Originally Posted By: burch2217
So, Gebo...
Being the BITOG person you are, did you look at the construction of the G2 in the seam area?
Did it have the wide spacing we have seen in the Purolators that are having issues?
If the concern is ultimately efficiency, the material color from your pics looks different than the D1/D3s and therefore may stIll be the original spec'd media from my discussion with Purolator years ago and NOT be the media from their recent Tearolator filters.
Sounds to me like you are struggling with the efficiency vs D1/D3 thing I did then too ... I suspect the G2s are not the low efficiency levels everyone points at today..... But there is no way to prove it, just speculation.
I ultimately made the WIX 51348 decision for exactly the reasons here and in your other thread...
(I wanted to stay Toyota filter. But there were just too many unknowns for my 2004 Tacoma with 206K miles... I felt comfortable with the WIX quality decision before they were bought... And continue to read every WIX thread today )
But, the wife's 4Runner still is using the rest of the 20004s I have
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The 20004's were those Japan made Denso's that had the spongy media, correct?