Originally Posted By: goodtimes
Motorking, the Fram tech person, said something about the steel end caps are needed to secure the stainless steel screen. It isn't just steel mesh, stainless is much better. There are pictures of the Ultra with the element debonding from a composite end cap on a cartridge filter. Whether that is common or a fluke who knows. I definitely am sold on them for my cars I maintain, until I find a reason not to be sold on them. There are other good filters, but not for the price,features and design I don't think.
Yep the cartridges don't hold up as well as the spin on because they don't have this deep well of adhesive.
On a side note I never have issues with the ecotech Ultras I use in my friends cobalt for two OLM runs per filter. I'm going to be posting the pics of that second run soon whenever we change the oil, it's been at 0% all month on this second OcI
Motorking, the Fram tech person, said something about the steel end caps are needed to secure the stainless steel screen. It isn't just steel mesh, stainless is much better. There are pictures of the Ultra with the element debonding from a composite end cap on a cartridge filter. Whether that is common or a fluke who knows. I definitely am sold on them for my cars I maintain, until I find a reason not to be sold on them. There are other good filters, but not for the price,features and design I don't think.
Yep the cartridges don't hold up as well as the spin on because they don't have this deep well of adhesive.
On a side note I never have issues with the ecotech Ultras I use in my friends cobalt for two OLM runs per filter. I'm going to be posting the pics of that second run soon whenever we change the oil, it's been at 0% all month on this second OcI