When a long warranty really ISN'T a selling point.

[Avocet]

Just looking online for an oil filter for youngest sprog's velociped and came across this:

Is it just me, or is a 5 year warranty on an oil filter a bit like an ashtray on a motorbike?

(Well, unless you're Nutjob, of course...)

 

[Mottie]

Just looking online for an oil filter for youngest sprog's velociped and came across this:


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Is it just me, or is a 5 year warranty on an oil filter a bit like an ashtray on a motorbike?

(Well, unless you're Nutjob, of course...)

Nutjob gets 10 years out of his oil and filter.

 

[Avocet]

Nutjob gets 10 years out of his oil and filter.

Yes, but imagine the peace of mind that comes from knowing it's guaranteed for half of that...

 

[Brigadier]

Nutjob gets 10 years out of his oil and filter.

They outlast the car..............

.......which will come as a surprise to no-one blessed with the gift of a brain

 

[cdbe]

Seems ok to me, my car does 3,000 miles a year.

I do change oil annually but begrudge doing the filter.

 

[johnny2007]

Totally pointless marketing nonsense.
Anyone with half a brain changes oil and filter every year or less (depending on mileage)
For a tenner you can't really be bothered.

 

[Avocet]

Seems ok to me, my car does 3,000 miles a year.

I do change oil annually but begrudge doing the filter.

Doesn't that mean you're just tipping a gallon of clean oil into half a pint or so of dirty oil in the filter?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Nutjob gets 10 years out of his oil and filter.

But only 5 years out of his engines.

 

[cdbe]

Doesn't that mean you're just tipping a gallon of clean oil into half a pint or so of dirty oil in the filter?

No. My mechanical sympathy (what's left of it because I have a wife) prevents me, and even worse it stops me buying cheap filters for 3k miles they're in.

Also my particular engine (VW BXE) has a bit of an issue with conrod bearings so I don't skimp, as much as I'd like too.

My brother had a Skoda with a 1.9sdi engine, changed the oil when the display told him to (29k miles after the last change), not sure about the filter - nothing on the display so probably determined by him as sealed for life (maybe he's DIYNUTJOB!).

Anyway, car was purring (or rather rattling as it's a diesel) as happily as when it came out the factory when he sold it with some decent miles on it.

Small print on 5 year guarantee - no consequential losses - so if it wrecks your engine they'll replace the filter.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Seems ok to me, my car does 3,000 miles a year.

I do change oil annually but begrudge doing the filter.

For the cost of a filter, why not?

Your choice, but seems false economy to me. The filter does the work.

 

[Avocet]

No. My mechanical sympathy (what's left of it because I have a wife) prevents me, and even worse it stops me buying cheap filters for 3k miles they're in.

Also my particular engine (VW BXE) has a bit of an issue with conrod bearings so I don't skimp, as much as I'd like too.

My brother had a Skoda with a 1.9sdi engine, changed the oil when the display told him to (29k miles after the last change), not sure about the filter - nothing on the display so probably determined by him as sealed for life (maybe he's DIYNUTJOB!).

Anyway, car was purring (or rather rattling as it's a diesel) as happily as when it came out the factory when he sold it with some decent miles on it.

Small print on 5 year guarantee - no consequential losses - so if it wrecks your engine they'll replace the filter.

How do you get the oil out of the old filter?

 

[cdbe]

I do change the filter, I just begrudge doing it. I think I skipped the filter once, during lockdown when it barely moved but it still got the annual oil change (on my car the filter housing is sort of fitted upside down so when the oil is drained there ain't much left in the filter or it'd spill everywhere when you took the lid off.

 

[Avocet]

Ah, OK, yes, that makes sense. I thought you were only changing the oil and not the filter.

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but at £40-a-go, it's probably cheaper just to change the oil!