E-core (so much for all the testing)

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Originally posted by Gary Allan:


We here, although not typical to the general population, typically subject our filters to normal service.
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Nope, bass ackwards. Norm implies what the people in the "1 standard deviation" does. I.e. 68% (or 95%, or even 99%) does. 95% of the people out there don't watch their oil change, most don't have a clue what the manufacturer says to do, most don't get it in before the 3K mile mark.

The board members here OTOH represent the
Sorry, you guys are NOT normal. I know you would like to think you are but you're just nuts.
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Admit it and be at peace.
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Well, I say that the jury is still out. I think that when the new Proline gets through lubeowner's customer base in about 6-9 months that he'll see failures. They may be less ..they may be more, but I imagine that the contour will conform to the same basic profile ..just inflated or deflated. That is, you'll knock off those that fall just inside the products tolerance.

I think that he'll find the same number of manufacturer's defects. The durability failures may be less.

The issue was brought up that filters by Mann and other don't show this characteristic.

Take a look at a Wix equivalent for a MANN:

Part Number: 51088
UPC Number: 765809510883
Principal Application: BMW (82-94), Mercedes-Benz (85-93)
All Applications
Style: Spin-On Lube Filter
Service: Lube
Type: Full Flow
Media: Paper
Height: 4.704
Outer Diameter Top: 2.983
Outer Diameter Bottom: Closed
Thread Size: 3/4-16
By-Pass Valve Setting-PSI: 30
Anti-Drain Back Valve: Yes

Gasket Diameters
Number O.D. I.D. Thk.
Attached 2.740 2.370 0.275

Check the bypass setting. 30 psid ...this has a very substantial media to withstand that type of pressure differential. Hence, failures due to media breach are far less likely.

They aren't the same animal...period.
 
John W Colby - 95% of the people out there don't watch their oil change, most don't have a clue what the manufacturer says to do, most don't get it in before the 3K mile mark.

With the average at 3900 miles I would think the vast majority fall in the 2500 to 3500 mile range. Lets not get carried away with the 3000 mile mark, 4000 is just fine for the majority of engines with the current conventional oils.
 
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Originally posted by Ugly3:
John W Colby - 95% of the people out there don't watch their oil change, most don't have a clue what the manufacturer says to do, most don't get it in before the 3K mile mark.

With the average at 3900 miles I would think the vast majority fall in the 2500 to 3500 mile range. Lets not get carried away with the 3000 mile mark, 4000 is just fine for the majority of engines with the current conventional oils.


You sure?
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How about a car with 30K or 50K or 100K..how much sludge may there be in the pan that can potentially effect the new oil, pressure regulating valve, by-pass valve, and filter element?

How do you know someone didn't go 3K one time, 6K one time, 4K the next, 6 K, 3k the next between oil changes..etc.. that averages out to 5.5 thousand miles between oil changes.

Yet I would wager if you asked the owner how often they changed their oil, the responce would be "generally every 3-4 thousand miles."

That's why it's never so simple based on just one oil change interval...
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Originally posted by ZR2RANDO:
Since when does LUBEOWNER, or any shop owner, or any shadetree mechanic have an obligation to a vendor to keep using their products. A shopowner has an obligation to himself and his customers only. If the shopowner wants to continue using some particular product maybe he does want to spend time/effort working with them on product issues, but he also has the option of just changing products/(mfgr). The distributor in this case understandably wants to see any defective/ damaged products...he has the option of no longer selling those products to his customers as well. If the vendor is very concerned about a customer, particularly a high traffic/shopowner type, seems to me they would be sending someone ("OFFICIAL" company rep..) out to the customer to see first hand the issues that are being reported, they of course have the option of just letting the customer go. The shopowner in this case has already gone further in reporting problems than most would have. People can choose to believe the pics or to think he's making it all up. Some people can continue blaming every detail BUT the products themselves...must not have ever learned any kind of "customer first" philosophy. Sounds like they went to "blame the customer first" school to me.

A little defensive don't you think?

Where I work we recently switched from manufacturer A to manufacturer B for a few specific products. It had nothing to do with quality, only price. Both manufacturers are top quality companies.

Distributors and retailers do this all the time.

We had a situation with a particular part number being mismanufactured. ( we never sold the filters because we knew they were "bad"). We contacted the manufacturer direct. Explained the problem, got a returns goods authorization, and was shipped new manufactured products--different date code-- as a replacement.

