Check your oil filter BEFORE you buy it!!
November 11th, 2010, 10:42 PM
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Check your oil filter BEFORE you buy it!!
I met up with my mom this morning (thursday) to buy paint for her bathroom, one of my many project next week while I'm on vacation. I take notice that she's colse to the oil change date on her Cavalier. So I say we have to go to the other plaza to go to Walmart and buy oil (I know as anti Walmart that I am, I do buy my motor oil there)
Anyway, we are in the store and we get to the auto section, I start to pick the 4 quarts off the shelf and I said to my mom. "we shoulda got a cart" so she said that she'll go get one and I when over to look at the oil filters.
I ALWAYS check the rubber ring on the filter. I got a few bad Nissan ones from the dealership for the ex wifes car (when we were still together, in fact the quality of the Nissan filters was so bad, I speical ordered the ACDelco filters for her car)
I open the box, the rubber ring was fine, BUT THERE WAS OIL IN THE FILTER!!! just a little bit, but enough to tell that it was a USED filter!!! So I check the next one, WHICH ALSO HAS OIL IN IT. Checked a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and an 8th and guess what, yup they all had traces on oil.
I couldn't beileve it!! One is bad enough, but 8!! I didn't check anymore after that.
This is not made up. I wouldn't beileve it if somebody else told me this. That's just plain crazy!!
Anyway, we are in the store and we get to the auto section, I start to pick the 4 quarts off the shelf and I said to my mom. "we shoulda got a cart" so she said that she'll go get one and I when over to look at the oil filters.
I ALWAYS check the rubber ring on the filter. I got a few bad Nissan ones from the dealership for the ex wifes car (when we were still together, in fact the quality of the Nissan filters was so bad, I speical ordered the ACDelco filters for her car)
I open the box, the rubber ring was fine, BUT THERE WAS OIL IN THE FILTER!!! just a little bit, but enough to tell that it was a USED filter!!! So I check the next one, WHICH ALSO HAS OIL IN IT. Checked a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and an 8th and guess what, yup they all had traces on oil.
I couldn't beileve it!! One is bad enough, but 8!! I didn't check anymore after that.
This is not made up. I wouldn't beileve it if somebody else told me this. That's just plain crazy!!
November 11th, 2010, 11:38 PM
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I met up with my mom this morning (thursday) to buy paint for her bathroom, one of my many project next week while I'm on vacation. I take notice that she's colse to the oil change date on her Cavalier. So I say we have to go to the other plaza to go to Walmart and buy oil (I know as anti Walmart that I am, I do buy my motor oil there)
Anyway, we are in the store and we get to the auto section, I start to pick the 4 quarts off the shelf and I said to my mom. "we shoulda got a cart" so she said that she'll go get one and I when over to look at the oil filters.
I ALWAYS check the rubber ring on the filter. I got a few bad Nissan ones from the dealership for the ex wifes car (when we were still together, in fact the quality of the Nissan filters was so bad, I speical ordered the ACDelco filters for her car)
I open the box, the rubber ring was fine, BUT THERE WAS OIL IN THE FILTER!!! just a little bit, but enough to tell that it was a USED filter!!! So I check the next one, WHICH ALSO HAS OIL IN IT. Checked a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and an 8th and guess what, yup they all had traces on oil.
I couldn't beileve it!! One is bad enough, but 8!! I didn't check anymore after that.
This is not made up. I wouldn't beileve it if somebody else told me this. That's just plain crazy!!
Anyway, we are in the store and we get to the auto section, I start to pick the 4 quarts off the shelf and I said to my mom. "we shoulda got a cart" so she said that she'll go get one and I when over to look at the oil filters.
I ALWAYS check the rubber ring on the filter. I got a few bad Nissan ones from the dealership for the ex wifes car (when we were still together, in fact the quality of the Nissan filters was so bad, I speical ordered the ACDelco filters for her car)
I open the box, the rubber ring was fine, BUT THERE WAS OIL IN THE FILTER!!! just a little bit, but enough to tell that it was a USED filter!!! So I check the next one, WHICH ALSO HAS OIL IN IT. Checked a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and an 8th and guess what, yup they all had traces on oil.
I couldn't beileve it!! One is bad enough, but 8!! I didn't check anymore after that.
This is not made up. I wouldn't beileve it if somebody else told me this. That's just plain crazy!!
November 12th, 2010, 02:34 AM
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So I went to Carquest to get an oil filter for the Aurora and went home and changed the oil and filter. After I started the car I checked underneath and there was oil all over the place.
Tightened the filter more with big adjustable pliers and added oil and ...same thing...oil all over. So I took the filter off and back to the store. They replaced, it but not the oil The thread was not complete to the end of the mounting plate...so the gasket would not seal..
Tightened the filter more with big adjustable pliers and added oil and ...same thing...oil all over. So I took the filter off and back to the store. They replaced, it but not the oil The thread was not complete to the end of the mounting plate...so the gasket would not seal..
November 12th, 2010, 05:01 AM
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Ouch... Never had these kinda issues before, but good to check anyway.
I DO precheck the AC delco ones now to make sure they are not the newer style cheapie versions (8 small holes and an E at the end of the part number.)
I DO precheck the AC delco ones now to make sure they are not the newer style cheapie versions (8 small holes and an E at the end of the part number.)
November 12th, 2010, 07:55 AM
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I had a similar situation years ago when I was just starting to do work on my own cars. I had started off using Fram filters before switching to Delco. I picked one up at the dealer and the sold me a PF25 for my 76 98. If memory serves me correctly, I believe the Fram part # is PH25 so I assumed it to be correct (figured there was some standard). I didn't realize until there was oil spewing all over my car and garage that the o-ring was a different size and it obviously did not seal. I went back to the dealer and as stated above, they replaced the filter, not the oil. Since that day I've been buying my (PF24) Delco filters in bulk online!
November 12th, 2010, 11:17 AM
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Are you sure it was actually oil? Because I recall reading an oil filter review that was hacking apart all different kinds of filters to see what they look like inside and it mentioned that one filter maker has started putting some sort of brown "goop" in their filters that is supposed to do something "beneficial" for the filtering process. The reviewer was skeptical saying that he didn't see how the goop was going to stay in the filter and it would likely just get mixed into the oil very rapidly.
November 12th, 2010, 12:52 PM
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one filter maker has started putting some sort of brown "goop" in their filters that is supposed to do something "beneficial" for the filtering process. The reviewer was skeptical saying that he didn't see how the goop was going to stay in the filter and it would likely just get mixed into the oil very rapidly.
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