TOYOTA TOLD ME THAT IF I DID NOT USE A TOYOTA OIL FILTER IN MY O4 ROLLA IT WOULD MESS UP THE LUBRICATION SYSTEM? IS THE SALESMEN JUST FEEDING ME A LINE OF CRAP OR IS THERE SOME TRUTH TO IT? I GENERALY USE WIXS FILTERS IN ALL MY CARS:fruit: :fruit:
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http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=8887&highlight=oil+filter
check this thread out...
im a lube tech, and yes OEM oil filter are lot better than any other brands....
i've seen after market oil filter on a car and their oil come out brown instead of black. the OEM filter those filter alot better.
i'll never go back to my "buy oil get filter free" anymore..
check this thread out...
im a lube tech, and yes OEM oil filter are lot better than any other brands....
i've seen after market oil filter on a car and their oil come out brown instead of black. the OEM filter those filter alot better.
i'll never go back to my "buy oil get filter free" anymore..
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i agree with doug i use fram x2 (10 dollar oil filter) on my 04 corolla and it works fine, in my opinion dealer is full of s**t
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use toyota oil filters! buy'em off the net though, much cheaper than dealer
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Just remember, Toyota doesn't make the filters anyway. They get a Japanese or American manufacturer to make them for Toyota - paint them black and put the Toyota brand name on them. Why pay double the price for something that is just as good and out off the same factory!!!!
Haha, well you guys try using an after market oil filter for 5000 miles driving hard, than do the same with OEM filter 6000 miles driving hard..... the after market filter makes your Oil brown.... the OEM one still black.
experiment it, see which one is really good for you engine.....
experiment it, see which one is really good for you engine.....
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toyota's OE filter is made by nippondenso. just thought you would like to know.
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I've cut open a valvoline filter and a toyota filter. The paper in the valvoline filter is thicker and denser than the toyota one and the interior contruction is superior. Don't know if you can get valvoline filters over there, but in Australia we do! Do ask me to fedex them over to you!:lol:
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Um.... Ichi, when I buy oil (I use castrol semi synth), it comes out of the bottle light brown. Wouldn't the oil being black mean that it's all contaminated and stuff? That said, I'd use the OEM filter if I could get my filter wrench on it. Last time I used an OEM unit, I couldn't get it off!
The toyota filters are very tight once you hand tight it.....i do not know how, but once you turn on the engine, its almost impossible to loosen it by hand.4Aaron GE said:
for taking off filters, theres a universal tool that'll take any oil filter off.....i call it the claw.... its black and has 2 "c" fins, that attaches to a 3/8 rachet. with that, you'll be able to take off any oil filter, cept its $17CDN for it tho....
sorry for not saying the proper terms, when i say Brown, it comes out "chocolaty" like not clear light brown, but like Chocolate brown...usually over use of oil makes that sorta colour...
when you start draining and notice white oil coming out, coolant and oil are pmixed togather....and that gonna be really dirty.
but like i said before, i've seen lots of after market oil filter with brown oil coming out more than OEM filters....not saying toyota filter never creates this colour, but OEM filter i believe does better job.
i;'ve had customer coming in for oil change after driving the car for 24000km..... that oil was chocolate brown.....and there was one that came after 15000km with a aftermarket oil filter......ptfffff forget brown, i call it sludge!!!!
i find Penzoil oil filter are pretty good compaired with other oil filters.
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