Originally Posted By: HerrStig
Originally Posted By: quint
They dont even take that long. When the "tearolator" scare first started, I pulled the one off my Corolla that had been there a few weeks at the most. Maybe a few hundred miles? Already had a significant tear in the usual place. My neighbor had a Corolla as well and had stockpiled a few of these he had gotten on sale, and when he traded it in on his Telsa (hows that for an upgrade?!) he pulled in my driveway and handed me three that he hadnt used yet. I talked to him for a bit, thanked him for the filters, and as soon as he pulled out and headed home I walked up my driveway, into the garage, and the filters went "ka-chunk..ka-chunk..ka-chunk" as I underhanded them one at a time right into the garbage can in the corner.
I wouldnt bother with these filters, there is clearly a quality issue.
You throw three away without cutting them and then tell us there's a "quality issue" with them? THat's real "ka chunk" science.
Being that, after searching, I could find an extreme lack of threads where someone cut open an unused Purolator filter and found tears in the media, versus a veritable overabundance of threads, on this forum and MANY others, where someone cut open a USED Purolator filter and found torn media, it would be obvious TO SOME PEOPLE when exactly the issue with quality comes into play.
Should I continue with this explanation, or do you get it now? I can type slower if you need time to let things sink in a bit.