Originally Posted By: tommygunn
Originally Posted By: 901Memphis
Originally Posted By: tommygunn
Originally Posted By: Motorking
OCOD!
Do you know that FRAM employs over 3500 well paid workers and engineers in Ohio and Illinois?
Every time you or anyone else causes us to lose a sale because you refer to our product as OCOD, somebody may lose their job. I could really wrap my arms around this if there were any truth whatsoever to the story. We make over 320 million filters per year. We are a major OE supplier with many OE's using our designs and now that the patent has expired, many other filter companies doing the same. We stand behind our product 110%. If we fail and engine due to manufacturing issue, we buy it. We get letters every day from users with 500k, 600k and even 720k on an Infinity J20 all using the nefarious OCOD. Just asking for this to go away, it is hurting our business and lets competitors point to internet anecdotes as proof of our quality. The only proof is in oil analysis and we always come out of that smelling like a rose.
You, sir, are mistaken.
People call it OCOD because you guys deliver a subpar product. That's what makes you lose sales.
Subpar compared to the classics that have gaping holes?
Subpar compared to everything else. Those classics with gaping holes
are likely Frams.
Fram filters are so bad that they are actually illegal in the European Union and banned from import as each and every spare part sold in the EU has to guarantee that it is as good as the original part by law, that's why all European Fram filters are made in Poland by Sogefi to a much higher standard than the OCOD.
Now this is not the EU where they have law that taxes your feet and your toes, too, but luckily this is America where you can do whatever the [censored] you want in freedom.
However, the founding fathers believed in a right to pursue happiness, and with that also goes at least the requirement that nobody interferes with your right to pursue of happiness as well. Now you can do the bare minimum and just not interfere, or you can be a nice guy, go the extra mile, actually help your fellow men in their pursuit of happiness.
This thing looks cheap and ugly, too, like something that barely gets the job done and not like something that wants to aid me in my pursuit of happiness.
This one on the other hand is, besides being as good as Mann, Mahle and the OEM part anyways by law (and is actually, the OEM part on all French cars and Maseratis as well as some Fiats and Ferraris), also a work of art, beautiful in its own regard and gorgeous to look at. Something that makes you look forward to work with as its beauty gives you pleasure every time you take it out and put it on a car.
And for that, I like to aid them in their pursuit of happiness too, and buy their filter. Because it goes the extra mile
for me. And that in and of itself is something that makes me happy.
Does Fram go the extra mile for us, or is Fram a company that just does the bare minimum and instead of hiring engineers to work on a nicer filter, hires a guy who blathers about workers in Ohio and Illinois (Wix has them too, your know. So does Purolator. And Champion Labs) and how the OCOD lasts a trillion miles on some Japanese ricecooker
but only if you replace it twice a week or every 500mi, whichever comes first?
At least that's my metaphysics of industrial design. *tips his head and puts a wheat straw into his mouth*
If you're going to post pics at least be fair. Why post the seam side of the Fram and the non-seam side of the fancy French filter? lol
BTW, does the spring on the French filter have a groove to sit in? Pull the filter out of the can, show us the whole filter for review. It is pretty, but is it functional?