Ok, i dont now if anyone else has heard this. But i had a Fram (oil filter company) representative tell me that if an oil filter is changed every other oil change that its accually better for the car, although the company will never publicly admit it (for obvious reasons). I think its complete bull****, although it did come from a representative. What do you all think?

 

I think you need to go read the fluids and lubricants forum......

and shoot that idiot in the head.

 

i agree..........but i dont need to read that forum cus i didnt believe him, besides, im in school for automotive

 

Just because you're in school for "automotive" doesn't mean you can't learn.
I have Nissan master techs call me weekly asking about 3rd gen problems... and you'd think I would be learning from them!

 

i can always learn something even though im in school, im just trying say that i know very well that a filter has to be changed every time. its that i was told something else and wondered if anyone has heard that before

 

actually I've heard the opposite.
change your filter twice as often as the oil itself

 

Schedule 2 in the FSM for our cars has you replacing the filter every OTHER oil change. I think you'd have to be an idiot to not replace the filter while you're down there changing the oil.

 

Fram is crap anyway.

 

Word. Fram and Autolite can eat my taint.

My Max gets Nippon filters.

 

From what I read in the Fluid section, certain oils can last a good deal if the filter is changed at a certain time, you'll just have to fill up the oil that you lost when changing the filter.

I don't follow that rule though, as I change mine every 5,000miles oil/filter

 

alot of companies are sayin you dont need to change your oil at 3,000 miles...they want you to do it every 5,000-7,000 miles

 

Of coures they do. That way your cars engine will wear out faster= You buying cars more often...

 

10char friggin rule

 

Having hte car wear out faster has nothing to do with it at all. Since most of our cars were built, the refining process of crude oil has increased dramatically and the resulting engine oils are much better. It's the better oils which are why manufacturers are recommending the 3000mi oil change can be pushed to 5000-7000mi, not the fact they want the cars to wear out faster. If they wanted cars to wear out, they just make crappier cars. Since when has a crappier product helped a manufacturer? All of the top selling cars out there generally have good reliability and build quality.

 

I disagree 100%. Quality of oils has not gone up greatly. It's the quality of the ENGINES that have gone up greatly. Greatly improved engine design, greatly reduced blowby, more efficent head design all leads to greatly reduced oil contamination. thus longer change intervals.

 

just to add fuel to a fire.
there has been released an updated spec for the oil, so oil prices will be going up some more as the new spec is more widely implemented.

 

I use WIX oil filter # 51394, its what cross refrenced with the yota filter. and I think it works great, puny little fukcer tho

 

IMO it's BOTH factors. Oil specifications are getting tighter and more is being demanded of oils, particularly synthetics. Conventional oils are being made out of better base stocks and have better additive packages to meet these specs. Some are being made out of base stocks that are getting closer to the level of synthetic base stocks.

At the same time, engines are getting cleaner and made to tighter tolerances, which is easier on oil. Many newer cars like my parents' new Mazda don't even specify a break-in period or tell you to change the oil within a few hundred miles anymore. Combine a carefully constructed engine with durable synthetic oil, and you get those crazy sounding 10,000 mile oil change intervals some cars specify now.... mind you some of those particular cars have fairly high oil capacities.

 

Think about this. Compare oil quality from 1985 to 1995. Now compare Nissan's 3.0 V6 from 1985 to 1995. Which do you think has advanced more?

 

Just some new cat on the job with his 2 cents

 

'representative' is just a fancy title for bull****ter, certainly not a indication of technical knowledge/experience.