Purolator Classic L22500 4K miles (Cut Open)

[Hootbro]

Purolator Classic bought from Wally World on close out late last year. Date coded 2016 manufacture. Ran for 4K miles with Havoline 5W-30 in my Ford F150 3.5L Ti-VCT. Media was strong with no tears and ADBV was still supple and pliable.

Subconsciously, I was hoping to see some tears as I have about 11ea of these remaining and wanted to feel better about getting rid of them.

 

[bbhero]

That does look very good. What type of Havoline did you run?? The conventional or synthetic?

Ohh and the 14610s and 14459s plus 3 others I can't recall off the top of my head were the worst offenders at tearing I believe.

 

[knnaz392]

Disappointed with no tears?

 

[Tony10s]

Looks good ... Wish they all had kept on looking like this because they really were excellent, low-cost filters ... 97.5% efficiency at 20 microns with a cost under $4.

Thank you for the C&P.

 

[sw99]

Looks just fine to me. Thanks for the pics.

 

[WellOiled]

Score 1 for Purolator. Thanks for the cut & post.

 

[SilverC6]

Looks good.

You made a good decision with the mass purchase during the Wallyworld closeout.

 

[Hootbro]

Originally Posted By: bbhero
That does look very good. What type of Havoline did you run?? The conventional or synthetic?

Ohh and the 14610s and 14459s plus 3 others I can't recall off the top of my head were the worst offenders at tearing I believe.


It was Havoline Conventional from a last Christmas AutoZone clearance.

As to offenders, I have yet to see a Purolator L22500 tear reported. Closest and what had me worried somewhat was one report recently of a similar and made by Purolator, a Motorcraft FL-500S that had tears. This one though, the media was pretty sturdy and I tried with a little persuasion to see if it would easily tear and it would not.

My replacement was a DENSO filter but I may give one of the other L22500's I have, another whirl on the next oil change.

 

[bbhero]

Yeah man I didn't think that your filter was one that had any trouble at all. You got the AZ close out was cool. I saw the Havoline DS for $10 five qt container. Had to restrain from getting it. The Denso filters are really strong in how they are constructed.

 

[Onug]

Did you get a good look at the louvers? Maybe take an knife to the media to get a full view of the center core.

 

[SOWT]

That looks a lot better than an unused L14477 I took apart a few days ago. 2015 build code and it had the wide spacing on each side of the seem where most of the tears are.

Thanks for posting the pictures.

 

[Hootbro]

Originally Posted By: Onug
Did you get a good look at the louvers? Maybe take an knife to the media to get a full view of the center core.


Louvers looked fine with ample spacing for flow. It is in the trash and I am not gonna dig it out to cut for pictures.

 

[SilverC6]

Try an electron microscope.

Surely that Purolator has a defect somewhere that everyone can rail about.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Purolator fanboyism is strong with some.

 

[WellOiled]

ZeeOSix - so true and one Purolator success story will exonerate a blizzard of Purolator failures.