What happened to K&N oil filters?

[Stewie]

Originally Posted By: SilverC6
Originally Posted By: Stewie
Originally Posted By: chainblu
I saw somewhere that Walmart was going to start selling K&N air and oil filters. Maybe with the move to overseas production, they can meet WM's paying price.


If they go to WM they will prob go out of business, they can't compete with fram's price



FRAM's are cheap but I haven't noticed them being inexpensive.



Have you seen K&N prices?

$18-$20 for Synthetic media

 

[CrawfishTails]

Originally Posted By: Stewie
Have you seen K&N prices? $18-$20 for Synthetic media

K&N doesn't use any synthetic media as far as I've ever seen. (ONLY in their diesel heavy duty truck engine types, not in any automotive type.)

 

[David1]

Originally Posted By: Stewie
Originally Posted By: wemay
Made in Korea does not equal made in China to me. They are still good filters but yes, a little overpriced for the avg consumer. I like them.

BTW, K&N and Mobil1 are both made by Champion Labs and pretty much the same filter, unless there's been a change recently.


Where were you!?!?!

They moved overseas for a while now no champs lab meaning NO USA
I believe only M1 is still with champs lab


they are made in mexico now.

 

[Stewie]

Originally Posted By: David1
Originally Posted By: Stewie
Originally Posted By: wemay
Made in Korea does not equal made in China to me. They are still good filters but yes, a little overpriced for the avg consumer. I like them.

BTW, K&N and Mobil1 are both made by Champion Labs and pretty much the same filter, unless there's been a change recently.


Where were you!?!?!

They moved overseas for a while now no champs lab meaning NO USA
I believe only M1 is still with champs lab


they are made in mexico now.


Depends on your stock, most are still China & Korea


Originally Posted By: CrawfishTails
Originally Posted By: Stewie
Have you seen K&N prices? $18-$20 for Synthetic media

K&N doesn't use any synthetic media as far as I've ever seen. (ONLY in their diesel heavy duty truck engine types, not in any automotive type.)


High performance series advertises synthetic media

http://www.knfilters.com/wrenchoff_oilfilter.htm

 

[Mike3838]

Apparently just bc they are made in mexico they suck without much reason.

 

[bullwinkle]

Originally Posted By: Stewie
Originally Posted By: David1
Originally Posted By: Stewie
Originally Posted By: wemay
Made in Korea does not equal made in China to me. They are still good filters but yes, a little overpriced for the avg consumer. I like them.

BTW, K&N and Mobil1 are both made by Champion Labs and pretty much the same filter, unless there's been a change recently.


Where were you!?!?!

They moved overseas for a while now no champs lab meaning NO USA
I believe only M1 is still with champs lab


they are made in mexico now.


Depends on your stock, most are still China & Korea


Originally Posted By: CrawfishTails
Originally Posted By: Stewie
Have you seen K&N prices? $18-$20 for Synthetic media

K&N doesn't use any synthetic media as far as I've ever seen. (ONLY in their diesel heavy duty truck engine types, not in any automotive type.)


High performance series advertises synthetic media

http://www.knfilters.com/wrenchoff_oilfilter.htm
Looks like powersports wrench-off only, for synthetic media. I wasn't really impressed with them when Champ built them-they reminded me of a Mobil 1 filter with a nut on them-now that they're like a Driveworks at TRIPLE the price-can't believe they sell any at all.

 

[DuckRyder]

Originally Posted By: Mike3838
Apparently just bc they are made in mexico they suck without much reason.


What the heck happened to the other thread?

I think the issue is not so much "quality" as "value". They seem very expensive what what they are, there seems to be little technical information on the website.

 

[CrawfishTails]

Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
Looks like powersports wrench-off only, for synthetic media. I wasn't really impressed with them when Champ built them-they reminded me of a Mobil 1 filter with a nut on them-now that they're like a Driveworks at TRIPLE the price-can't believe they sell any at all.


Yep, I noticed that too, they put synthetic media in Powersports applications, NOT automotive. They use synthetic media in heavy duty truck diesels too. Not automotive applications.

