Reverb2005

I have a factory Honda oil filter from my 2005 that I want to either use or garbage. Does anyone know if the filter from a 2005 DX is the same as a 2012 LX?

Obviously different engines, but is the filter any different? Can I use this one still?

Thanks!

Poopies

iTrader: (4)

According to the FRAM website, they use the same thing. Lucky!

http://www.framcatalog.com/application.aspx?b=F

ezone

Oil Filter is the same.


I often wonder if the only reason we manage to have oil filters in stock is because they are one size fits all.....

Reverb2005

Ahh, yea I guess I could have looked at the aftermarket website. I thought they were one size fits all! Thanks! Saved me 10 bucks

0396

Fram oil filters...I "used" them for years. Until one day while picking up an filter at the local auto parts. I opened the box and examine the Fram filter. The threads had metal shaving on them. I checked several others, they were all the same.
I concluded that their quality control was in the DUMP... Can you imagine if that was in the filter and your using it on your motor??

Fram is no longer manufacturer in the US now.. another cost cutting that failed. ..Fram has lost all my business.

I only use Honda OEM filter now. Cost a little more and get quality filter.

ezone

Honda has 2 main filter makers, FILTECH and HONEYWELL.
Care to guess what company Honeywell owns?


https://www.civicforums.com/forums/140-fuel-oil-cleaners-other-maintenance/356656-15400-plm-a02filter-oil-honeywell.html

(Follow the links in that post if you want, good reading LOL)

15400-PLM-A02....Filter, Oil (Honeywell)
Stamped on the filter is "Made in U.S.A."

brags

i never use Honda oil filters when i can buy a better aftermarket made
oil filter like a Fram XG its the only one i will use on the Civic.

GolNat

iTrader: (7)

I used to buy the better filters but I concluded that if Honda engineers feel the standard oil filter that they use is good enough for them then its good enough for me.

I think people read to much into oil and filters.

Stock 99

Hate oil threads... think they should be locked/deleted the minute they get started.

mac25

...I run pretty much the cheapest filter I can find, usually Fram or Service Champ.

Because I never go overdue on oil.

The filter is there to collect carbon blowby and burned oil. You're wasting money buying "high quality" oil filters imo. Especially since hondas generally run pretty cool and don't burn.

Unlike most subarus, dodges and fords which can burn 1.0L in between standard oil changes, brand new.

brags

the outside shell of a Fram XG is the same size as oem but on the inside
of the filter the media base is and has much better filtering over the
stock oem one.

Stock 99

http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...th-Fram-filter

The orginal posters question has been asked and answered at this point. Oil threads are more about brand loyalty than facts and cause nothing but arguments between forum members. If you have something that works for you then great that's not necessarily what works for everybody else.

brags

Kudos stock 99 nice pic...
thats exactly why i stay away from the orange cheap fram filter
i do use the fram XG ultra which is a much better built filter
over the orange coloured one shown. the XG Ultra kind has metal end
caps, synthetic media element, with a plastic anti-drain back valve
Plastic drain back valve .? Yes thats what i said, but fear not i have

enough online proof where many people have gone upwards of 8-10
thousand U.S.A miles and cut them apart to find everything nicely intact with Zero
issues on it. it really is a pretty stealthy made oil filter still better than OEM
in my opinion.

ezone

*image was shamelessly stolen from someones facebook*