fl820s cut open

[robo339]

Got this of a family members 2011 5.4 f150 has approximately 5k oil used was motorcraft 5w20 synblend this truck is severely short tripped it's a little under 2 miles to her work 4times a day and city miles mostly occasional trip 30 miles to Sam's Club filter looks really good no tears pleats are kind of sloppy

 

[53' Stude]

Lil wavy due to condensation or short trips. MC filters most of time look ok. Thanks for cut and post sir ;-)

 

[Dallas69]

Looks good to me.
I really like MC filters.

 

[robo339]

Only thing I did notice is that the can is extremely thin/flimsy

 

[Oregoonian]

IMO, MC Filters might be the best buy for the buck in low-priced filters.

With a clean engine, the MC's should be able to do 7500 OCI's

 

[KCJeep]

I agree tremendous value filters and Puro's troubles have not carried over to MC for the most part.

 

[Y_K]

Originally Posted By: Oregoonian
With a clean engine, the MC's should be able to do 7500 OCI's


Verified with Ford and Mobil, and after that ran this filter for 15k miles for over a million miles when I owned my towncar business. In fact, an Exxon engineer advised to keep this one, when I called and asked why their database listed this filter instead of M1-210. Mine was mostly highway miles operation though..

 

[crazyoildude]

Still made by purolater so i don't get them anymore for the shop..

 

[RazorsEdge]

Our Crown Vic has used this oil filter for every oil change.It currently has 290,000 miles and never an issue.

 

[mjoekingz28]

Originally Posted By: crazyoildude
Still made by purolater so i don't get them anymore for the shop..


Pure oil now.
Pure oil later.
PUROLAT-O-R

Get it right!

 

[tig1]

Originally Posted By: Oregoonian
IMO, MC Filters might be the best buy for the buck in low-priced filters.

With a clean engine, the MC's should be able to do 7500 OCI's


I do 10K OCIs with MC filters. Never a problem.

 

[robo339]

The cartridges always look better

 

[crazyoildude]

they have to everyone sees them..For years some oil filter companies hid in the can where few bothered to cut them open and even if they found something bad who would know today there is the internet and now everyone knows.. Im sure the oil filter companies don't like that..lol

 

[Sayjac]

Quote:
The cartridges always look better

Perhaps for the MC that may be true, though as noted above the MC spin ons have generally looked pretty good.

As for some other manufacturer's cartridges linked, not so much.

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3434977/Fram_Ultra_FAILURE

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3411091/1

 

[Scum_Frog]

For the price and performance what is there not to like about MC filters?

 

[robo339]

Imagine that both failures you posted were fram coincidence maybe?

 

[Sayjac]

'In my observation' on this board even including ecotec cartridges squished/twisted from many different brands (mostly aesthetics), the two cartridge anecdotes linked, worst complete fails I've seen posted. That would as compared to the spin ons from same manufacturer, which was the assertion. Coincidence?