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I’ve oft been told there is wisdom to be found in the BITOG forums, but it appears to me to be like our own Optics forum on steroids: rife with rabid opinions, and short on evidence.

Just my $.02.

FC

Another heads up, every spring and fall the local NAPA stores have a NAPA Gold filter sale that takes a little over 50% off the cost of Gold filter line. That includes oil, air, hydraulic and fuel filters. The local farmers, garages and industrial users take advantage of it. Your local stores may or may not do this.

Yep, we stock up every spring at the local parts store oil and filter sale.

Barrel or two of oil, 20-30 various filters, it adds up to a good savings of money.

AC Delcos on my Silverado; supposedly there is some magic fairy dust oil pressure difference that make the Delcos the only filter suitable for modern GM truck engines. Supposedly. Probably a bunch of hooey. But Delco filters are cheap enough, I bought a case of them when I bought the truck.

Oh the good old days of a $15.00 dollar oil change. Now I have to use a Mopar OEM high pressure oil filter and 0w-40 full syn Penzoil only oil, 7 quarts. Total cost >$75.00.

Little known fact.


The after market oil filters for a 6.0 Ford use a one time only filter cap.

Save your old cap if you ever plan on going back to Motorcraft filters.


I almost bought a fancy aftermarket oil filter cap but it was too much $$$.



And use 5w-40 year round in those POS's.

15 quarts.

I don't care how good they may be...

after having crap products from both Fram and Pennzoil.. I wouldn't use anything with their name on the side, regardless of how good that product may be..
there are other alternatives just as good, from more trustworthy names...

NAPA Gold

Ran 1540 Rotella conventional for the first hundred thousand approximately then switch to 540 synthetic which I noticed a huge difference in cold weather starting. I just did my first oil change with 1540 Rotella fully synthetic, I’ll send out a oil sample to Blackstone and see how this stuff holds up. I mainly run Motorcraft filters throughout the truck, occasionally NAPA.

Napa gold on all of mine!

Walmart has the cheapest oil prices by far so that’s where I’m usually buying it. Unfortunately they only seem to carry Fram filters and I’m not putting those on anything so I either swing by the Cummins dealer for a fleet guard stratopore for my 99 dodge diesel or the Toyota dealer for an OEM filter since everything else I own is Toyota. Wix/Napa/Carquest are all the same filter but I can get out of the dealership quicker and just as cheap as an auto parts store so I just use the Toyota ones.

The Walmart here carries a number of different brands besides Fram. Mobile 1, Motorcraft, Mopar, K&N, and others. Wix and some others are available online with a 2 day delivery to the store.

The Walmarts here seem to be about 95% Fram. I think the Motorcraft and Mopars are just for ford and dodge, and I don't really like the idea of K&N. They might be perfectly good but I don't like their bogus claims of increased horsepower from their oiled air filters that they used to push so hard, and they let in a lot of dirt so I view K&N as kind of a snake oil pushing company. The Napa, Wix, and Carquest filters are all the same, good filters but I always seem to get behind the guy that wants a distributor cap for a 1932 Packard when I go into an auto parts store so it ends up taking me 45 minutes to walk out with an oil filter. I find it easier to just hit the Toyota dealership parts counter when I'm driving by and buy enough filters for the next few changes, they've usually got them stacked up behind the counter for my Camry and Tundra, they're about $5 each and I trust they're a quality filter unlike some of the others.

Buy a Toyota, use Toyota filters, what ever oil yo uh like and stop worrying about such non sense.

Fleetguard only in my '06 Cummins diesel.
Honda OEM in my Pilot, Accord, and Civic.

Napa platinum filters, they got em on sale in the spring for 1/2 off.

Fram is garbage. I also believe CAT wont warranty anything with Baldwins on it. For my retired cop car that serves me well and gets me back and forth to work like an anvil Motorcraft only. Anything but Motorcraft and it knocks for half a second on startup. For my pickup Napa gold only. The wife's lease car. The cheapest damn oil filter I can find. As far as oil. Wal-mart sells Mobil 1 for $22 for 5 quarts here so everything has it in it from the lawn mower to the Crown Vic. i keep 4 or 5 jugs of it on hand at all times in 2 flavors.

NAPA Platinum or Gold. Wix makes them.

Wix makes fantastic filters.

When I had the F150 I'd run Motorcraft. Local parts store had them cheap.

I ordered a genuine Toyota filter from Ebay for 2/3 the Amazon price. At the price, I have to wonder if it's a Chinese fake.