Change cartridge to canister oil filter?

[MadeInJapan]

$3? I pay $6.50 in lots of 10...am I the mark?

Wellllllll, $3.00 (or less) the last time I bought a big batch. I’m almost out of them so I’m probably in for sticker shock when I reorder. Kinda like light bulbs. Don’t get me started on that one.

Wish they had a bulb you could screw the element out and just replace it!! Especially those over-head ceiling fan ones...I replace them constantly!!

[June]

Cartridge filters are nothing new. Once I watched the oil change on the 1957 Cadillac when I was a child and it had a huge cartridge fillter that had a handle and lifted out of a cylinder the size of a big coffee can. That was dad's baby and most favorite car he owned. I kinda wish he had kept it as you never see 50s cars anymore. BTW it was really messy to change compared to my S80 cartridge filter. June

[chrism]

And then there were the Frantz oil filters that used a roll of toilet paper as the filtering element.

http://atptrucks.com/blog/frantz-toilet ... il-filter/

[mrbrian200]

I personally prefer cartridge filters. You can spot obscenely low quality and/or individual defects easily before it gets put on the car. With can filters you're looking at online teardowns and putting blind trust that the quality of a particular filter brand you're looking at hasn't gone downhill in the months/years since that video, or that QA wasn't asleep on the day your's was made.

[abscate]

And then there were the Frantz oil filters that used a roll of toilet paper as the filtering element.

http://atptrucks.com/blog/frantz-toilet ... il-filter/

If Neil finds out about these he will come out of retirement just to get free oil filters at work....or maybe use Scot Paper Towels

[abscate]

I kinda wish he had kept it as you never see 50s cars anymore. BTW it was really messy to change compared to my S80 cartridge filter.

My first date with SWMBO was an oil change on a 1979 Volare slant six - the oil filter was upside down so the minute you cracked it.

I realised I was on a first date with a totally hot doctor who was covered in hot oil and drove a stick shift, and realised it was never going to get better than that. 33 years later - still living the dream.

[chrism]

We had the S80 out of town for a long length of time when it needed an oil change - no Mayle filters on hand. Had to go pick up a Wix or some such filter and have Walmart change oil and filter. By the time we got the car back home it was leaking oil like crazy out of the filter cup. I started to curse Walmart. Took it apart and found the cup unscrewed too easily. Turned out Walmart wasn’t the issue but rather the O-ring wasn’t as beefy as a Mayle or Volvo brand. Lesson learned- compare new and old O - rings.

[Rattnalle]

Seems very inconvenient with so short ocis you have to do them out of town

Another plus of cartridges is you get to inspect the old one to see if any visible bits have accumulated or if it's nice and clean.