Re: Napa brand oil filters?.

Posted by NC Wayne on January 03, 2005 at 17:45:56 from (205.188.117.7):

In Reply to: Napa brand oil filters?. posted by Jonboy on January 02, 2005 at 18:00:59:

A good friend of ours went through the WIX plant a few years back. He told me one thing that I already knew, that WIX made the NAPA filters, but they make others also. I don't remember exactly which ones he said, I know one of them for sure was CAT, and I believe another was Baldwin and a few others also. Anyway he said as they went down the line and one "brand" ended, and another began, the filter simply changed colors. The guy giving him the tour said the fliter manufacturers had a deal worked out between themselves to keep them all profitable. Basically a mfg like WIX couldn't make filters on the Easty Coast and ship them West and compete with the makers on that coast, and the same went for the mfgs doing them on the West coast. So, filters made on the East coast for several different mfgs would came out of the WIX plant and be given different names, while those sold on the West coast would come out of say the Baldwin plant and be done the same way. I've never known the man that told me this to lie to me, in fact he's our "go to guy" when we can't find something so, for me anyway, I take what he told me about these filters as "gospel." Around here 90% of the customers we have run NAPA filters in their heavy equipment, and I have yet to see one of them have a lube related problem,other than one caused by simply not changing the oil.

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