Jody said:
everyone alwas talks about frams being so bad, ive never had a problem with
em or the motormaster brands that fram makes.
i never once seen any info / proof as to why and what makes them so bad.
that web site aboiut the oil filters being cut in half and looked at stated
how they were put togterht ats about it.
Correct. They have much less filter area and inferior contruction
compared to other filters. They're crap.
but no proof to a fram filter causing a engine failure.
That's a very difficult thing to prove, which is probably what Fram is
counting on. Additionally, they probably work just fine in most
applications. They don't work well on the newer Elantras.
why would they leave a product like that on the shelves, its just beggin for
lawsuits then...
Think about it for a moment. Fram sells hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of filters every year. Even if they had to pay out a $100,000 or
so in settlements per year, so what? It's a drop in the bucket (1/10 of
1 percent). There is no financial incentive to make their filters
better, but there is a significant incentive to make them cheaper and
promote the hell out of them. Since filters are blind items, people buy
into the advertising hype. Apparently, they've decided that cheap is the
way to go. Other companies like Wix and Purlolator are more interested
in making quality products.
