Indy’s Service Pro Extended Life ones have been looking pretty good!
Your favorite jobber oil filters?
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“Jobber” means a filter normally supplied in bulk to a garage or other professional installers. Fram Core, Champ Ecores, Purolator Techs, Pro-Tecs, etc.
They are cheap filters, a jobber is just the person that performs the duties of changing the oil at a business
Adam I don't use any Jobber filters none of them I've ever seen give you 99 plus % efficiency at 20 microns.
That's the lube tech.
Pretty sure the “jobber” is the actual business, garage, quick lube, etc.
I just take it to mean a cheaper built line of filters that are sold wholesale to the oil chain & auto parts stores for basic 5k mileage runs. There's a reason they stick those 3-5k "Reminders" on the windshield. It's b/c they just stuck a flimsy cheap xx filter on your ride & it makes them profits.
Automotive parts wholesaler.
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"jobber" means wholesaler or wholesale, so in this context its filters you would buy in bulk, usually cheap. I don't think anything you would get at a parts store or walmart would count. They do sell them on RA. I have put them in my cart but they always ship separate so I take them back out. So I don't think I have ever used one?
However given the majority of the public likely does - via the quick lube places, I assume they work good enough.
However given the majority of the public likely does - via the quick lube places, I assume they work good enough.
OK but after 30 posts, I still don't get where the term comes from or how it came to be. Jobber, someone that does many jobs?
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Who knows where any slang word comes from. Its not specific to oil filters. Its a slang term used for wholesaler or middleman - aka "jobber".
What I’m seeing on our work stuff that’s been to quick lube is a lot of FRAM PRO stuff. Or ECOGARD. Occasionally I’ll see a NAPA “PROFORMER”
ProSelect and now more recently Proformer, that's what I've been using for the last 10 years or so.
Yep , it's not limited to the automotive industry . I've seen " Jobber " drill bits .
Can't say I have a "favorite", but I do have two Puro Tech TL14610 with nitrile adbv got for $2.40 from Amazon. I'm interested in seeing how they do. Seen one or two cut open on youtube, looked decent, especially for the cost. Normally though, prefer a filter with a silicone adbv.
Ole standby MO-452 MOPAR. Gonna throw one of these on a friends Saturn we fixed ring issue on. $1/r leach at Rural King. Appears wix made. Can’t decipher date code.
Quick lubes here use Service Champ or Prime Guard. The PG ones look nicely made.
All the cars in my signature are running Champs... Except the Volvo. It's got an EcoGard, but I can't remember why.
I can't think of a time when I have ever used a jobber type filter. I've removed a few of them off cars that I have bought, but they have always been replaced with at least a mid grade Fram, or better.
I agree with those who ask the question of why, when a decent filter can be had for a reasonable price, would anyone who is doing their own car maintenance use a jobber? Isn't that at least partly why we do our own oil changes, so it can be done right?
I agree with those who ask the question of why, when a decent filter can be had for a reasonable price, would anyone who is doing their own car maintenance use a jobber? Isn't that at least partly why we do our own oil changes, so it can be done right?
