What happened to Fram oil filters?
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Junk how? Have you seen failures or has the efficiency been reduced?
Are you trolling? or what are you talking about?
You mean the Ultra used to be tops? Yes, BITOG loved the Ultras until they got "cheapened" to a dual layer synthetic-cellulose filter without metal reinforcement.
OCOD has always been OCOD. Hated by people that deemed cardboard endcaps to be inferior to metal endcaps.
Fram filters are the only brand I can easily get locally that don't let the fjcruiser timing chain rattle.
Click bait, and as expected he's snagged a few of us.
They are still tops in Maryland, I am selling 1000 oil filters everyday!
The end caps are not cardboard.
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Gosh, I just bought a few OCODs for my Toyota and Honda. Fortunately I still have a Supertech and Hengst in line ahead of them, respectively. Else I may be in for some inferior filtering and the cars would go to the boneyard a few 100k miles early...
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Where's Dave ?
Dave’s not here, man.
It's some sort of paper/ felt like stuff. Seems to work fine.
We have investigated our end caps and found we did nothing wrong.
I honestly have no problem with Fram's end caps. There definition is "engineered Fiber" - so likely cellulose treated with something. I still prefer metal myself.
Borrowing a term, it looks like another seagull post.
A kindler, gentler version of a drive-by.
Some filters have no end caps at all. Just depends on the manufacturer. I’m sure the fiber end caps do the job well.
