I was planning on using the Honda OEM filter but saw comments to the effect that they are not as good as they once were and was thinking about a Mobil 1 filter (using 0w-20 M 1 oil).
Fram I've read are crap as well.
TIA
btw - search was no help....again
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2000 Insight #1346, 56K miles
LMPG = 72.1 and rising!
running Mobil 1 0W-20
personal best-970 miles on 1 tank @ 76.1mpg
Why Tightly controlled distribution channel assures you getting the filter that was engineered for your car. In _rare_ cases there have been _junk_ gray market imports of "other" _name brands_ that _caused_ rapid failure of the engine
If _Honda_ oopses I know who will be paying the repair bill.
(Never heard of such happening either )
When I buy the Insight OEM filter it's the real thing made in Japan.
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2000 Insight 5spd with 290,000 Km
Daily driver (previously used for autoslalom & track lapping)
Collision avoidance and Track driving instructor
I have used Fram in every vehicle I have owned for the past 24 years with no problems in ANY car.
seriously, I would read about these on the net -- people have torn these things apart and cut a cross section for inspection....they've really gotten cheap on their construction.
...I'm glad you've had good results with them tho.
PS- thanks mr moderator for adding the poll
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2000 Insight #1346, 56K miles
LMPG = 72.1 and rising!
running Mobil 1 0W-20
personal best-970 miles on 1 tank @ 76.1mpg
i use purolator premium filters. they rate as high as the wix brand, and are the same as the mobil-1 in construction, just a paper medium, not synthetic.
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2000 Silver MT Insight
WAI, HTR200, Kenwood MP3 head unit, 3 MTX stealth subs, very-high-mounted 4th brakelight, yellow-top, tinted, SG2, MIMA, center armrest.
I use the Pure One filter from Purolator. There has been some discussion on the list about them, and I've switched over in all my cars.
robert
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Robert Frost is "The original Bad Bob, not Dirty Bad Bob from New Mexico."
From the "Life and Times of the Judge Roy Bean"
2000 Citrus #2757 206,000mi.
I want to say this about FRAM filters- I remember them from earliest childhood, I've used them forever until now. I have an 89 Volvo 740 Turbo, and the Forum for volvos is so Anti-Fram that they have taken to calling them "the orange can of death" Seems that since Honeywell took over FRAM their product has steeply declined, for example, they took the valve out of their filter for my car (the valve prevents the oil from flowing away from the turbo and back into the oil pan) By having the turbo oil-starved when the car is started, the bearings get destroyed very quickly. On the Volvo I use only Mann brand filters (OEM) which do have the valve, I am not sure if the Insight should have one or not? Hopefully I'll find out soon!
-Tim
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-Tim
SOLD-2000 Silver 5sp 93LMPG (haha- new dash from Honda came that way) @ 92k miles
Best Commute 18 miles at 83.8MPG
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What type of oil filter do you use and why?
I know who will be paying the repair bill.
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