Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek
Originally Posted By: KCJeep
Good ol Toyota OEM, very practical they can double as a no kill butterfly net.
ya, right!
Explain this:
Pureone on the left. OEM on the right.
I love BITOG, where most don't know what they are talking about.
To address the OP, first, if you plan on running the OE prescribed oil change interval (OCI), you won't do wrong with the OE filter but many aftermarket filters are equally as good. Personally, I would (and do) opt for higher efficiency filters on my own equipment (not Toyota) if I can find the filters reasonably priced. I run extended OCIs and better filtration is a way to help the oil last longer in service.
To address the nonsensical post from friendly_jacek: What's the context on this? Great pic of a crushed/collapsed canister filter but that's all it is. Period. One picture of one filter, whose exact circumstances we don't know, should not be believed nor taken as evidence of a general or widespread problem. The most likely scenario is that the filter was crushed in the canister with improper installation. That could also be a fitment issue, certainly, which could be a manufacturing problem but unless you got about a thousand more pics like this, you aren't making much of a point towards claiming a widespread problem with Puro filters... or any other brand.
Toyota and Honda's clinging to a very low efficiency rating makes little sense to me. I see no particular advantage, nor have I heard any rational technical explanations for it. But in the end it doesn't seem to matter if you follow the OE maintenance schedule.