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400 Four Oil filter - "genuine" or "aftermarket" ?
Bryanj:
Check out motorcycleproducts.co.uk for prices, pages and pages and look at all of them as same thing on different pages, plus same filter on all fours and gl 1000
Oddjob:
After having an aftermarket filter completely collapse at high speed on a motorway I would never recommend anything but genuine Honda. The filter looked like it had been wrung out, spiraled in shape. The mesh filter in the sump was almost completely blocked with fibres. The filter came from my local Honda dealer BTW, they sell for profit, they don't seem to care whether it's fit for purpose or not.
The damage a faulty or poorly manufactured filter can cause and the expense of fixing the engine afterwards should point you to buy genuine IMO.
Trigger:
--- Quote from: Orcade-Ian on September 06, 2023, 12:14:00 PM ---I'm certainly with Nigel on that one,
When you look at the price of a gallon of fuel (do you remember gallons) and how far that will take you before you need another and then look at a gallon (or thereabouts) of expensive oil and how far that will normally take you - I think it doesn't make sense to skimp on oil and filter changes - and I was born in Yorkshire tha' knows! However if Graham reckons that Hi Flo filters are OK for an engine that he had to give a guarantee on, then I see nowt wrong with those.
Ian
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Honda oil filters have always been at rip off prices and Honda don't even make oil filter. It is just a oil filter in a Honda bag these days ( came in boxes before).
Orcade-Ian:
They stop at nothing now to fleece us of 'hard earned' - I got 2 genuine spin on filters for my new Forza - as it's still under warranty and I have slotted extra changes in - they each came with the extractor cap in BZP steel. I've already given quite a few of those away from the GoldWing and CBF days - grrr!
Ian
Trigger:
A lot of the spin on types come with the tool these days. A lot of manufactures have a toque setting now because of the high pressure oil pumps.
The main Land rover dealer near me employed a guy in his mid 50's to be a service technician. After a couple of weeks of him working, they had a number of Range rovers and Land rovers returned with blown engines or massive leaks. He was putting the oil filters on and doing them up hand tight ( as he has always done ) The o'ring had been blown out due to the oil pressure :o
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