I don't think there was any redesign, the Ultra's basic design has been the same for many years. Only thing that's changed is it went from 15K to 20K max use rating, and the media might not have even changed when that hapoened.
I'm sure you'll latch on to this one real tight since you jump on every opportunity to bad mouth Fram. You don't bad mouth any other filter brands when they show problems like you do Fram, it's blantenty obvious. I'm sure you will link to this thread any time another brand of filter shows any kind of problem.Tell me, where are the pics of ANY other brand oil filter missing the anti drain valve, and it is inside the engine? The Fram valve is already 1/3 of the way into the center tube from the design. Others are not at all inside the center tube. That makes a difference. You want it to be others do it too, but it isn’t that way. You will defend Fram like you are hired to do it.
As for liability it can’t be shown it left the factory like this. Anyone handling it after could be responsible. Fram could be responsible due to design defect that produces rattling filters if dropped, but lawyers are very expensive to convince the judge. Not that there is a judge or ever will be. It will boil down to good will and get rid of more bad advertising. People reading this already out in internet land may say no more Fram for me. So it needs to get swept under the rug ASAP. So get to sweeping.
Ryco Syntec are the goods down here..
They are like $20+ as well. I'm a silver K&N man till something bad happens.
Fair enough, they (ryco) are always on special somewhere at one of the big three. I personally like their 99.8% efficiency at 20microns
Yea they are a great filter but I do short OCI anyway. @25
Trico acquired Fram in March 2019 according to this
What the fram...???
