EEEK! Purolater filter made in India?

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Done a LOF on my Boss's 85 Blazer today. 350 cu in with a roller cam.

He's begun using the truck to tow a large travel trailer so I was able to talk him into 15w-40 Rotella and a 2 qt Purolater filter.
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The filter said "Made in India" right on it. It had a very thick housing and looked good from the outside. Since when has Purolater started making common GM filters in india?
 
I cut open an L 10193 over 2 years ago that was made in Spain. Large area of a very thin media. It may fit my Chevy truck, but not a common GM application.
 
I know that it's probly a fine filter. India probly has more dust and dirt than we do here so they probly know how to build a good filter but I'm more comfortable using an American made product.
 
Odd ball filters are probably made in the market they are used most, use a normal filter and it will probably be fine. Does that one even have a ADBV?
 
The Purolator L34875 is another that until a about yr ago was the Made in the USA filter. Now it's a plain white filter with just a sticker on the side that says Purolator L34875 as well as Made in India.
By what the filter fits it probaly is mostly sold in the middle east.
 
The L20013 cartridge filters I got for the 190E is also "Made in India". Though compared to the heavier oem German Hengst I used previously, this Indian made one sure feels lighter due to the thinner gauge metal cartridge ends..however, the bigger pre-filter media and the numerous/thicker pleats than the former all make up for the rather "cheapness" of this filter...

But who would complain if I get these for $1.50 each after rebate..a 1/3 of a price for a Hengst one($5).

Btw, another Purolator I use is the L40316...same price after rebate, $1.50...but is thru-n-thru a a robustly German made Mann W950/4. These on the other hand costs $10 online that comes in the green/yellow Mann Hummel packaging.

p.s. I scored 4 L40316 today for free(w/ rebate), using the 2/$5 coupon limit 4 and paid using one of the 3 Pep Boys Black Friday $10 GCs I got that were given away at 3 branches this AM..
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ask Purolator, their the ones that quite building the filters here in North America and are going to India for them!!!! "off topic"?? they probaly went to India the same reason Dell computors has phone operaters in India answering the computor problem tech calls from America--It's CHEAPER!!!! I don't really know when India became part of North America but it has in more ways than this!!!!(new math? am 52 and haven't been to school since 72) Yes NAFTA!!!! GM is bringing in engines made in China now, wonder where they got the filters for them????
 
I have cut open a bunch of ST 3950's and L 10193's. They both have about the same amount of media. Why shouldn't I save the buck and buy American made? I need some hard numbers before I will pay a premium for foreign products.

Note, the ST 3950 is not an Ecore.
 
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I'm too old for this new math stuff that they are teaching in school these days.

But, When did India become part of North America?

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Uhm, I don't believe this is math. It used to fall under geography.
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ask Purolator, their the ones that quite building the filters here in North America and are going to India for them!!!! "off topic"?? they probaly went to India the same reason Dell computors has phone operaters in India answering the computor problem tech calls from America--It's CHEAPER!!!! I don't really know when India became part of North America but it has in more ways than this!!!!(new math? am 52 and haven't been to school since 72) Yes NAFTA!!!! GM is bringing in engines made in China now, wonder where they got the filters for them????
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Not just math, its probably your ignorance about how world economy and open markets work that is talking,
but a lot of countires - as you would like to put it - "became part of north america" when america went knocking on their doors begging (and some cases literally forcing them) for an "open" market. Now the same americans are whinning. Nothing new, just another case of short-sighted self-centered policies. Dont ask Purolator, or India for the matter of fact, take it up with your favorite political personalities, that you willingly and consiously elected and to whom you gave the reigns of this country, and not with the other country concerned.
 
Well, I don't think that necessarily applies in this case. I don't think that we've ever forced anyone to open a market. It's always been a passive deal ..where they force fed us goods and our $$ falls and their currency gets too expensive. Now they can try what Japan did, just buy up $$ or sell them to keep their currency (and cost of their goods) even or stable with the US$ ..but then they also do it for all of their competition. They end up buying more and more $$ that they don't need just for the right to sell us stuff for a few slips of green paper. They eventually see the futility in this and sell off all their $$$ and their currency goes sky high ..their workers go idle and they can't afford to sell to our, now poorer, consumers. The only way that they can recoup their lost currency is to build plants in the US, or cheaper nations third world nations, and siphon only the very little cream that is available. They also will buy enterprises that export to their home nation in the US to profit off of their necessary imports to attempt to offset any deficets.

OTOH, typically when we see American products manufactured offshore, it's a form of a jobs program. All of this stuff is approved by the government. It keeps other nations passive and "pays them to be good". It gives you passive leverage in their affairs since their livelyhood is integrated with your foreign trade policy.

Since the US auto market is the last domestic industry of any magnetude ..it is the one most brokered to other nations in the form of "jobs". Hence you'll see filters made in every place from Israel to Indonesia. Obviously the making of the product is indifferent to where it is produced. It's really very obvious.

Funny how foreign made filters really don't equate to cheaper consumer prices for them. Maybe we're sliding faster then I thought in our status as world citizens
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ignorance?? I have No opinion on NAFTA being it is just a fact of life!!! like it or dislike it!!!it's here!!! favorite political personalities?? really didn't matter who you voted for or against-- I buy what I buy and if I don't like it, I won't buy it!! I drive Suzuki Swifts and where were they built-assembiled in Canada with 45%domestic/35%imported and the rest 20%, 'whatever' I guess for they did not say on the sticker when I bought it.
 
From Gary Allen:
"I don't think that we've ever forced anyone to open a market."

Perhaps not forced, but it was certainly intimidating when Admiral Perry lobbed a few cannon shells on Tokyo to get their attention.
 
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