K&N #152 oil filter fail.

[Chris142]

Picked up 2 of these a few months back when advanced auto had everything on clearance.

Went to pull this one out of the box and it crumbled in my hand.

The paper is very brittle. The 2nd one I pulled out of the box seemed brittle too but I didn't push on it too hard as I had to use it.

 

[jetman]

 

[Gravity]

Country of origin?

 

[Chris142]

Country of origin?

No markings

 

[Glenda W.]

Not very confidence inspiring…

 

[Chris142]

Country of origin?

On the box

 

[Delta1]

Wow, that filter must be 20 years old, at least I hope it is....

 

[fantastic]

Are you real muscular? One too many ugga bugga's on the media & go crunch?
What to do now?

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Chris, I wouldn't use the other one. Over-resined Thai filters. Aged and brittle. Uggh.
I had a spate of these two decades ago with otherwise decent looking suzuki and toyota service parts (spin ons).
The reason I joined BITOG. I made a post basically stating "What is going on with oil filters?" I perform a simple oil change and now the timing chain is grinding away, the VVTi is rattling like can of marbles. What I got back was: "It's just you", "You must have done something wrong", "With a positive displacement oil pump, you will have adequate pressure" or just crickets. Chirp chirp.

Hope you can get your money back. If they give you the, "All clearance sales are final", I would not think that should apply to defective parts.

 

[Dave Hess]

Yeah, very old filter.

With my old traditional can oil filters, I add oil half way so the element doesn’t get dry and brittle.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Any kind of date code on the end caps?

 

[ZeeOSix]

Chris, I wouldn't use the other one. Over-resined Thai filters. Aged and brittle. Uggh.
I had a spate of these two decades ago with otherwise decent looking suzuki and toyota service parts (spin ons).
The reason I joined BITOG. I made a post basically stating "What is going on with oil filters?" I perform a simple oil change and now the timing chain is grinding away, the VVTi is rattling like can of marbles. What I got back was: "It's just you", "You must have done something wrong", "With a positive displacement oil pump, you will have adequate pressure" or just crickets. Chirp chirp.

That VVTi noise happened with Suzuki and Toyota OEM filters? Was it just at start-up, or always rattling? Did you cut them open to look for problems?

 

[Chris142]

Chris, I wouldn't use the other one. Over-resined Thai filters. Aged and brittle. Uggh.
I had a spate of these two decades ago with otherwise decent looking suzuki and toyota service parts (spin ons).
The reason I joined BITOG. I made a post basically stating "What is going on with oil filters?" I perform a simple oil change and now the timing chain is grinding away, the VVTi is rattling like can of marbles. What I got back was: "It's just you", "You must have done something wrong", "With a positive displacement oil pump, you will have adequate pressure" or just crickets. Chirp chirp.

Hope you can get your money back. If they give you the, "All clearance sales are final", I would not think that should apply to defective parts.

Advanced closed all stores here. No returns

 

[Chris142]

Any kind of date code on the end caps?

Not that I can see

 

[Chevyc10]

Contact K&N they will probably replace them for you. I expect they are very old. I purchased clearance oil from AAP and it was several years old. Original Price too high no one would buy it, much cheaper at Walmart and Amazon,

 

[Chris142]

Contact K&N they will probably replace them for you. I expect they are very old. I purchased clearance oil from AAP and it was several years old. Original Price too high no one would buy it, much cheaper at Walmart and Amazon,

I called today. The lady on the phone was very helpful. Wanted pics so I sent them to her. Supposed to be sending out replacements.