On the second batch, the filters still had a problem that we didn't feel comfortable selling them. So we went through the process again. This time their engineering department got more involved, admitted they had a bit of a problem manufacturing, and took steps to correct their manufacturing processes and built us new ones again. The third time ( and since) we've had no problems with the part number.

There are ways to be proactive as a distributor. The manufacturer can't help if they don't know about the problem. If a distributor wants to switch for non quality issues, that's one thing. But if you're having a "quality" issue problem, imo, the distributor should tell the manufacturer. If they want to work with them after they've contacted them or switch to brand X, that's an individual choice.
 
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Originally posted by Filter guy:
Poor ol' lubeowner..he's going to take his ball home and not play anymore.

99, you're right it's time to put up or shut up. So apparently lubeowner wants to shut up.

What a baby.

I'm tired of his woe is me attitude.

If he wants to think people are questioning his credibility, so be it. It's tiresome and stupid.

He's posted some interesting pictures. Not ONE person has questioned the pics.

What people do want to know is more information about the pictures. There is where lubeowner has taken his ball home and refused to play.

If he ( and others in here) can't seperate the difference between the filter and lubeowner himself. Then be children and take your ball home.

That's all most of us have been asking. About more information on the filter . It is the filter that has had the problem. Not the picture. Not lubeowner.

I find it real interesting that lubeowner sells a particular brand of filter and after cutting open their product that he has not contacted the filter manufacturer about what he is finding. Champ has a toll free number. He can contact them via internet. But he has time to post in here and spend weeks on threads about them.

It's not about lubeowner sending filters to joe consumer who reads these forums. It's about sending them in to be tested. I don't personally care if it is a Champ, Fram, Wix, Baldwin, Purolator, Fleetguard, Donaldson, Mann..or whatever brand. If you have a problem send it to them. They have all the testing equipment, do you--joe consumer?

I have also offered my unemployed son , who lives with 15-20 minutes of his shop, to go by and help document the information that has been asked. So far..no responce.

I offered to come by, on my vacation months from now, and help. So far nothing but excuses about being gone.

I offered assisitance. But all I'VE heard are excuses about not being available.

So yeah, someone's taken their ball home..

I suppose those who are so intellectual can look at pictures and say...see, see, see..

So the next time you see a picture of a car that's been in an accident..you know exactly why. Just from the picture. You'll make a great witness on the witness stand with your ability to "know" what happened. The same with looking at a picture of a cut open filter and "knowing" the answer. I'm glad you filter detective super sluths can look at a picture and know without a doubt the reason for the problem in the picture.

Heck, Champ, Fram, Wix, Purolator, etc might as well scrap their test equipment and hire you lot. Why, the filter companies have 50 years plus of data and test information and all you have to do is look at a picture and you know the answer. It will be way more cost effective to hire you. ( where's that tounge in cheek smilie)


ANY filter company will want information about a filter that is returned. Would you return one off your car without telling the manufacturer how many miles were on the car and how many miles there had been between oil changes? Well if you don't. I'll guarantee you they will ask you for it.

So why won't lubeowner post that information? And any other information that might be relivant. Does his lube shop not log in the vehicle miles? I don't care if you cut open one filter, ten, a hundred..if you find one of interest..have the basic information on the one that is of interest.


So, to me, it's not lubeowner that is being questioned..it's the filter and the information about the filter.

Anyone that thinks otherwise, go ahead and take your ball home.


PS: Lubeowner claimed he had sent a box of filters back to Champ and he would post the results of what Champ tells him.

Then when I asked if they have arrived yet..they were sent to his distributor because his distributor want to see them first.

I have asked twice to see if he has followed up with his distributor to see if the box of filters were sent to Champ.

And the answer is??? We still haven't heard.

This is one item lubeowner himself can clear up.


Feel better now that you got that off your chest? But the question remains. Have you sent your UPS or FedEx waybill to Lubeowner yet?
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[ May 01, 2005, 10:51 PM: Message edited by: 99 ]
 
99

Huh?

Why do I want used filters from lubeowner?

Maybe your under some misimpression that I work for Champ. I don't. I'm sales manager for a distributorship that sells primarily hydraulic filters.

He should be contacting them. Not me.

I offered to come to his shop and help document data off filters he changes oil on and see him cut some open so that we could both discuss.

I don't care what brand of filters that lubeowner or anyone else who changes oil for a living or joe consumer has a problem with..unless you send them back to the manufacturer for testing..you basically are guessing at whatever.

He has a filter that has a pleat out of the endcap that is a Purolator..he should send that back to them.

Unless they know they had a problem, they can't correct it or make sure it happens less frequently.

