oil filter
 

is there a dif in the type of oil filter that you use ? my last two were blue stuff but this time i put on a genuine scoob one its a bit smaller in diameter but has more holes going into the filter but fits just fine.

any comments welcome

The newer Subaru filters were smaller than the old ones but do fit fine (they're blue instead of black).

A lot of people don't like them though, seem to have been made to a budget. I've had them before without problem, but have a couple of the older black ones in the garage now for future servicing.

I've had a prob with blue and seen others leak to

i have a blue, fitted a few weeks ago. everything xseems fine, no leaks, but my warmed idle oil pressure seemed to drop from 2.2 bar to 2 bar. I am guessign it is less restrictive than the old black one I had before, even though it is smaller

Just got a Blue today. It is rather small. I will go back o K&N when it's run in. :yeah:

Not even looked under mine to see what it has on it.

I use ADL Blueprint which is quite a small filter, Never had an issue

the OE blue filter is not made to a budget its simply been re-designed to suit "end of life" disposal regs better..............
there are limited supplies of the older BLACK OE filter

the Blue has been around for a number of years now and have lost count of the number we have used and supplied with NO issues at all and from a straw poll of other tuners they find the same - we do also stock/supply Black and the K&N versions also

i've used both ADL blueprint and the small blue oem with no issue.

+ 1

The ones I've seen fail have been on 550+ cars... Guess that would count you all out any way ;)

Mine and stews both spat there gaskets out at Surrey rolling road.. Stews resulting in a fire, lucky for me Charlie noticed some oil when I pulled off, went to the ring 4 days later and could have been expensive if it had totally failed out there

I've got a black one on at the moment but will have whatever Alyn has put in the box with my oil next time - as far as I'm concerned if AS supply them they are good enough for me!