My buddy owns a NAPA store. I have used a lot of Gold filters because they had the base plate bypass. They changed them so I stopped buying them. Today I stopped in to get a front sway bar link for my daughter’s car and my buddy was bitching about the filters. Since Wix sold out to Mann Hummel, he has problems getting a lot of common filters, quality has gone down and prices are way up. Sad to see what they have done to the Wix and Purolator brands. It even appears that Ford has now switched away from Purolator after many years.