Looking for a New Oil Filter

What are louvers in an oil filter?
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Using what has worked well is a good choice. Baldwin is fine, the adbv may be a nitrile, but made by Parker. Baldwin owns Parker or the other way around. They know what they are doing. China and Vietnam are opposed to our democracy, openly so. For your car with bypass in the block, any of the USA made filters should work fine.
I agree about China as an enemy, but Vietnam has come around some since the bad old days of ‘74 & earlier-I’m not even sure they’re considered a true communist country anymore, they’re somewhat a US ally. Unfortunately PG makes filters in both countries…
 
I have learned that VAFI (Vietnam Advanced Filtration Inc) (or AFI for short) is a Vietnamese company (that makes Premium Guard, Valvoline, and a bunch of autostores housebrand filters). VAFI has manufacturing factories in Vietnam & China.

Link to VAFI

I've got no beef with Vietnam. The Vietnam/USA undeclared war was a long time ago. The Vietnamese want to repair relations with USA. In the years after the Vietnam/USA war, China invaded Vietnam and there was a Vietnam/China undeclared war that lasted several years. The Chinese could not defeat Vietnam and eventually the Chinese gave up and went home. The Vietnamese have been invaded by Mongols, France, Japan, USA, Russia, and China. Vietnam is the only nation on earth that's been invaded by multiple superpowers over last 600 years and never been defeated in the longterm by anyone. That's worthy of respect, IMO.

Vietnam's undeclared war with China (which Vietnam won) is more recent than the war between V & USA. The Vietnames civilians and gov like and trust the USA a lot more than China.

Due to politics & economics, Vietnam is now a competitor to China and is trying to become a friend to USA. It's likely that eventually VAFI will make all its filters in Vietnam and none in China because Viet/Chinese relations are souring again as Viet becomes closer to USA. Part of that is Vietnam knows China wants to take over Asia and knows the USA cab be a powerful trading partner and that the USA might become a military ally to help them resist China.

Vietnam has become a USA trading partner and is migrating towards being an ally against China. The Vietnamese have no bad intentions towards USA and haven't for decades. China on the other hand, is a growing enemy of Vietnam, South Korea, Asia in general, and of the USA.

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Pentius appears to me to be a USA & South Korean venture. http://pentiusautoparts.com/about/
 
P.S. - China has been behaving as an enemy since we began treating them as an enemy around 2016-2019. Trump & Biden both antagonized China needlessly. Pelosi infuriated China needlessly. So our currently terrible relationship with China is partly our own government's fault, and partly China's fault too.

War isn't profitable for anyone. Peace and fair trade is best for everyone, but try telling that to politicians.
 
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Before looking for any new filters I need to figure which existing to use next. Full synthetic like Old Ultra and Boss can continue to wait and the fibers won’t deteriorate. The Red Puro I just got probably should go next.
If I ever get to the end of the filters I have then I can “look for a new filter.”
 
Before looking for any new filters I need to figure which existing to use next. Full synthetic like Old Ultra and Boss can continue to wait and the fibers won’t deteriorate. The Red Puro I just got probably should go next.
If I ever get to the end of the filters I have then I can “look for a new filter.”
I don't like to order too far ahead and store things because things can get lost, stolen, or deteriorate in storage, or something new and better might come out.
 
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