No more Fresh Breeze. It’s now TrueAir with “N95 efficiency”. Most parts are assembled in the US, some are made in China like the Subaru filters.
Looks like Walmart is carrying a different Fram CAF line.
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Wow, "N95 efficiency", that will make me want to run out and buy one. /s
I believe I looked at one briefly a few days ago but didn't notice the efficiency tout. Media looked blue-ish in color. Thinking more, it had an extra closed pleat seal at CAF ends where it fits in the frame. Never seen that before in a CAF.
Related, I wanted to look at the Super Tech AFs and CAFs as I had never seen them in person. Unfortunately WM has them in sealed boxes, so only pulling back a serrated pull strip will open box. I wouldn't buy without looking at filter, but I also wouldn't pull zip strip just to look. That said, I get the reason for WM feeling the need to use the seal strip.
As for topic Fram, efficiency tout seems/reads like a gimmick 'imo'. Personally, I've always just used the least expensive CAFs most similar to the standard oem I can find. Last purchase, several standard Carquest CAFs from AAP using 25% off online code. For what they are, I've long thought they are over priced. My.02
I believe I looked at one briefly a few days ago but didn't notice the efficiency tout. Media looked blue-ish in color. Thinking more, it had an extra closed pleat seal at CAF ends where it fits in the frame. Never seen that before in a CAF.
Related, I wanted to look at the Super Tech AFs and CAFs as I had never seen them in person. Unfortunately WM has them in sealed boxes, so only pulling back a serrated pull strip will open box. I wouldn't buy without looking at filter, but I also wouldn't pull zip strip just to look. That said, I get the reason for WM feeling the need to use the seal strip.
As for topic Fram, efficiency tout seems/reads like a gimmick 'imo'. Personally, I've always just used the least expensive CAFs most similar to the standard oem I can find. Last purchase, several standard Carquest CAFs from AAP using 25% off online code. For what they are, I've long thought they are over priced. My.02
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Gimmick
Big time, they are cashing in on the current situation nothing more. This caters to the lets just say folks with a couple of fries short of a happy meal who drive around by themselves in their own car wearing a mask or two.
This crap is going to get worse, once you scare someone half to death its hard to roll that back and stuff like this is the result. Now it has turned into a money maker, they wont stop terrorizing people for another 10 years.
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If most of them are made in the US, that's definitely an upgrade, since all the Fresh Breezes are made in China 
If the TrueAir is like the Bosch HEPA filter, it will be very restrictive.
If the TrueAir is like the Bosch HEPA filter, it will be very restrictive.
As I was typing my previous post here, I was reminded of another Fram marketing move to cash in on a trend, instead with oil filters. At the same time Teflon/PTFE was being marketed as an engine additive in Slick 50, Fram came out with an oil filter, the Double Guard. The media of the DG was infused/soaked with PTFE/Teflon. The specific efficiency spec on TA box seems to be a similar type marketing move. I guess the TA is PT Barnum approved though.
Only if you keep the windows closed especially late at night when it comes out.I
I guess that means that I can ride around in my car now, without wearing a mask.
I recall the Tough Guard oil filter being a truck filter then morphing into a mid line generic auto filter.
Rock Auto is blowing out the Fresh Breeze filters. ( No pun intended).
Yep - these guys are $20. I ordered a Purolator One for $14 after a coupon on Amazon. I might as well get the Puro(US-made by either M+H or Freudenberg) or OEM from now on.
It wasn’t soaked media, but there was a “pill” in the center tube that was made from Teflon and other chemicals in a gel. The idea was that filtered oil would wash over the gel and slowly dissolve.
Coolant filters on trucks use a similar principle but they are packed with SCA pellets in the center tube.
So FRAM via Wally World is getting into the Mann Frecious Plus type filter arena (as well as Purolator Boss)
Tesla was first to offer HEPA with “bio-secure” filtration as an option outside of buying an armored car or a Mercedes S-Guard/BMW 7er Protection.
Toyota was offering Sharp’s Plasmacluster ionizer as an option on the Camry a while ago and UV-C sanitizers standard on the ultra-luxury trim of the Lexus LS. The UV-C bulb was in the rear AC unit.
it seems like N95 level filtration is cheaper compromise than adding in ionizers or UV-C in the HVAC blower unit. And it does give customers some peace of mind.
When what comes out?
Just overpaid ($20) for one of these Fram filters for my Buick. Never again. The media seemed Okay, however... plastic parts are clipped-on and fall off during initialization.
They also have the air flow pointing the wrong direction. Waaaaayyy overpriced. Next time it's Rock Auto for something less expensive and better made.
They also have the air flow pointing the wrong direction. Waaaaayyy overpriced. Next time it's Rock Auto for something less expensive and better made.
Didn't you know...CAF stands for Corona Air Filter.I
I guess that means that I can ride around in my car now, without wearing a mask.