 

[Stewie]

Originally Posted By: Stewie
Originally Posted By: David1
Originally Posted By: Stewie
Originally Posted By: wemay
Made in Korea does not equal made in China to me. They are still good filters but yes, a little overpriced for the avg consumer. I like them.

BTW, K&N and Mobil1 are both made by Champion Labs and pretty much the same filter, unless there's been a change recently.


Where were you!?!?!

They moved overseas for a while now no champs lab meaning NO USA
I believe only M1 is still with champs lab


they are made in mexico now.


Depends on your stock, most are still China & Korea


Originally Posted By: CrawfishTails
Originally Posted By: Stewie
Have you seen K&N prices? $18-$20 for Synthetic media

K&N doesn't use any synthetic media as far as I've ever seen. (ONLY in their diesel heavy duty truck engine types, not in any automotive type.)


High performance series advertises synthetic media

http://www.knfilters.com/wrenchoff_oilfilter.htm


This


Originally Posted By: CrawfishTails
Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
Looks like powersports wrench-off only, for synthetic media. I wasn't really impressed with them when Champ built them-they reminded me of a Mobil 1 filter with a nut on them-now that they're like a Driveworks at TRIPLE the price-can't believe they sell any at all.


Yep, I noticed that too, they put synthetic media in Powersports applications, NOT automotive. They use synthetic media in heavy duty truck diesels too. Not automotive applications.


Yeah, my biggest complain is their stupid expensive prices for marketing and also that other filters provide much better performance and lower price.

I would never pay more for less, my

 

[Mike3838]

Originally Posted By: DuckRyder
Originally Posted By: Mike3838
Apparently just bc they are made in mexico they suck without much reason.


What the heck happened to the other thread?

I think the issue is not so much "quality" as "value". They seem very expensive what what they are, there seems to be little technical information on the website.


yeah someone erased my thread in regards to K&N. i don't know why????

I agree the value is not good compared to other filters.

I would still like an answer to a previous question.

Is it wise to run made in Mexico K&N oil filter to 15K miles???

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: Mike3838
Is it wise to run made in Mexico K&N oil filter to 15K miles???


Just get an Ultra (rated to 15K) if they specify one for your vehicle. If they don't do an Ultra, then run a Purolator Synthetic.

 

[Stewie]

Originally Posted By: Mike3838
Originally Posted By: DuckRyder
Originally Posted By: Mike3838
Apparently just bc they are made in mexico they suck without much reason.


What the heck happened to the other thread?

I think the issue is not so much "quality" as "value". They seem very expensive what what they are, there seems to be little technical information on the website.


yeah someone erased my thread in regards to K&N. i don't know why????

I agree the value is not good compared to other filters.

I would still like an answer to a previous question.

Is it wise to run made in Mexico K&N oil filter to 15K miles???


I wouldn't without synthetic media, get OEM or fram ULTRA as many recommend.

 

[DuckRyder]

Originally Posted By: Mike3838

I would still like an answer to a previous question.

Is it wise to run made in Mexico K&N oil filter to 15K miles???


I wouldn't.

That said I did not see anything egregiously wrong in the virgin autopsy you previously posted. If fact it looked like a pretty good $5-6.00 filter.

There are plenty of people here who run filters a long time, but without some cut open used filters it is hard to say how a filter will hold up.

 

[Mike3838]

Thanks for all the input guys in regards to K&N and mileage. I would run Fram Ultra, but I have 2 new K&N filters (both free) that need to be used. Once used, if a member on here is willing to cut open I'll be happy to send over.

 

[Stewie]

I would but I doubt you wanna send it to Canada

 

[CarbonSteel]

Originally Posted By: Mike3838
Thanks for all the input guys in regards to K&N and mileage. I would run Fram Ultra, but I have 2 new K&N filters (both free) that need to be used. Once used, if a member on here is willing to cut open I'll be happy to send over.

I would be happy to cut and post for you (just PM me).

 

[linkbelt]

So Long K&N oil filters!

 

[Stewie]

Originally Posted By: linkbelt
So Long K&N oil filters!


They will still be there as many people don't cut their filters, and their marketing team is strong.