[Vwdiesel] Oil Filters ---( Hot dam NOT a FRAM ? )

[Jim Arnott]

Draw your own conclusions:

<http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilterstudy-german.html>

Me? I either use Purolater (Not much improvement over Fram) or NAPA 
Gold (Wix). And Walmart's 5w40 Rotella Synthetic at $14/gallon.

Jim

On Sunday, July 10, 2005, at 07:46 AM, H . Hagar. wrote:

> OK OK  --  Hagar listens when James Hansen or Val Christian or Loren  
> or or or speaks
> about FILTERS---Bunny Bondo deserves the BEST filter money can buy---- 
> so ? what do I get
> her ? ---now that I have the mula . -----to tell the truth -I do not 
> remember why I
> started to use FRAM. --
> Hagar
>
>
> James Hansen sez :
>  If you took an axe, and chopped off the first two inches of any Fram 
> oil
>> filter it would be an improvement over the previous design.  They are
> shit.
>> Best advice I could possibly give is to not use such thing unless you 
>> are
>> stranded out in the Gobi Desert, a rock has ripped your oil filter 
>> off the
>> car, and a mobile shop truck drives up.  The driver of said truck then
>> proceeds to PAY YOU MONEY TO USE IT, installs it for free, and gives 
>> you
>> another handfull of money and precious gems, along with a new crate
>> longblock to install when the filter dies and ruins the motor you are
>> currently enjoying...
>>
>> But then again, I have so much trouble forming and conveying an
> opinion....
>> use whatever filter you wish.
>
>
> PS : And to get FRAM factory inside information --that changed my mind 
> -for sure.
>
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