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Originally Posted By: JohnBrowning
Why spend that type of money on a filter? Seriously it is not like anyone has had drasticly better UOA or longer lasting engine because they ran a better then average filter? In fact the two Import companies that set the standard in term of sheer number of vechiles on the road with 300,000-500,000 miles on them was Toyota and Honda and they did not even require an a filter change each oil change!Like wise all the people spending large money on Amsoils full flow filter or their remote bypass filter set up do not do any better then people useing cheap Walmart filters.The first motorcycle to routinely hit 100,000 miles was the motoguzi(sp) and it did not have a filter. Then you have all those VW bugs that had air cooled engines and just a reusable metal screen for a filter and they live long lives if you kept them full of oil and changed it from time to time.
I mean obviously it is your money and you can spend it how you see fit but I just can not understand why anyone would put a $10-$12 filter on a motorcycle engine or a car or truck for that matter? That would be like building an out-house out of gold bricks and hangine a swarovski crystal chandaler in it butnot installing running water or electrictity?
I'm thinking it has more to do with those vehicles that have that mileage on them don't make enough power to hurt themselves and the thrifty people who purchased them tended to keep them reasonably well mechanically maintained and drive them accordingly.
Same goes with Ford's Crown Vic's, Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Cars with the 4.6L. I'd imagine the vast majority of those cars have more mileage on them than the other two brands mentioned. Why? Fleet usage.
If the Honda and Toyota vehicles in question were driven like the Police drive their Crown Victoria's, I somehow doubt they would last as long.... Just my opinion on the matter.
Why spend that type of money on a filter? Seriously it is not like anyone has had drasticly better UOA or longer lasting engine because they ran a better then average filter? In fact the two Import companies that set the standard in term of sheer number of vechiles on the road with 300,000-500,000 miles on them was Toyota and Honda and they did not even require an a filter change each oil change!Like wise all the people spending large money on Amsoils full flow filter or their remote bypass filter set up do not do any better then people useing cheap Walmart filters.The first motorcycle to routinely hit 100,000 miles was the motoguzi(sp) and it did not have a filter. Then you have all those VW bugs that had air cooled engines and just a reusable metal screen for a filter and they live long lives if you kept them full of oil and changed it from time to time.
I mean obviously it is your money and you can spend it how you see fit but I just can not understand why anyone would put a $10-$12 filter on a motorcycle engine or a car or truck for that matter? That would be like building an out-house out of gold bricks and hangine a swarovski crystal chandaler in it butnot installing running water or electrictity?
I'm thinking it has more to do with those vehicles that have that mileage on them don't make enough power to hurt themselves and the thrifty people who purchased them tended to keep them reasonably well mechanically maintained and drive them accordingly.
Same goes with Ford's Crown Vic's, Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Cars with the 4.6L. I'd imagine the vast majority of those cars have more mileage on them than the other two brands mentioned. Why? Fleet usage.
If the Honda and Toyota vehicles in question were driven like the Police drive their Crown Victoria's, I somehow doubt they would last as long.... Just my opinion on the matter.
