Intersesting info about helfrauds oil filters.

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Intersesting info about helfrauds oil filters.

Post by germ » 16 Dec 2008 11:19 am

- Halfords oil and air filters are made by Sogefi Filtration Europe's largest filter manufacturer

- Sogefi have factories all over Europe and own the top 3 brands sales wise in the UK - Fram,Coopers and Crosland

- They are OE to most vehicle manufacturers in Europe.
- a Halfords filter in most cases will be identical to the OE. eg A Ford oil filter and a Halfords oil filter are identical apart from the colour

- No filter manufacturer makes every single filter they sell. Much intertrading is done as it is just not economical to tool up for everything.

- In common with all filter manufacturers there will be the odd difference in size etc but to no noticable detriment to the
filters performance. This is called rationalisation eg one manufacture may have say 4 part numbers for a Golf and another covers it with 2 . For a Fiesta it will be the other way round depending on who was OE when the vehicle was in production.

- as Halfords have chosen Europes largest filter manufacturer as a supplier we should be an exact match more times than we are not - No-one will be 100%

- Champion are are relatively small UK player with just one Italian factory. The success of the spark plugs making Champion a well known brand to the general public is the only reason we stock the filters. They are not widely stocked in motor factors supplying the garage trade.


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Post by Chris_C » 16 Dec 2008 12:37 pm

The last 1.7 one I looked at didn't have the non return valve though ;)
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Post by germ » 16 Dec 2008 12:51 pm

Same, the one i looked at didn't have it. i bought a mann or fram or something last time was quite spensive. i just bought a helfrauds 1 for the clio guess it doesent really matter for fwd crap, i hope to be rid of it next year. but atm the 2000mile trip its doing in a couple of days is only going to cost me 4-5 tanks of fuel-50mpg i thought id change the oil etc, only did it a little while ago tbh changed the oil/filter 4 times in 10000mils and under a years use lol its only a tiny engine needs to be looked after a bit more ;)

was looking to buy a new shape clio 1.4 16v but would a volvo 340 1.4 16v be better? :twisted:
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Post by germ » 16 Dec 2008 12:55 pm

LOL thinking about it i changed the oil about 5 times in 6000 miles or less on the volvo lmao :lol:
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Post by jtbo » 16 Dec 2008 01:49 pm

I'm using Purifix in my FWD french crap, it should be original make in that. Mann should be original make for Volvo if you use appropriate part number which I don't have :lol:

Anyway, our internet part store Motonet has cheap part and original make part for most common parts and clearly labeled.

However I have seen how not available has been printed next to more and more parts, no rear light clusters, no fenders, or pretty much any body parts, luckily it will take quite long time until filters will end up to list as B200 engines are build in quite large quanities, same goes for Renault engines.
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