WIX Oil Filters

[BIGDIG]

Any feedback on useing WIX filters on a cummins

Warranty Void or not

 

[cowboybarber]

If you do a search for oil filters you will find mucho info. Here is a link to a TSB regarding oil filters for our trucks. http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2001/09-004-01.htm Wix is not listed, but I have about 130,000 on my truck and have always used Wix filters.



Hope this helps.

 

[GTop]

I've also used Wix since the first oil change,and will continue to use Wix. They're a high quality filter.

 

[David Wheeler]

A little advice...

If your CTD blows, as did a fellow's in my area, and you are found to have used (possibly documented by the dealer during a visit) or are using an unapproved filter, you can kiss your engine warranty good bye, as did the gentleman in my area. He was using a Fram on his engine. The darn thing was still hanging on it when the truck was towed in to the dealer. $4000. 00 plus bill for new engine! The minimal cost savings on filters just simply isn't worth the risk. Good luck!



David

 

[illflem]

Wix filters are great, I have hundreds of thousands of miles on them. After reading whitenight's tale (click here) my feeling is it doesn't make any difference which brand of filter you use as far as warranty is concerned, DC will still try to screw you. You're probably better off with a company such as Wix supplying their warranty than to have to deal with DC.



David, if your friends's Fram filter is what caused the engine damage Fram would have covered the damage with little hassle.

 

[swalls]

Oil filter

I don't understand all the hoopla about different brands of filters. All you have to do is cut some open and compare them--they speak for themselves. I am going to repeat this link about 3 popular filter brands. I have cut open quite a few different models of Fleetguard, Wix, and Fram filters... the results/differences are "in general" about the same as this filter for an 8. 3L ISC engine. In general, I believe the Fleetguard in this example is clearly a premium filter, the Wix is of medium quality, and the Fram has undergone some cost-cutting measures. The TSB referenced above lists Cummins/Dodge approved filters. In oil filters, you gets what you pays for. You want medium or low quality, pay medium or low price. That engine is still going to belong to you long after it goes out of warranty.

Oil filter pics

 

[merryman]

While using the approved filters will not guarantee that you will not have a controversy if you have an engine problem It WILL remove one possible basis for a warranty denial. Does using a filter other than the approved ones give any corresponding benefit that is worth the very small saving in money? I can not think of one that is worth that risk.



Vaughn

 

[BIGDIG]

OK OK I GET THE PICTURE. DON'T USE WIX.

THANKS FOR THE INFO

 

[David Wheeler]

illflem

Just so we are clear, the person with the blown engine was not a friend of mine. The engine was sitting on my Dodge dealer's shop floor. That info aside, I was "told" by the diesel mechanic working on my truck that day that Fram wanted the engine owner or Dodge to "prove" that their filter caused the engine failure. I think Fram "covered" themselves quite well! Little hassle, Me thinks not



David

 

[Diesel Freak]

I use the Napa Gold 1607..... same as the Wix 1607

 

[Wayno]

swalls pretty much sum it up for ya ll. Just cut those old oil filter's apart and look what's inside. I was sent to a school on servicing equipment by my employer and this is what the instructor told me, cut the top off the filter then pull the paper out of the can,then cut the paper and roll it out like you would roll out a roll of toilet paper and measure it. The more paper the better the filtering capabilities. I have a hard time convincing people to do this when it come's to what oil filter to use, especially people that use Mobile 1. I use to use Mobile 1 filter's till I cut one of them apart then I cut a Fleetguard apart . Change my mind real quick-----------Muleshoe---------now that's a name you don't here very often. My mother has told stories about living there when she was a young child. If I remember right she has said her mother use to drag her around in a cotton sack when she pick cotton way back when. I think my mother was born there too. I will have to double check .

 

[rgamble]

swalls, I am from muleshoe also,left there in 58 when I joined the Air Force. Brother lives in Clovis.



Cheers