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Re: oil filters

> Just came back from the dealership to buy a part.  At the parts counter,
> the guy in charge had three oil filters dismantled and on display, when I
> asked him why, he showed me... he had a Fram filter, a Canadian Tire
> filter (aka Walmart), and then an Autobahn filter.  The Autobahn had
> *twice* the filter paper, the pressure valve, and weighed twice as much.
> It also cost 3 times the price of the others, but $18 is a small price to
> pay.

Heh, about a month ago I was bored one weekend (weekend job at NAPA is the ONLY
reason the '84 is still on the road) and took a hacksaw to three filter &
discovered the same thing.  Kinda cool.  'Cept the filters I used were Fram
(complete garbage) AC Delco (not bad actually) and NAPA (made by Wix, very nice
inside.)  I found the same thing - Fram sux.  The Wix used only marginally
thicker & better quality paper than the Delco, and the valves on each looked
equivalent.  Sounds about like the AutoBahn product.  For $3.50 versus $18,
well...

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-Mike
mikes@specnet.com
mks107@psuvm.psu.edu
87 5000CS TQ - Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
84 5000S - Boulder, Colorado
90 80 - Bethesda, Maryland
(hunting for the elusive Lago Blue '91 200Q)