Same with whatever lubeowner finds with any filter he encounters.

Sending filters to someone else in this forum is daft..imho.
 
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Originally posted by Filter guy:
Poor ol' lubeowner..he's going to take his ball home and not play anymore.

99, you're right it's time to put up or shut up. So apparently lubeowner wants to shut up.

What a baby.

I'm tired of his woe is me attitude.

If he wants to think people are questioning his credibility, so be it. It's tiresome and stupid.

He's posted some interesting pictures. Not ONE person has questioned the pics.

What people do want to know is more information about the pictures. There is where lubeowner has taken his ball home and refused to play.

If he ( and others in here) can't seperate the difference between the filter and lubeowner himself. Then be children and take your ball home.

That's all most of us have been asking. About more information on the filter . It is the filter that has had the problem. Not the picture. Not lubeowner.

I find it real interesting that lubeowner sells a particular brand of filter and after cutting open their product that he has not contacted the filter manufacturer about what he is finding. Champ has a toll free number. He can contact them via internet. But he has time to post in here and spend weeks on threads about them.

It's not about lubeowner sending filters to joe consumer who reads these forums. It's about sending them in to be tested. I don't personally care if it is a Champ, Fram, Wix, Baldwin, Purolator, Fleetguard, Donaldson, Mann..or whatever brand. If you have a problem send it to them. They have all the testing equipment, do you--joe consumer?

I have also offered my unemployed son , who lives with 15-20 minutes of his shop, to go by and help document the information that has been asked. So far..no responce.

I offered to come by, on my vacation months from now, and help. So far nothing but excuses about being gone.

I offered assisitance. But all I'VE heard are excuses about not being available.

So yeah, someone's taken their ball home..

I suppose those who are so intellectual can look at pictures and say...see, see, see..

So the next time you see a picture of a car that's been in an accident..you know exactly why. Just from the picture. You'll make a great witness on the witness stand with your ability to "know" what happened. The same with looking at a picture of a cut open filter and "knowing" the answer. I'm glad you filter detective super sluths can look at a picture and know without a doubt the reason for the problem in the picture.

Heck, Champ, Fram, Wix, Purolator, etc might as well scrap their test equipment and hire you lot. Why, the filter companies have 50 years plus of data and test information and all you have to do is look at a picture and you know the answer. It will be way more cost effective to hire you. ( where's that tounge in cheek smilie)


ANY filter company will want information about a filter that is returned. Would you return one off your car without telling the manufacturer how many miles were on the car and how many miles there had been between oil changes? Well if you don't. I'll guarantee you they will ask you for it.

So why won't lubeowner post that information? And any other information that might be relivant. Does his lube shop not log in the vehicle miles? I don't care if you cut open one filter, ten, a hundred..if you find one of interest..have the basic information on the one that is of interest.


So, to me, it's not lubeowner that is being questioned..it's the filter and the information about the filter.

Anyone that thinks otherwise, go ahead and take your ball home.


PS: Lubeowner claimed he had sent a box of filters back to Champ and he would post the results of what Champ tells him.

Then when I asked if they have arrived yet..they were sent to his distributor because his distributor want to see them first.

I have asked twice to see if he has followed up with his distributor to see if the box of filters were sent to Champ.

And the answer is??? We still haven't heard.

This is one item lubeowner himself can clear up.


Filter guy,
I've still not seen a set of operating instructions for an oil filter, and I've seen many OEMs (car, not filter) specify 2 oil changes per filter change.

The level of information that you are asking for is ridiculous, and a diversion.

Why are "brand X" filters failing, and "brand y" not ? somehow, do these filters gravitate towards people who don't operate their vehicles in accordance with the filter manufacturer's specs ?

Are oil filter manufacturers going to microchip the filters, so that the people doing oil changes can scan them, register the mileage, and send the details to a central database ?

Seems logical to me.

Personally, I beleive that your post contravenes forum guidelines WRT getting personal. Not my call, I'm not a mod.
 
Wow,

This thread sure took off. I have been out in the ocean comercial fishing for the last 3 days, so let me answer some questions.

Filter Guy,

I am just posting pics of what I am seeing with different filters. Why do you think I have some bone to pick with Champ?? I have said this time and time again but here it is again since you don't seem to understand: I POST ALL PICS OF FAILED FILTERS, I DONT CARE WHAT BRAND THEY ARE. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT 99.9% OF THEM ARE CHAMP FILTERS. DEAL WITH IT.

