FRAM is back at Walmart

[Roger in Iowa]

Frame is back.

 

[Mark-Mi]

Frame is back.

Whoopee!!

 

[1948CaseVAI]

The name rights were bought out of bankruptcy by Premium Guard Inc ( PGI of Memphis) just this year. So the name is back but the worth may or may not be.

 

[m16ty]

I haven’t used Fram since the 1980s. They were junk filers then and I’d assume they haven’t gotten any better.

 

[NDIHC]

I wonder if the company who bought the name is going to improve the product. I quit buying Fram many years ago. I was talking to a manager at Fleet Farm one day and he said even though they sell Fram filters in the store they don't use them in their service department because they are low quality. He also said they would be changing filter brands in the store. I wonder if they still will change brands.

 

[Russ from MN]

I used to use Fram because of the non-skid coating on them, easy to get ahold of. But then our Mustang started rattling on startup, so I switched to Wix and the problem went away.

 

[Roger in Iowa]

Some vehicles require an anti'drain back valve. Not all filters have such. But all the correct for vehicle filters have such.

 

[SweetFeet]

Frame is back.

Noticed that recently... did not buy any Fram tho' - we bought whatever the cross reference was, while Fram was unavailable.

 

[da.bees]

I guess I slept through it all, I'm clueless to all this. I always just grabbed a major brand thinking they had it covered. Ditto for oil and grease.

 

[Fixingfarmer]

I wonder if the company who bought the name is going to improve the product. I quit buying Fram many years ago. I was talking to a manager at Fleet Farm one day and he said even though they sell Fram filters in the store they don't use them in their service department because they are low quality. He also said they would be changing filter brands in the store. I wonder if they still will change brands.

Fleet farm had when I was in there an isle half of Wix filters I just grabbed one for the 2555 and the other half was purolator for the small stuff. Honestly I had hoped fram would stay away for awhile longer just so that all went smoothly. Dad loves Fram 50 years ago they must have been good


I think NKG on the Autolite side took full advantage I think Wix was slow off the line that should be a full idle of Mann and Hummel products but probably rightly assumed they wouldn’t be gone forever

 

[Dan in Ohio]

Fram as a kid , then what ever the local auto parts store had, now it's a Wix if I can find one. Usually order the Wix I need for my tractors as I haven't found one in an auto parts store.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

I've used Fram almost exclusively and never had any problems. They were rated best but that was a long time ago. Tractors. cars. trucks. I don't know where the bad rep comes from but I'm inclined to believe it gets the blame for a lot of unrelated problems. Kind of like ethanol in the gas. I know I'm gonna hear about this comment.

 

[sixbales]

I've used Fram almost exclusively and never had any problems. They were rated best but that was a long time ago. Tractors. cars. trucks. I don't know where the bad rep comes from but I'm inclined to believe it gets the blame for a lot of unrelated problems. Kind of like ethanol in the gas. I know I'm gonna hear about this comment.

Me too!!

 

[john in la]

Like anything when you have a low end line to meet a price point the entire brand name can suffer. FRAM has some good stuff but they also have some bad stuff.

I don’t trust wix since Mann bought them.

I’m using mobile 1 extended performance oil and filters on my gas cars with normal change intervals and the best Napa filter on my diesel tractor

 

[the tractior vet]

Fram as a kid , then what ever the local auto parts store had, now it's a Wix if I can find one. Usually order the Wix I need for my tractors as I haven't found one in an auto parts store.

Don't know where in the buckeye ya live but Cal Ohio Lube in N. LIMA has a ware house full of WIX .

 

[NY 986]

I've used Fram almost exclusively and never had any problems. They were rated best but that was a long time ago. Tractors. cars. trucks. I don't know where the bad rep comes from but I'm inclined to believe it gets the blame for a lot of unrelated problems. Kind of like ethanol in the gas. I know I'm gonna hear about this comment.

I think most of it along with the oil used is due to people pushing a vehicle or machine well past its oil/filter change interval. I used Fram in a number of vehicles without issue. In recent times other filter brands were competitively priced so I used them versus Fram. For the most part with farm equipment I will use JD filter's on their products and Fleet Guard for everything else where possible.

 

[NDIHC]

I used to use Fram as a teen/early 20s person because they matched my Chevy orange engines. Then I started hearing a lot about how much better Wix, Casite, Hastings, Baldwin and the higher end Purolator filters and other brands were. I can't say that I've had an engine failure due to any brand of filter I've used.

 

[NY 986]

I used to use Fram as a teen/early 20s person because they matched my Chevy orange engines. Then I started hearing a lot about how much better Wix, Casite, Hastings, Baldwin and the higher end Purolator filters and other brands were. I can't say that I've had an engine failure due to any brand of filter I've used.

One reason I started using other brand filters is a couple of area auto parts stores started offering specials on products such as Purolator including the high quality line. Anything I use is a high sales volume filter which qualifies for the discounts offered.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

Fram as a kid , then what ever the local auto parts store had, now it's a Wix if I can find one. Usually order the Wix I need for my tractors as I haven't found one in an auto parts store.

I just got Wix at O'Riely's for my Kubota LX3310. It was in stock.

 

[DoubleR]

I never knew they left. Heard bad things about them years ago, probably on here, so I quit using them. Even threw one away that I had for my truck. Been paying the big bucks and using OME filters from the dealers.