Today at walmart i went to get a new air filter for my jeep.
A stack of models ca8205 sits of the shelf. I grabbed the first from the pile and opened it to see it was made in mexico. I looked at the next 5 and were all Mexican made then the last 2 filters at the bottom were Canadian made. I pulled one from each country out of the box and sat them next to each other. The orange plastic molding were 2 different shades of orange. The Canadian filter had excess flash from the molding process and way too much orange goup holding in the paper pleats to the outside of the filter.The Mexican filter had shallower pleats and much smaller mating surface where the filter seals to the box.
Not knowing what to do I went with the Canadian filter because it had more paper media, more rubbery plastic mating surface to seal the filter better, and while the extra goupy flash looked bad around the paper it really was just extra glue to keep the paper from getting unglued.
I often see people here recommend Fram Air filters. I ask how can people recommend them when they are so compleatly different. which one is better? what about the China and USA made filters made by fram I here about? are they all good? some better then others? even though they are all labeled the same and advertised to perform the same.
what do you guys think?
A stack of models ca8205 sits of the shelf. I grabbed the first from the pile and opened it to see it was made in mexico. I looked at the next 5 and were all Mexican made then the last 2 filters at the bottom were Canadian made. I pulled one from each country out of the box and sat them next to each other. The orange plastic molding were 2 different shades of orange. The Canadian filter had excess flash from the molding process and way too much orange goup holding in the paper pleats to the outside of the filter.The Mexican filter had shallower pleats and much smaller mating surface where the filter seals to the box.
Not knowing what to do I went with the Canadian filter because it had more paper media, more rubbery plastic mating surface to seal the filter better, and while the extra goupy flash looked bad around the paper it really was just extra glue to keep the paper from getting unglued.
I often see people here recommend Fram Air filters. I ask how can people recommend them when they are so compleatly different. which one is better? what about the China and USA made filters made by fram I here about? are they all good? some better then others? even though they are all labeled the same and advertised to perform the same.
what do you guys think?