Right now all my Fram Extra Guards at my Walmart are rocking black nitrile? adbv's
Come to Louisville they are all orange silicone..
Of the two sizes I use, they've been silicone for a couple of years.
Same here I use a 7317 and they are orange...
I will say that it's a great filter but with shipping it costs more than a Fram Ultra, hence not the best bang for your buck. It's $8.61 on RockAuto once you calculate shipping, and it's $8.99 on Amazon prime.
If I could find one for my application/cross while being under 4.25” for vertical fitment, I would. Gave up looking for that unicorn, though.
Can you tell me more about fiber end caps being a bonus? Not sarcasm.
Nothing really deep other than they are attached better to the filter element than a metal cap. Other than a fully synthetic filter it's really not necessary to have metal end caps although many people look at them as better. I actually prefer the Toyota/Denso style where there is no end cap as that seems best. But each his own.
This is interesting to me, although I'm not familiar with the Toyota/Denso design. After considering all my options, I was considering the Ultra, despite not being the best value, because it has metal end caps. If I knew the Tough Guard, with it's fiber end caps, could hold up to a 1 year OCI for 5,000 miles, I'd go that route.
On filters with metal caps there's so much more glue, it's like the end cap is really a big hunk of glue and the metal is just there to hold it while it cures, with a metal end cap there's more room for error with excess glue slopped on the pleats or chunks of glue that have came loose. Also the carboard caps theoretically give the media more capacity to buffer moisture contamination before the media gets too saturated and fails.
