Another good idea for oil filters and tranny pans!
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I agree with staying away from fram filters. The last filter I had on crinkled up in removal causing me to need to remove the skid plate below it to take it out. Also on another family car a fram was warped causing oil to leak from the rubber seal on it. They use to be good, but now they are junk made from the cheapest gauge of metal they can find.

 

wish I would've read this 1 hour ago...lol I just put a new fram on my blazer, but my family too has been using fram for years with no problems (now as I say that it is probably falling off my truck..lol I have bad luck). I will be seitching to a different brand next change. I do not remember the name but they are bought in bulk by Marathon Ashland Petroluem so the refinery employees get a store rebate on them. They are a fail safe filter used on all of the refinery's equipment. Normally $8-$10 each and we can get em for $2.50 each with the suppliers discount... oh well, the fram should last me another 2500 miles....

 

Are quick lube places like Jiffy Lube using fram filters or are they using the lowest cost unit/whatevers availible?

 

It all depends on what is the cheapest when they order. The one near me uses a brand called Mighty... Yeah, makes me want to drive right up!

 

Just my 02, but I have been using fram filters for MANY years and have never had any problems.

 

Same here never had any problems with them but will start keeping an eye out.

 

ive never had any problems either, until I started reading this thread... bad things happened... seems I recieved a phone call telling me I was going to die in 7 days...WTF!>!>?!??!?!?!!! j/k

actually when removing my old oil filter yesterday I collapsed it with my hand! Really, should that have happened? I know I have a good grip, but not that good... It was a fram.... I replaced it with another fram.. didnt feel like going back and exchanging..lol

 

i am on a pontiac forum for my Judge and i have heared nothing but bad things about them. i have $2500 in a set of heads alone not to mention any of the other machine work. ( still not done ) i wouldnt want to rebuild it for a oil filter. my dad is a engineer for general dynamics and had to go to a semminarand the guy that was speaking wrote several books and all that great stuff ( he knows his sh**) and is some big wigworking with filtration. he got off subjectand said purolator filters are the best you can get and it has been proven. ive used them for a logn time before he went to the semminar and i have noticed that it seems like its a lot heavier then a fram after being changed (like it has filtered out a lot more of the bad stuff)

 

I had a buddy who had to replace the motor in his Dragster cause the AC Delco oil filter failed.But I use AC Delco oil filter every oil change and never had a problem. Of coarse I'm not putting my engine on the same stress as a dragster.Every once in a blue moon you'll get a reject of a part, doesn't matter from what company. Crap happens.