Re: Mobile One Oil Filter

["mstocker" <mstocker@neo.rr.com>]

Champion makes both the Mobil 1 and the new Bosch Premium
oil filters.

The differences are:
 - Normal Champion oil filters particles as small as 20
micro
 - Bosch Premium - 15 micron
 - Mobil 1 - 10 micron, and has a higher burst pressure

Mobil 1 filters are hard to get off because of the lack of
fluting around the base.  Champion stated that they in the
process of adding the fluting.  Fluting was originally
removed to help get burst pressure up.

   Champion - 20 micron filtration $3
      Bosch - 15 micron filtration $5
    Mobil 1 - 10 micron filtration and higher burst

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| From: Bernard Littau <bernardl@acumenassociates.com>
| To: Quattro List <quattro@audifans.com>
| Subject: Mobile One Oil Filter
| Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 1:42 AM
| 
| Hi List,
| 
| I went to Schuck's to pick up some Mobile One oil, and as
I don't have a
| replacement oil filter, went browsing through their
assortment just-for-fun.
| I noticed in addition to the usual FRAM filters, they had
a higher quality
| FRAM (the DG line), a K&N oil filter and a Mobile One oil
filter.
| 
| I am sure the employees thought I was touched, but I
found myself sitting on
| the floor with the four oil filter boxes open, and was
examining the four
| oil filters.  Part of the examination involved juggling
them to get a feel
| for their mass :-)
| 
| I had never heard of a Mobile One oil filter, so I was
intrigued.
| 
| The normal $5 FRAM and the $10 FRAM DG are both pieces of
shit.  The $10 K&N
| appears no better.
| 
| The $10 Mobile One was the most interesting.  The
heaviest of the four by
| far, it appears to include a valve to control back flow,
just like the real
| filters.  I bought one and am debating using it.
| 
| Anyone have any ideas about who makes the Mobile One
Filter, and how it
| stacks up against the Bosch?
| 
| Bernard Littau
| Woodinville, WA
| '88 5kcstq