Originally Posted by JohnnyJohnson
Originally Posted by jayjr1105
Originally Posted by rooflessVW
MicroGard, NAPA Pro Select, Fram Extra Guard, Super Tech, etc.
Plenty of good budget filters.
I thought supertech was a paper filter with paper endcaps, basically something to stay away from?
Originally Posted by Pinoak
Another way to look at being frugal is to use a premium filter for 2 or more ocis. You can buy a $9 M1 and use it for 20k miles. So depending on your liking, say 5k to 10k miles it can last probably 2 to 4 ocis.
Wix Napa Gold can easily last 10k or more in a good clean engine.
All that said the budget filters can be good to for regular ofcis. I'd just stay away from fram tg or eg.
For some reason, the high end filter for two OCI's just doesn't rub me right.
Yes to me its just like washing your best clothes in dirty laundry water.
Or like reusing a...uh, forget it....‚
(don't understand why you would purposefully carry over old oil in reusing a filter but oh well..)