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Around 1991 -Fram PH something -oil filter from Walmart- on a 1990 Mitsubishi Mirage 1.5
First oil filter you ever installed or used?
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A cartridge oil filter, 1993ish. I don't remember if it was ACDelco or Napa Gold, but I do remember wearing a quart and a half of filthy sludge on the front of my shirt when it spilled on me.
Napa Gold
When I did my first oil changes I would do them for my dad. I always used Fram or motorcraft filters and PYB or VWB.
When I got my first cars I started using Bosch premium filters and 10w30 M1
When I got my first cars I started using Bosch premium filters and 10w30 M1
Napa Gold since the Napa parts store was in another neighborhood across the highway so it was a quick bike ride there. It was not until I joined BITOG to find out they were WIX filters (and the existence of other filter brands.) Only drama-free filter I will continue to use until I die.
I don't remember that far back, around 1958 or 59, but I'm sure it was either a Fram or Purolator bypass filter.
Originally Posted By: Char Baby
My Dad had a station from '55-'79 then he retired. We used Purolator when I started working with him in 1970. IDK what he used prior!
After Dad retired, I did use quite a few Lee oil filters.
My Dad had a station from '55-'79 then he retired. We used Purolator when I started working with him in 1970. IDK what he used prior!
After Dad retired, I did use quite a few Lee oil filters.
It was a Fram of some sort on my '88 Plymouth Sundance in '94.
I used a lot of those Fram "Double Guard" filters in the mid 90s, because I bought into the marketing jazz.
I used a lot of those Fram "Double Guard" filters in the mid 90s, because I bought into the marketing jazz.
Fram PH3980 on my 1997 Chevy S10.
I don't miss that truck. The week after I bought it home it needed $1100 in transmission work. A month later it needed an alternator. A month later it needed oil cooler lines to the tune of almost $400. The A/C dying was the last straw.
Ah, memories.
I don't miss that truck. The week after I bought it home it needed $1100 in transmission work. A month later it needed an alternator. A month later it needed oil cooler lines to the tune of almost $400. The A/C dying was the last straw.
Ah, memories.
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Would've been an orange can no doubt, though I don't exactly remember it but that was all I ever used for the first 20-25 years of doing oil changes.
Don't quite remember, but it would have been a Fram or a Lee.
This would have been in 1978 on my 1973 Vega wagon.
I used a number of both over the years before settling on Fram, following a mid 'eighties oil filter test I saw in Consumer Reports.
I used the orange can for many years after that and still use them now and then.
I never did join the Fram haters club.
This would have been in 1978 on my 1973 Vega wagon.
I used a number of both over the years before settling on Fram, following a mid 'eighties oil filter test I saw in Consumer Reports.
I used the orange can for many years after that and still use them now and then.
I never did join the Fram haters club.
Originally Posted By: fdcg27
Don't quite remember, but it would have been a Fram or a Lee......
Same here.
A Lee I suspect first, as they were quite popular and had a good selection at Kmart iirc. But maybe an orange can.
Don't quite remember, but it would have been a Fram or a Lee......
Same here.
A Lee I suspect first, as they were quite popular and had a good selection at Kmart iirc. But maybe an orange can.
Originally Posted By: Virtuoso
It was a Fram of some sort on my '88 Plymouth Sundance in '94.
I used a lot of those Fram "Double Guard" filters in the mid 90s, because I bought into the marketing jazz.
Rock auto still has some of those double guards they are trying to sell for 10 bucks.
I use those a few times but decided meh.
It was a Fram of some sort on my '88 Plymouth Sundance in '94.
I used a lot of those Fram "Double Guard" filters in the mid 90s, because I bought into the marketing jazz.
Rock auto still has some of those double guards they are trying to sell for 10 bucks.
I use those a few times but decided meh.
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Originally Posted By: JRed
Fram PH3980 on my 1997 Chevy S10.
I don't miss that truck. The week after I bought it home it needed $1100 in transmission work. A month later it needed an alternator. A month later it needed oil cooler lines to the tune of almost $400. The A/C dying was the last straw.
Ah, memories.
Earlier today, in the VEHICLES section, there was a topic titled "2016 Tacoma: You had 10 years to design this?"
And the OP asked, "If you wanted to buy a new midsize truck why would you not be on a Chevy or GMC lot?"
Well there's your answer.
I understand it's an older S-10, blah, blah, blah; but after seeing the junk they built back then and the way the dealers/corporate treated customers with legitimate gripes, they lost me as a customer. I'll pay more for something else.
Back to oil filter talk.
Fram PH3980 on my 1997 Chevy S10.
I don't miss that truck. The week after I bought it home it needed $1100 in transmission work. A month later it needed an alternator. A month later it needed oil cooler lines to the tune of almost $400. The A/C dying was the last straw.
Ah, memories.
Earlier today, in the VEHICLES section, there was a topic titled "2016 Tacoma: You had 10 years to design this?"
And the OP asked, "If you wanted to buy a new midsize truck why would you not be on a Chevy or GMC lot?"
Well there's your answer.
I understand it's an older S-10, blah, blah, blah; but after seeing the junk they built back then and the way the dealers/corporate treated customers with legitimate gripes, they lost me as a customer. I'll pay more for something else.
Back to oil filter talk.
Originally Posted By: KzMitch
Originally Posted By: JRed
Fram PH3980 on my 1997 Chevy S10.
I don't miss that truck. The week after I bought it home it needed $1100 in transmission work. A month later it needed an alternator. A month later it needed oil cooler lines to the tune of almost $400. The A/C dying was the last straw.
Ah, memories.
Earlier today, in the VEHICLES section, there was a topic titled "2016 Tacoma: You had 10 years to design this?"
And the OP asked, "If you wanted to buy a new midsize truck why would you not be on a Chevy or GMC lot?"
Well there's your answer.
I understand it's an older S-10, blah, blah, blah; but after seeing the junk they built back then and the way the dealers/corporate treated customers with legitimate gripes, they lost me as a customer. I'll pay more for something else.
Back to oil filter talk.
I worked for a company that had a fleet of 98-2003 S-10s that were extremely solid and had a very low rate of repair. Brakes and tires to 150k, a repair or two after would take them to 200k and by that time the body was so dented and scratched it was time to replace them.
Originally Posted By: JRed
Fram PH3980 on my 1997 Chevy S10.
I don't miss that truck. The week after I bought it home it needed $1100 in transmission work. A month later it needed an alternator. A month later it needed oil cooler lines to the tune of almost $400. The A/C dying was the last straw.
Ah, memories.
Earlier today, in the VEHICLES section, there was a topic titled "2016 Tacoma: You had 10 years to design this?"
And the OP asked, "If you wanted to buy a new midsize truck why would you not be on a Chevy or GMC lot?"
Well there's your answer.
I understand it's an older S-10, blah, blah, blah; but after seeing the junk they built back then and the way the dealers/corporate treated customers with legitimate gripes, they lost me as a customer. I'll pay more for something else.
Back to oil filter talk.
I worked for a company that had a fleet of 98-2003 S-10s that were extremely solid and had a very low rate of repair. Brakes and tires to 150k, a repair or two after would take them to 200k and by that time the body was so dented and scratched it was time to replace them.
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