What oil filter do you run and why

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For anyone wishing to run wix filters, look at the sticky in the mechanical parts for sale section. Good deal on filters.

You have to look in the thread as the sign in has changed a bit.
 
Has anyone else used MOPAR filters? I have been using them for a long time and I have never had a problem, I have not heard anything bad about them either. Besides that I like to look under the hood and see the black filter with the MOPAR M on it.
 

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abodyjoe said:
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Exactly the reason I don't run fram. I'll run anything that's got metal ends on it and not made out of cardboard.
 
I used to think Frams were good filters. Then, I had one fall apart internally while on my car. Kinda strange to take a filter off the car and feel the internal element rattling around in the can.

Never bought another Fram after that. Never will.
 
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What happened to that thread??? Gone??? cant find it...
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I went looking just to save myself the typing...oh well...

66 CUDA said:
Has anyone else used MOPAR filters? I have been using them for a long time and I have never had a problem, I have not heard anything bad about them either. Besides that I like to look under the hood and see the black filter with the MOPAR M on it.
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This guy wins! I use factory Mopar (NOT the ones that Walmart sells, they're known to label-engineer the boxes). Chrysler has to pay for warranty failures, so they're going to watch the QC on what their cars are serviced with more than anyone else. Wix or Fram or Napa don't give a damn.
I saw too many filter-cross-references that failed (like watching motorcyclist drive over puddles of their own oil leaving the shop) because the pressures were off or the flow was backward or whatever.

Just because it screws on the threads doesn't mean it will work, and motors aren't cheap, so don't you be. Think about it, if YOU had to pay for an engine failure (Or worse, a whole bunch of them) wouldn't you make sure your filters are good? Mopar or nothing.
 
wix filters after i read a tech article somewhere and they disassembled numerous filters.

they are hard to find around here but i have found a new souce so i usually pick up a bunch when i am there.
 
I totaled out a 70 cutlass with no seat belt, good thing, the seats came up a few inches on impact. The only good seat belts are those attached to the car seat, IMO

Oh, I use K&N filters only for my 340 and the pos newer cars get a $6 or more filter. No Fram here either and no basic filter
 
Napa Gold here

The Wix fiter failure thread was removed probably for multiple reasons. Whatever you're thinking at this moment you probably are right. lol
 
Wix..........Next question ?

And to my knowledge Napa filters are Wix filters.
 
NAPA is Wix. After the failure thread I was in NAPA the other day and looked at a couple of "Gold" 1515 (Wix 51515) and while the filter ITSELF does not say made in USA, the box says "contents made in USA."

I'll stick with Wix until I get better evidence otherwise. Hastings, if you can ever find 'em, Baldwin are also good. AC is surprisingly "thin" inside last time I saw one apart, but better than Fram.
 
69383valiant said:
Fram ph8a because it fits everyone of the 20 vehicles that we got. Plus it's like hemi orange!!! And they have never failed me.
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A Wix 51515/ NAPA Gold 1515 fits everything your marvelous Fram fits.
 
Well aren't yall fancy! I've been making my own oil filters for years and never had a problem.

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But when I'm out of duct tape I get Wix #51515
 
Wix on everything. Use their fuel filters on my diesel as well. After I had a Fram blow off a bike years ago never used them again.....
 
seabee said:
Well aren't yall fancy! I've been making my own oil filters for years and never had a problem.

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But when I'm out of duct tape I get Wix #51515
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Does your home made filter clear headers?? Got the part number for all the stuff needed?
 
66 CUDA said:
Has anyone else used MOPAR filters? I have been using them for a long time and I have never had a problem, I have not heard anything bad about them either. Besides that I like to look under the hood and see the black filter with the MOPAR M on it.
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I use em...also use the VR1 20-50 racing oil too.

Pat
 
I believe Carquest filters are also made by Wix. Had a case of them that my wife bought a few years back and they looked identical to the Napa/Wix filters....
 
Was told by an old timer that Hastings filters are in line, quality wise with Wix.
 
Just too let everyone know, I am a heavy duty truck parts manager for an International Truck dealer on the West Coast and have been selling Fleetguard Filters for 24 years on all different kinds of gas and diesel engines and transmission and can tell you that they make their own filters and would not hesitate to use them which I do on my personal car. My 440 uses a # LF3313. Fleetguard crosses over every part number for mopar which I can ship to anyone just let me know if you want any prices. I will give members a discount from this site. As far as Napa, which is supplied by Wix and my truck dealership also own a Napa franchise, the part number difference between the two is Wix is a 5 digit part number starting with a 5 and NAPA is four digit and dropping the 5 from the Wix part number. I use NAPA gold on my 2012 Hyundai.
 
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