[Vwdiesel] 1985 1.6TD Jetta recently acquired

[James Hansen]

Yessir, Wix certainly are good filters.
I go through a lot of filters in a year, most of them wix.
I take most of them apart after use, and they are well made, no defects, 
  effective filtration media, etc.

I still have a pile of OEM filters to use for the volks fleet.  (was 
feeling spendy one day, and case price isn't too terribly painful.)

I still prefer OEM, Bosch, Mann, Mahle, Lubrifiner, Wix, Purolater, and 
others.

Most every other manufacturer makes good ones, pity that Fram has 
acquired such a bad reputation in my mind from the shitty product of 
theirs that I had the misfortune to use in the past.

I know they have fixed up their air filters from the thin hard gasket 
problems they had early on in my 1.6NA days.  That said, I would still 
only use their filters to wipe with, merely on principle.

For those that don't know, I blew two cans on the wham-bam-thank-you- 
fram oil filters years and years ago.
I thought I should mention that I'm still bitter... just in case you 
didn't notice.
<evil laugh>
-james

Andrew Buc wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 28, 2006, at 08:34  PM, James Hansen wrote:
> 
>> Friends don't let friends use *spit* Fram.
> 
> If you can't get Mann/Mahle locally and need a filter in a hurry, I 
> understand that Wix filters are good.
> 
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