TomThomas

2001 A6 4.2L Hey,, which oil filter, fellas (?) My local Audi guru swears by Bosch (and says no WIx; no FraM), but I can't find a listing anywhere for the part number. Probably a little more involved than running up to WalMart like I thought ... Thanks !

Jerry L

Mann, Mahle are favorites, I sometimes get Mann when buying filters at NAPA sold under their name on the NAPA Gold level. definately not Fram, I might argue about Wix But not now.

Regards

SloopJohnB@mac.com

Mann. When I order oil filters from Amsoil.com they ship me Mann.
You can also get them from ecstuning and other online german car suppliers.

Fair disclosure: Lifetime Amsoil Dealer.

jcman

Mann and Mahle are good along with Wix, they all have good filter media along with better back-flow check valves compared to the main stream over bloated brands. Lately I've been using Wix the past two oil changes with no start-up rattles on a 3.0 and that means a lot...to me.

Prospeeder

I like to use Bosch, Mann, Mahle, Wix, and Napa Gold. Stay away from Fram, even a walmart supertec filter is better quality.

jseklund

Agree with the above, and would add that I have used Puralator filters with no issues. I have 294,000 miles on my car and I change oil every 10,000. I'm not sure that means I'm doing anything right, but it means that I'm doing "good enough". At least for me.

Jerry L

OK how about a slight hijack, What mileage are you guys changing oil at.
Car has had full synthetic its entire life, I have not had anything late model (yes 2001 is late to me) I run dino oil in everything else, the good cars (911 & 912) I am running Brad Penn 20 50 and changing at 3,000 miles.

On the Audi 2.8 it had a fresh change (including the oil pan) just prior to my purchase. I did the ECS Kit with Pentosin (sp?) full syn 5-40 & the Mann filter
First change I did 5,000 mi, just ordered another kit and will be at 5K in a week or so, above I see the mention of 10K
What do you folks change it at??
The Mann filter shows 30K km for the filter but way high, 20k mi

Thanks

Prospeeder

On my 2.8 I do 7500 miles on 5w40 synthetic. Its got 200k on it now and still sounds nice. Anything turbo go down to 5-6k oil changes.

Jerry L

Thanks for the input, I think I will adjust mine up to the 7 - 7.5k range, car also had a nwe oil pan (speed bump i was told) just before I bought it. at 5K oil was pretty clean on first change and at 4.5 k now looks very good,

Regards

jcman

What's your scoop on Wix filters, just curious as well as a few here.