OIL FILTERS FOR $4

FULLTHROTTLERICK · Oct 11, 2024

Was just going through our amazon subscribe & save and noticed these oil filters we've been using are now are on some sort of super sale. They did well on the oil filter tear down too. Figured I'd spread the word before they bounce back to normal pricing!

https://amzn.to/3YkmzE5

SCARd4Life · Oct 11, 2024

Ordered mine from Walmart. At the time, they were 1/2 the price of Amazon. Looks like Amazon now matched the price.

Robot or human?

Kicker · Oct 12, 2024

Crap, just bought 2 of the SRT filters.

FULLTHROTTLERICK · Oct 12, 2024

Kicker said:
Crap, just bought 2 of the SRT filters.

Those are still good tho, just expensive usually.

ARInfidel · Oct 12, 2024

FULLTHROTTLERICK said:
Was just going through our amazon subscribe & save and noticed these oil filters we've been using are now are on some sort of super sale. They did well on the oil filter tear down too. Figured I'd spread the word before they bounce back to normal pricing!

https://amzn.to/3YkmzE5

Ordered a couple - thanks

FULLTHROTTLERICK · Oct 12, 2024

ARInfidel said:
Ordered a couple - thanks

Good stuff man!

meyhem · Oct 12, 2024

Fram is Garbage , SRT Filter Only for me

Erf · Oct 13, 2024

meyhem said:
Fram is Garbage , SRT Filter Only for me

Why are they garbage?

FULLTHROTTLERICK · Oct 13, 2024

Erf said:
Why are they garbage?

Some are garbage but the ones i posted are not. I believe it was @OnTheReel that chopped a bumch of filters up to give us all the info we could ever need on filter selection. Thanks again to him for all that hard work.

Sinister4 · Oct 13, 2024

Are these made in USA or the new Brazil plant ? They say they may have changed the insides in the ones from Brazil ??

OnTheReel · Oct 13, 2024

Sinister4 said:
Are these made in USA or the new Brazil plant ? They say they may have changed the insides in the ones from Brazil ??

The one I just received yesterday is US made and appears to be identical to every other one I’ve seen. Still has wire backed media. It was manufactured just last month so it’s a fresh example too.
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Fram has low end (Extra Guard) and high end products just like any other company. The Ultra is their high end. Efficient as any on the market and $4 is a crazy good price for what you get.

MyWifeLetMe · Oct 13, 2024

Sinister4 said:
Are these made in USA or the new Brazil plant ? They say they may have changed the insides in the ones from Brazil ??

I bought 4 back in April from Walmart for about $9 each. Just changed my oil last night, so I will cut mine open today and see what it looks like compared to the one that @OnTheReel cut open.
@FULLTHROTTLERICK this is a great price and good find, but after reading some reviews of people finding dust and rust inside the filters and the filters being dented from mishandling during shipping, I'd rather spend a little more and get them local so I can see inside the box before I buy them

FULLTHROTTLERICK · Oct 13, 2024

MyWifeLetMe said:
I bought 4 back in April from Walmart for about $9 each. Just changed my oil last night, so I will cut mine open today and see what it looks like compared to the one that @OnTheReel cut open.
@FULLTHROTTLERICK this is a great price and good find, but after reading some reviews of people finding dust and rust inside the filters and the filters being dented from mishandling during shipping, I'd rather spend a little more and get them local so I can see inside the box before I buy them

We've boughten several of these on amazon without issue. Return policy is easy peesy if we get a dud. Either way, Always way cooler to buy local and support your local biz for sure.

meyhem · Oct 13, 2024

Erf said:
Why are they garbage?

From what I Read , Fram Did not Rate well under filtration testing

OnTheReel · Oct 13, 2024

The Fram Ultra tested the best by a pretty good margin. Nearly 100% efficient at 15 microns is crazy good.

(The XG2 for our application is still using the same media as the one Ascent tested above.)

The only filters I can think of that would match or beat the Ultra is the Amsoil at 5x the price, and maybe the PureOne which is still more expensive than the Ultra today. And I suspect that one doesn’t flow as well either.

Particle testing on UOAs from my truck also suggests that Ultra does excellent…

Pore block:
13/11/7 (Amsoil EA)
13/12/8 (Fram XG2)
17/15/12 (Purolator Boss)
18/17/13 (SRT)