So I ran Mobil 1 10w-30 in my 1995 honda civic ex for 4500 miles with a Fram high mileage oil filter. My car has 147,000 miles so the high mileage filter made sense to me. Little did I know how horrible Fram oil filters are.

So without further a do, here is it taken apart (sorry for the horrible picture quality):





Filter material with cheap cardboard ends:





Disgusting ball of goop I found at the bottom of the filter:



Any ideas of what the ball might be would be awesome. It almost felt like gelatin or something like it.

The ball is engine boogie?

Looks like the media stayed in tact pretty well. I wouldn't worry too much.

Hard to say.

Excess end-cap glue from the manufacturing process ???

Whatever it is, it ain't welcome.

Wondering if we compiled a nice long detailed email with all the links to opened frams if they would do anything and respond properly.

Sure


FRAM® High Mileage®
For Vehicles Over 75,000 Miles

* Industry exclusive, patented time-released gel additive conditions oil through the entire change cycle
* Gel additives balance oil PH and maintain viscosity
* Ideal for older engines that are more susceptible to oil break-down
* Uses cellulose and synthetic glass blended media to provide 3X MORE engine protection than the average of leading economy oil filters1
* 95% Dirt Trapping Efficiency1

You may have just found the gel additives??

I suppose that may be it! Kinda weird that there was still that much left after 4500 miles.

You don't need a "high mileage" oil filter. It's just a sales gimmick from Fram.

I'd love to see a test of what's IN that jell stuff.

The amazing part is they took the time to throw something extra (goo) inside the filter to cover the extra cost. I hope it was on the dirty side.

In the mid-late 90's they used "Teflon" that was inside the filter. That was when the big Teflon craze was going on...no way would I have ever put that on my engine.

The goop is on the clean side of the filter.

Properly? I'd doubt it. Once I asked a couple questions of them via email and they gave me a lot of $#@%& after they defended their junk filters. I posted elsewhere about how I had gotten two ph3387a filters when I bought ten qts of Quaker State and gave the filters to the relative that had bought my '00 cavalier. I would not put them on when I had the car, but he doesn't care (in some ways) so let him deal with the filters.

What a gimmick! M1/Amsoil/K&N filters cost more but deliver no-nonsense filtration that works.