Wix or Fram filter?
Has WIX always been the Fram color? Or have I been living in a cave and maybe didn't here about one of them buying out other one or something? Picked up new air filter today and it had the Fram colo...
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SCVJeff wrote:CKNSLS wrote:I'm just checking here... Are you calling me a liar to what I saw in front of me? I could care less what you read or what Goggle says or finds when I look at the tests in front of me. I also never said WHEN all this took place, so you have no clue if it jibes with your 5 year claim. And it doesn't..SCVJeff wrote:
I once had a neighbor that was in the high end auto parts biz: classics, etc. He always warned me about Fram and I always blew him off until he came home one day with a Fram cut in half with a large copper pipe cutter. The interior was littered with filter dust, and a few bigger chunks of filter media, easily enough to clog a seep hole. That was all the convincing I needed and have never run them since. They cut many different ones apart, but what I remember was:
Bottom of the line: Fram Orange
Top of the line: Mobil-1
Here is another Internet rumor that refuses to die. About five years ago Fram had a small batch of bad filters. Five years ago. If you go over to bobistheoilguy.com you will find out that Fram's Tough Guard and Extra Guard are well built filters. In addition to this-it has also been found there has been a rash of Wix filters with media tear.
Go over and browse that website.
It's not inconceivable that any manufacturer could produce one bad filter when they produce thousands of them. In any manufacturing business there is an error rate, no matter what the item is being produced. To base your buying decision on one bad filter is not rational. Especially when there is evidence to the contrary that is recent.
The OCD (Orange can of death) rumor refuses to die.
