Originally Posted By: Hethaerto
So, a synthetic oil filter is a filter with some sort of synthetic media inside(as opposed to a natural element like cotton or paper), or simply a marketing word aimed at synthetic oil users who "must have the best"?
The reason I ask is that the Purolator PureOne filter apparently filters and flows better than the Mobil1 synthetic oil filter, yet the PureOne is not marketed as a synthetic oil filter, just an oil filter.
To be clear, any filter can be used with synthetic oil. And yes, there are oil filters made with synthetic filtering media, but that doesn't mean you have to run synthetic oil with them.
It's all a play on words by the marketing guys. They say a filter is "syntactic oil compatible" because they expect that people running full synthetic oil will have long OCIs (10K+), and as such their filter is also able to go long OCIs along with the synthetic oil.
You can run any filter with any oil as long as you take heed on the correct OCI for each.