Rural King supposedly replacing Prime Guard with Wix.

[Bailey28]

The PrimeGuard filters have disappeared from the shelf at Rural King in Gainesville Fl. Gone. Filled with Wix and Fram.. The PrimeGuards are not even in a clearance section either. They probably went into the dumpster behind the store.

On a different note, Dollar General has a shelf full of PrimeGuard filters now. The Newberry road store in Jonesville has them. They are more than $1.99 though.

 

[Hootbro]

They probably went into the dumpster behind the store.

I would be surprised if they went into the dumpster. Generally in a reset if the stores themselves do not clearance them, the incoming brand takes the old brand stock inventory and then wholesales them out to secondary market that is usually the Rock Auto clearance items and certain Ebay sellers that deals in such type of inventory.

 

[Bailey28]

Funny, that is exactly how the store in Jonesville is set up!

 

[MuzzleFlash40]

It happened here, I bought the last 3 prime guards for the Buick they had. Wix is now on the shelves.

 

[Elkins45]

I figure talk is cheap. If we complain about overseas manufacturing taking over, then do our small part in not letting it.

The Japanese automakers didn't explode their share of the US market in the 1970's because Americans started hating America. They did it because the American automakers thought they had a captive customer base they could abuse and ignore at will. I also want to support American manufacturing but not at the expense of my engine.

Quality comes well before country of origin on my list of purchase considerations.

 

[Fair enough]

The Japanese automakers didn't explode their share of the US market in the 1970's because Americans started hating America. They did it because the American automakers thought they had a captive customer base they could abuse and ignore at will. I also want to support American manufacturing but not at the expense of my engine.

Quality comes well before country of origin on my list of purchase considerations.

No one said anything about hating America is buying a Chinese oil filter or a Japanese car. That’s exaggeration. We also bought vw bugs in large quantities. Volvos, and others. Europe and Japan liked smaller cars generally ahead of the US. It’s a testament to our people’s fairness to others, then, that we bought cars from two countries who we were just at war with. One attacked our country directly.
There are still adequate USA choices in oil filters. Oil filters won’t be made in USA unless people continue to buy them.

 

[Glenda W.]

If people continue to support poor QC and manufacturing these mega conglomerates will never change unfortunately. I suspect they intend to move manufacturing outside the US eventually to make even more money….