The local parts house has begun stocking Casite filters big time. They are a Hastings dealer and also sold Wix but it looks like Wix is out and now only Hastings and Casite (and a few Pennzoil) filters occupy shelf space.
A very basic visual comparison of the $7.00 Hastings LF-240 and the $3.50 Casite CF-240 show no difference other than the color of the text on the case (dark blue for Hastings and red for the Casite). Could Hastings be putting the exact same filters under a different brand name for half the price of their "premium" filter?
Whatever the case may be had I picked up two of the Casite filter for the wife's Pathfinder but I ended up not saving a penny over the Hastings brand. You see I decided to try a new filter wrench...sort of a pliers with filter cap shape jaws. I got the casite hand tight on the Pathfinder and was just gonna give it an 1/8 turn with the new filter wrench and the darn wrench actually pierced the filter case! So I purchased two Casite filters for the price of one Hastings and ended up having to use both of the filters I got for one oil change.
Sheez, I don't know why I even bothered with that jerky wrench. I haven't used a filter wrench to tighten a filter in years...always just hand tight.
A very basic visual comparison of the $7.00 Hastings LF-240 and the $3.50 Casite CF-240 show no difference other than the color of the text on the case (dark blue for Hastings and red for the Casite). Could Hastings be putting the exact same filters under a different brand name for half the price of their "premium" filter?
Whatever the case may be had I picked up two of the Casite filter for the wife's Pathfinder but I ended up not saving a penny over the Hastings brand. You see I decided to try a new filter wrench...sort of a pliers with filter cap shape jaws. I got the casite hand tight on the Pathfinder and was just gonna give it an 1/8 turn with the new filter wrench and the darn wrench actually pierced the filter case! So I purchased two Casite filters for the price of one Hastings and ended up having to use both of the filters I got for one oil change.
Sheez, I don't know why I even bothered with that jerky wrench. I haven't used a filter wrench to tighten a filter in years...always just hand tight.