An oil filter must survive the MANUFACUTRER recommended OCI. You are talking about 3k drain being all that the filter can handle. Most new vehicles are recommending 5, 10, or 15K drain intervals. Are you not aware of this? Then blaming a high mileage engine for filter failure. Come on. You are really reaching for excuses at this point. Why do I not see other brands with caved in media on high mileage engines?


We have cut open lots of Wix filters including the ones supplied to NAPA under the Proselect line. The reason we switched to the Wix filters is because we have seen no failure on any of the Wix built filters. Believe me we did a lot of research before switching. We are also carrying a select few of NAPA Gold line filters for our friends with exotic Euro cars. We do charge more for these and have had no complaints so far and the customers were glad that we were using a high quality filter on their car.
 
Lubeowner,
I appreciate the work you've done. Don't feel like you have to justify your actions. The pictures speak for themselves. Why can't people believe that the 2 cheapest filters in design and cost (Fram and Champ) have a higher failure rate than expensive filters? Doesn't surprise me. Keep up the good work, and keep posting!
 
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Originally posted by C4Dave:
Why can't people believe that the 2 cheapest filters in design and cost (Fram and Champ) have a higher failure rate than expensive filters? Doesn't surprise me.

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I think that pretty much says it all.
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Originally posted by C4Dave:
snip.... Why can't people believe that the 2 cheapest filters in design and cost (Fram and Champ) have a higher failure rate than expensive filters? Doesn't surprise me. Keep up the good work, and keep posting!

I don't see anyone here defending Fram. As for Champ, I have only cut open at most a dozen of them. However if they were the problem Lubeowner shows, you would think at least one of them would have been bad. Why should I switch to a more expensive filter to avoid problems I don't have?
 
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Originally posted by Hootbro:
Are the Champ failed filters you picture come from 4K mile vehicles or 10K+ ones? Some filters are designed for 3500 mile replacement and others 10,000 plus.Hootbro

Where did this info come from?

When you buy a filter,they state that they meet or exceed manufacturer specs when they are used accordingly,except for maybe Fram.

I have not seen an ST or Purolator filter say that they are good for only 3500K .

I have only seen that they meet auto makers specs when changed accordingly.This could be 4-7500K depending on the auto maker and application.

Many auto makers are now calling for 4-7500K miles between oil changes.

This contrdicts what you stated in you response above.

An oil filter is made,according to the filter maker themselves,to meet auto makers specs.

If the filter fails during 3500 miles it is not doing what it says it will.

If a filter fails at 3500 miles and the auto maker calls for a 7500 mile oil change,the filter in question is not meeting the standards that it says it will,it has failed.
 
As far as japanese mfg's recommended filter change intervals;

Mitsubishi recommends oil changes at 7500mi and filter changes every other oil change(for "normal" use 3750 for "severe"). (15000 mi filter changes, 7500 for "severe"). Go ahead a Mitsubishe bash if you want. My only point is they are an example of a mfg recommending long filter change intervals.
 
I dont think anyone is trying to cover for a persons neglect in auto care.

Wat many are saying is that an oil filter is supposed to meet auto makers specs.

If the filter fails in 3K when a manufacturer calls for a 7500 mile oil change,the filter is not meeting the auto makers specs.

I have not read anywhere in this discussion where someone has implied that a filter should last when abused.

What is being said is that auto makers are requiring longer OCI's and therefor,filters
are supposed to meet these requirements.

It seems evident that some filters are unable to do so.

Since the filters are not meeting these standards,they need to state such on the filter box.

They need to make a point to say that the filter in question should not be used beyond X amount of miles or X amount of months.

They are not doing such.What they are doing is saying that (paraphrase):

'The following filter meets or exceeds manufacturer specs when changed according to the auto maker.'


If a filter fails during the recommended OCI,it isnt meeting the required spec that the auto maker is asking for.
 
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Originally posted by Winston:
As far as japanese mfg's recommended filter change intervals;

Mitsubishi recommends oil changes at 7500mi and filter changes every other oil change(for "normal" use 3750 for "severe"). (15000 mi filter changes, 7500 for "severe"). Go ahead a Mitsubishe bash if you want. My only point is they are an example of a mfg recommending long filter change intervals.


My 1998 Chrysler Town & Country Van has a recommended 15,000 mile filter change for normal service.
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Originally posted by Gary Allan:
If you look at some of the VW filter specs on Wix's site ..they aren't anything like a typical Napa Gold. They sport 30 lb bypass settings ..and therefore have a SUBSTANTIALLY more durable media to resist caving in with that PSID.

The media is different in a 8 psi vs. a 30 psi. bypass filter?
 
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