OEM Honda vs. SuperTech Air Filters

[cheesepuffs2]

Removed PUROLATOR and installed HONDA Genuine engine air filter for the '13 FIT . .

Excellent choice.

 

[BaronHK]

Holy cow, 1.5 quarts of fuel in the oil is unreal.

Oh that's nothing. My mom bought a Volkswagen Rabbit in the 1980s that had this horrible primitive German fuel injection system, and it leaked so much fuel into the oil that the crankcase overflowed and caught the car on fire.

My Dad told her what a horrible piece of garbage the Volkswagen was and not to go from Indiana to Arkansas in it, so she jumped in it anyway and it burned up in Champaign, Illinois.

The German alleged cars have always been temperamental at best. The only reason to have one is to lose a fortune and some of them are fast until they're 3 years old and breaking down a lot.

 

[AKhan87]

Did your WalMart have the Fram air filter as an option as well? Did you happen to look at how many pleats it had... and how its construction looked in comparison?

I'm smack dab in the middle of the agricultural area of Illinois, and the air filters in my trucks don't even get that dirty even after 5 years and 40,000 miles of use.

exactly, this is why I am confused, 11,000 miles? I have never seen an air filter that dirty, I easily drive 30k or more miles per year, 90% of these miles are from road trips, and my air filters don't even look like that at 60k miles...

Note: I have been driving to southern California for the past 2.5 years (Irvine, CA area) and possibly driven 1.5k miles while I am there, again my air filters don't look like that.

I almost always use OEM Toyota air filters in my cars unless the Denso version is cheaper.

it must be from poor air quality or smoke.

 

[Virtuoso]

Somewhat recently changed the factory air filter on our '24 CR-V with a new Honda filter. The one that came out looked similar to the one OP posted - ours had 32k miles though. Still the dirtiest 32k filter I've ever removed.

The new Honda filter has a nice, lightly oiled media witch is probably trapping a lot of crap at the surface first (maybe?) witch would explain the appearance. Either way it looks to have done the job quite well.

 

[The Critic]

The new Honda filter has a nice, lightly oiled media witch is probably trapping a lot of crap at the surface first (maybe?) witch would explain the appearance.

Precisely.

 

[MetalSlug]

How much was the Honda air filter compare to fram ultra

 

[Virtuoso]

How much was the Honda air filter compare to fram ultra

I don't know how much the Fram Ultra would be, but the filter I bought from Honda at the parts counter was $22.42.