This one came off the Highlander today. It filtered Pennzoil Platinum HM 0w20; in went another jug of the same, and the Denso filter (90915YZZD1).
I picked the 3600 (oversized) for this car and the Sienna in my sig, because a lot of the OEM size frams (x3614) don't look so good, and have tears or wavy pleats. The 3600 has been much more likely to have straight pleats, and appears to me to have more pleats than the 3614.
Well this one didn't look bad for 5000 miles, but given that I want to run oil filters for 10K miles from here on out, the pleats right by the seam looked a bit suspect. I don't know how they would have looked in another 5000 miles, but this is enough to steer me to use the Densos for 10K mi FCIs from here on out.
Fram date code: A12803 = 280th day of 2021, so Oct 7, 2021
ADV was nice and supple, as expected.
Can't necessarily tell, but I moved the filter around in my hand, when taking the pics, to get all 360 degrees of the filter media. Apart from the seams, as you can see, the pleats were very tight.
The end caps were fine, and firmly attached to the media.
I took two closeups of the place by the seam, where the pleats are attached to the end caps. There was no tearing at all, or anything that looked like it might tear in the near future.
Anyways, here they go:
I picked the 3600 (oversized) for this car and the Sienna in my sig, because a lot of the OEM size frams (x3614) don't look so good, and have tears or wavy pleats. The 3600 has been much more likely to have straight pleats, and appears to me to have more pleats than the 3614.
Well this one didn't look bad for 5000 miles, but given that I want to run oil filters for 10K miles from here on out, the pleats right by the seam looked a bit suspect. I don't know how they would have looked in another 5000 miles, but this is enough to steer me to use the Densos for 10K mi FCIs from here on out.
Fram date code: A12803 = 280th day of 2021, so Oct 7, 2021
ADV was nice and supple, as expected.
Can't necessarily tell, but I moved the filter around in my hand, when taking the pics, to get all 360 degrees of the filter media. Apart from the seams, as you can see, the pleats were very tight.
The end caps were fine, and firmly attached to the media.
I took two closeups of the place by the seam, where the pleats are attached to the end caps. There was no tearing at all, or anything that looked like it might tear in the near future.
Anyways, here they go:
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