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Old Aug 18, 2001 | 11:57 PM
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Oil filter?

Whats a good one?

I hear fram is good, but I hear alotta people say they suck

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Old Aug 19, 2001 | 12:39 AM
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Go with AC Delco, I use them on all my cars. Not Fram, if you read the oil filter studies you would see that it has the least capabilities of the major brand names.
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Old Aug 19, 2001 | 01:15 AM
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"if you read the oil filter studies"

I did, a while back and fram was close to the top. Thats why I asked.

Thank you for your reply

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Old Aug 19, 2001 | 08:52 PM
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Stay away from FRAM.........AC Delco is the way to go. Tear a couple apart sometime, and you'll see why FRAM is NOT a good idea.

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Old Aug 19, 2001 | 10:19 PM
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Best spin-on on the market is AMSOIL for nominal particle size filtering, contaminate holding capacity, and burst resistance. Then Mobil 1, then perhaps AC or Hastings, then things start leveling out.

Fram is just below K-Mart & Target store brands.

Actually, putting Fram in the same sentence as K-Mart & Target is insulting to K-Mart & Target... Oops, did it again!

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