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What is the Best oil filter for our cars. Easy Question.
THX

I bet there is a wide variety of responses to this one For me.. I run Napa Gold oil filters or K&N Oil Filters (prefer Napa Gold but if I cant find one the K&N will do)

Tunes67

I believe if you change your oil regularly before it starts breaking down you don't have to worry about it.

Easier to take the car to a shop and pay 10-15 bucks for an oil change than messing around with it at home and having to take the oil back for disposal.


To answer the question:
Summer Time: NAPA GOLD, KN, PUROLATOR are all good
Winter Time: Pay the 15 bucks.

The ultimate, particularly for our vehicles where clean oil is so critical, would be the CM oil filters. They filter down to 8 microns with very high flow, and use a replaceable filtration element.

They are expensive, however - $95 for the filter kit (which includes the machined aluminum filter housing, a filter element and an O-ring kit), then $11 each for replacement filter elements, and $6 if you have to replace the O-rings. After the initial purchase, they work out to be comparable in cost to a higher-end replaceable oil filter (like the K&N), but offer better performance.

I have found mazda filters to be $1 cdn more than fram. I therefore use a mazda filter because it also has a drain back valve incase there is a clog in the filter. IMO this is the best.

ive just bought some Bosch filter, DO NOT use fram, pennzoil use at least napa silver

Use whatever Purolator you can afford.

Purolator PureONE baby!