My wife once took our daughter's car to Midas for an oil change, against my advice and wishes.
The next day, they got in touch with me at work and said the car was hard to start after school, which freaked me out!
I hustled over and verified that there was sufficient oil in the car...I then noticed that the oil filter (top mounted on an Impreza) was really small and didn't have a brand name that I could find.
Later on at home, I swapped the oil filter with one from the stock I had for my car and I was able to figure out with some guidance from this site that the one from Midas had no ADBV.
My only guess was that the lack of ADBV made the car just a bit more "dry" on the start after a day of classes and the difference was noticeable enough to make an impression on my daughter.
I don't think the filter Midas used was necessarily a piece of junk, but I suspect that it was just the cheapest possible that would screw onto that car and did not really match the application. I know that there are some engines for which filters with no ADBV are recommended as that function is provided internally, but that sure wasn't the case with the Impreza.
The next day, they got in touch with me at work and said the car was hard to start after school, which freaked me out!
I hustled over and verified that there was sufficient oil in the car...I then noticed that the oil filter (top mounted on an Impreza) was really small and didn't have a brand name that I could find.
Later on at home, I swapped the oil filter with one from the stock I had for my car and I was able to figure out with some guidance from this site that the one from Midas had no ADBV.
My only guess was that the lack of ADBV made the car just a bit more "dry" on the start after a day of classes and the difference was noticeable enough to make an impression on my daughter.
I don't think the filter Midas used was necessarily a piece of junk, but I suspect that it was just the cheapest possible that would screw onto that car and did not really match the application. I know that there are some engines for which filters with no ADBV are recommended as that function is provided internally, but that sure wasn't the case with the Impreza.
