W.C.W. : New FRAM Endurance FE10575 + AMSOIL EA017 cut open
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For every 20 filters, FRAM saves enough material to manufacture an extra filter over AMSOIL. Yes, Champion makes both of these.
There may be a valid reason besides "too cheap" to not use a metal crimped seam. Maybe gluing the seam provides a better seal than a metal crimp would on that wire-backed media design, and adding a metal crimp to an already glued seam may not be necessary.
The seam almost looks like it's "heat fused" together. Until I see evidence that the seam fails in use, I wouldn't be worried about it. I'm sure the engineers found it is robust enough on a filter that's rated to go up to 25K miles.
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I was looking my FE over and it does look identical to an amsoil filter gona stock up on these while the going is good I guess
