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    Lightbulb oil filters , which brand is best ?

    which oil filters are best to use on my ecotec? Holden , Repco, Ryco, Valvoline ..... are they all the same or is one better than the others ?

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    I've always used Ryco and never had a problem! I dont which is best though, I just buy the same one each time out of habbit!

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    anything really. if its replaced every 5000 you wont have any problems
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    i've been using valvoline for about last 2 years. had no probs either, and they were cheap at supa cheap. now it seems supa cheap are selling ryco instead. I'm curious why the change back to ryco , bet it was a price / contract deal rather than quality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nicko View Post
    anything really. if its replaced every 5000 you wont have any problems
    What he said^

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    RYCO, Repco or Cooper. Purolator 'Pureone' is excellent, so it the K&N which is bigger as well. There is that new Drift Oil filter with the built in magnet is meant to be good...

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    I've always just kept on buying Ryco, but that's merely just out of habit, and the logic of "Well.... I haven't had any problems with Ryco yet, and it couldn't make that much of a difference could it? Nah... I'll just buy the same one again..."

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    been using fram for years. i have a remote oil filter setup however so it's like 3 times bigger then the standard filter looking at one of the filter magnets. they seem like a good idea
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