Thread: Fram oil filters - crap or not??

Fram is garbage. This is also well known in the Jeep comunity I belong to as well.

As for my GP, I use a AC Delco. But you could also use either a WIX, Purolator, etc. Anything but Fram.

Originally Posted by SuperSport

Fram is garbage. This is also well known in the Jeep comunity I belong to as well.

As for my GP, I use a AC Delco. But you could also use either a WIX, Purolator, etc. Anything but Fram.

I guess i will start with you. I am the technical manager at Fram. Have you cut open a AC Delco filter lately? They now use a "felt" end cap and a plastic center tube. Do you have any idea what the filter efficiency or capacity is of any of the filters you are either bashing or recommending? The cheapest Fram filter has better efficiency and capacity than the current AC delco filtyer. Do you even undertsand why WIX has made an industry of cutting open their filters and ours and whining away about metal vs fiber end caps? Its because they do not want to talk about filtration! If having a fiber end cap was a poor way to make a filter, how do you explain that Honda OE, subaru OE, Bently OE (on a 345,000 dollar car) all are using fiber end caps? AC Delco and Champ labs are now using a felt end cap. Even better, many including toyota have eliminated end caps of any kind from their filters and use only glue to seal the ends of the media. What is important is efficiency and capacity along with flow rates. We make five different kinds of filters from the 94% efficient Fram extra guard at the lowest price point to the 98% efficient two ply synthetic glass media, silicone valved and garenteed for 10k oil changes extended guard at the high end. I just recieved a letter from a Scott Lipford in marlette, michigan showing me pictures of his 2002 Sonoma with 440,000 miles on it, still running perfect and using the least expensive Fram filters. My sisters GXP GP has 179k miles on it and she gets her oil changed at wallyworld using the cheapest oil and least expensive Fram filter every 4k, how do you explain that? Please take the time to learn something about oil and oil filters instead of just regurgitating internet tribal knowledge.