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What do you think? What filters do you believe in, and why?

Richard, we try to stock up once a year at the local Carquest.

They have the annual spring filter and lube special and a guy can really save some money. Oil and air filters and a barrel of Rotella.

Not sure on the quality but I guess we've had good luck. Like batteries, heard most filters are just re-branded from the same factory anyway.

NAPA oil and air.....they get pretty good reviews and the price is fair. not great but fair. You can find any answer you want to hear on the internet but the truth is I've never heard of anybody losing an engine because of filter failure.

If I lived in a dusty environment I might worry about it a little more but I don't so I just buy name brands and keep em changed.

NAPA Gold usually.

Dealer is actually cheaper than NAPA of the oil filters for the ford 6.7.

^^^^ This ^^^^
Good prices during annual sale. By enough for a year.
I think I'm getting brand name filters with Car Quest number.

Six uses a cut away model to compare themselves to the competition.

I used to work for a company that has an independent parts store. I consider the
staff and manager friends, they sell and use Wix. Good enough for me.

On my tractors, I use NAPA filters. The one exception is the hydraulic filters on my NH TL-80. NAPA doesn't carry them, and factory filters are $100 each. I can order an off brand online for around $30-40 bucks. Since I change them every year, I figure the off brands will last that long. On my vehicles, which are all Fords, I use MotorCraft filters (Ford brand).

No one signing the praises of K&N? I've never bought one, but some seem to think highly of them.

I put a K&N air filter on my Taco when I bought it back in 02. After about five years the rubber frame started to deform letting unfiltered air in around the parameter. I chit canned it.
I can't speak to their oil filters but they're probably as good as any.

In my truck we use NAPA gold too. Just because they are the closest parts store and the price isn't all that bad. I used Fram for years and never had a problem.

I in my tractor I use a Purolator filter.

Went into town today and got the big hydraulic filter for my 100hp tractor.

$100 bill.

Damn!

$1 per hp?

Glad I didn't have to buy one for my friend's 235hp JD then...

use WIX and Napa

Why cant a Ford 400HP turbodiesel be put in that thing? $22 filter.

Five years???

(Sounds like I'm not alone in neglecting cheap insurance sometimes!)

It was one of the reusable ones.......10 year/1,000,000 mile warranty.
You still have to wash and reoil it once or twice a year depending on mileage and conditions.
Cost about $70 IIRC

https://www.knfilters.com/cabin-air-filter.aspx

Here's an interesting comparison. The only one he really rips on is Fram.

http://www.austincc.edu/wkibbe/oilfilterstudy.htm

Looks like most of the others are made by Champoin or Purolator except for NAPA which is a Wix..

I had them in my last 2 pickups. Take them out once a year, clean, and spray them with oil, and put them back in. The last filter was in for 10 years, and looked as good as new.

Napa gold