In my experience, you can't beat the filters that VW uses: Bosch and Mann. I can get the oem Mann filters for my diesel for under ten bucks, about the same price Napa charges for a Napa gold. The German Mann filters are much better. Same with air filters. A Fram filter has a lot less media in it, I'd estimate 2/3 as much.

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-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Wright Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:18 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Ooops I meant oil filter...

On 1 Nov 2001 at 12:08, Evil Pig wrote:

> Sorry folks this was supposed to be on the > oil filter issue > > > > Not quite the same thing but my problem was very similar > > I have and 82 with an 89 Jetta motor (My dieselfant II :oD) > > Which did the same thing. I poked around a bit and was > > just about to go back to the diesel filter (which is substantially > > larger and by dint of the size always had enough oil in it) > > when I ran across the latest greatest Purolator filter. Which > > for about 5-6 bucks a filter has this cute little valve in a decent > > full steel (not fram) filter. I believe it's called the pureone filter > > here's the official brag sheet from them. > > http://www.pureoil.com/featuresandbenefits.htm > >

How about the diesel filter? They only list a regular Purolator filter for the diesel, not a PureOne. Does anyone know if any other PureOne sizes will work? (I even tried the Volvo TD fitment, but they don't make a PureOne for it either).

I've been searching for a premium diesel filter for a while, mostly the Baldwin brand, but can't find anyone that sells them around here. Apparently they make a B114 oil filter to fit the D/TD applications.======================== Shawn Wright Computer Systems Manager Shawnigan Lake School http://www.sls.bc.ca swright@sls.bc.ca