainer spring...high performance "Tuffglass" media especially made for heavy duty use as well as having the industry's highest weighted average effciency...metal endcaps,spiral steel center tube,baseplate by-pass and double thick canister.When I saw them for $6 I bought all twelve in stock...beautiful filters...but a guy on this site (whom works for Wix) told me that the marketing of these filters was lousy (Sport Truck designation was aleinated to auto purchaser)sales went down and they were cancelled...too bad.Anywho I allways cut my filters open and this particular one had a string around the media.Purolater didn't make it due to the fact that stamped on the filter itself it states.."Wix filtration products division,Dana Corporation,Gastonia,NC..Made in the U.S.A patent pending.
 
This recent post Mobil 1 filter shows a Mobil 1 filter with a string around the media ... maybe more oil filter manufacturers use this technique than what was previously thought, i.e. only Purolator.
 
If I punch 1515ST into the WIX website, it doesn't list any filter with that part number. Where did you buy it? Is that the correct number?
 
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