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Well I haven't gotten any of those yet dwendt44....but I did get a thank you from them for suggesting it and was told they would send the info on to the proper department.
 
CR has actually come in handy a couple of times a year for me. Every now and then something will break that I haven't paid much attention to and don't know much about. CR does a pretty good job of letting me see what's available in my price or quality range and needs to be replaced quickly. Maybe I'm just unlucky I guess.
 
Originally Posted By: ZZman
If enough of us send in a request maybe they will run a oil filter test showing filtering ability and debris capacity among different filters and media types.


Won't they just tell us that they are all the same?? Haven't they already done that with oil?
 
I think they have tested oils in the past. I don't think they have compared filters for their filtering abilities and holding
capacity.

I would like to see them run similar tests to the ones you always see on the Amsoil websites. Those are old now.
 
CR tends to test to one standard and compares how different products perform under that standard. They don't typically test all products to all products performance levels and see which one is best. They also are specifically geared to ROI under that same baseline standard.

that is, if an EaO was in the mix, it would be tested to (let's say) 5k equivalent of usage against all the others. Now if all of them were run to 20k equivalent (in whatever form the test manifests itself as)....
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So instead of
20k test:
Fram:Fail (7k)
Proselect:Fail (8k)
M1: Fail (18k)
PureOil: Fail (17k)
EaO: Fail (22k)

We'll see

Over 5k we saw no difference between a $2 filter and a $15 filter
 
"over 5k we saw no difference between a $2 filter and a $15 filter"

Exactly. I've never seen them take a high end product and run it along with the others to a demanding standard. In fact I seldom see them assessing what I would consider a high end product at all.

But when I need a new vacuum cleaner I look to see what they have to say.
 
They did test oil filters, but it was quit a few years ago now.
Standard Fram, AC and a third that I can't remember.
Fram won.
Tests were Single pass filtering, and holding capacity, IIRC.

An expanded update would be nice.
 
It would be nice if they did a very though test of all major manufacturers filters and media type including high end filters. They are cheap to buy and test compared to many of the items they test.

Also since they are concerned about cars and their ratings of cars this topic would work perfectly.
 
That will be the problem. While they create a level playing field for all products to be tested, they don't put each product in its target realm.

In their taxi/oil test, although very comprehensive in its scope, chose an environment where the differences between dino and synth are least challenged. A taxi on conventional, under the prescribed criteria, already got (probably) 300-400k ..and much more if the fuel component was stretched out into real miles.

No one drives like that outside of a taxi (for the most part). Now if they had done this and a flat out track sequence ..and an Artic cold starting sequence ..and a Death Valley endurance sequence...then they might cover most of the stuff you might encounter over a broad sampling. Then you could draw sensible conclusions based on how your service intruded into those conditions.
 
Kudos Gary! You hit the nail on the head in how CR disappoints me. Therefore, asking them to test something like oil filters will result in technically correct information but folks will draw wrong conclusions. Testing a product to failure is of value to me.
 
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