Rubi
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Thanks for the info. I haven't read anything good or bad about Fram lately. As somebody else stated above; their reputation was most definitely tarnished some years ago. Maybe they got their act together and started making higher quality filters.Cut open a Fram Ultra. They are made as well as any (the cartridge for the Pentastar is made almost exactly like the Mobil 1 filter) and they have a superior proprietary filtering media. 99+ % single pass down to 20 microns, and Fram claims it also flows with low restriction, meaning bypass is triggered at higher pressures. Nobody even claims to be as good. Fram's competitors ran a bunch of ads years ago about the fiber endcaps (calling them cardboard, which they are not) and claimed they were bad. They did have some years with QC issues, but that was decades ago. It turns out, many manufacturers use those kinds of endcaps. If they are well made and well glued, they are as good or better than metal endcaps (which have been known to leak in some brands). Purolator, who makes the Chrysler OEM filters, have a reputation in recent years for pleats tearing, although I've not seen that on the Mopars. I've run Frams for years with no issue. I ran Purolators (both Purolator and Ford Motorcraft) for awhile, too, and saw fraying in the media after only a few thousand miles. I quit running them after seeing that.
Wix has an excellent reputation and they make most Napa filters, too. They just don't filter as well as a Fram Ultra Guard, although they surely filter well enough. I bought a mess of Mobil 1 filters that have the same filtering rating as Wix/Napa's top filter, so again, I think they filter well. (99% single pass down to 30 microns. Not Fram XG territory, but still very, very good.)
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