Oil Filters

atrumbull · Apr 7, 2007

Has anyone heard of Beck Arnley oil filers that are on ebay. The cost is low at around $4 each including shipping. The part number is #041-8066. The dealer did the first oil change, and I'm getting ready to do the 10,000 change. Also, any recommendations on what brand of oil to use from the Prius pro's?

JimboK · Apr 7, 2007

Never heard of that brand. If price is an issue, you can order Toyota filters from www.metrotpn.com for $4 apiece, I believe. I think shipping is extra, but they throw in the oil plug washer. Many dealers charge extra for it.

Based on the advice of many here and in similar forums, I put synthetic oil in on my first oil change. I use Mobil One, though others have spoken well of Amsoil.

atrumbull · Apr 14, 2007

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Never heard of that brand. If price is an issue, you can order Toyota filters from www.metrotpn.com for $4 apiece, I believe. I think shipping is extra, but they throw in the oil plug washer. Many dealers charge extra for it.

Based on the advice of many here and in similar forums, I put synthetic oil in on my first oil change. I use Mobil One, though others have spoken well of Amsoil.
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Thanks. I did check with the dealer, and the Prius filter is $7 plus $1 for the washer. The price at Metrotpn was $4 with washer plus $2 each for shipping if you bought 5 at a time. I did find some information on a websearch that some of you may enjoy. Here's a couple of paragraphs:

www.corolland.com/oil-filters.html

'The Fram at $4.99 just doesn't cut it in my book. It should be in the top half of this group in quality and it isn't. But it did have nice thick paper media and that, I think, is a plus. Other things were not so good as I noted.

The Purolators are a lot of filter for the money. I will include in this group the Toyota filter too, as it is made by Purolator. The Toyota is a very nice filter design, its pleats are different than any of the other filters in this test as they are not the typical accordion style around the metal center post of the filter (the post that keeps the filter from collapsing from pressure. I don't that the Toyota is a better design, I have my doubts that it is, but it is unique none-the-less. The Purolators had metal end-caps on their filter element, the Toyota used a cardboard material for the end-caps (somewhat disappointing). The Purolators, like the Wix-made filters, use a metal clasp to hold the paper-element seam together. The Toyota due to its design doesn't have or need this and it uses all adhesives. Either of the Purolators or the Toyota filter are good quality, you can't go wrong with this group. They all had a lot of filtering surface area, robust case (canister) t hickn ess, the Toyota had a really nice gasket that sealed against the block of the engine, the PureOne had a nice one too and the PureOne also had a silicone anti-drainback valve. I don't particularly care for the Purolator by-pass valve design compared to the Champion design and the Wix design, but I definitely like it over the Fram design. Getting the Toyota for $4.24 makes it a deal even thought I don't really care for the cardboard end-caps, but they're probably fine (and what do I know anyway). If the price is competitive this is a very good filter, heck, all three are very good filters and I'd use any of them.

If I had to pick 5 out of the 10 as being the best, I would pick the Purolator PureOne, K&N, Toyota, Wix, and Purolator PremiumPlus as this group. Their prices start at $3.49 and go up to $9.94. Probably only the Mobil 1 filter is superior to the filters in this group (and the Mobil 1 I bought was over $11.00, but I wanted to try the synthetic filtering media, so what the heck). If I could definitely say that one of these filters had superior filtering ability this could definitely influence the choice of which is best. As an example, if the Toyota had superior filtering ability, that could outweight the end-caps being cardboard and not metal. Then again, I don't know that some of the others such as the PureOne, K&N or Wix don't have the superior filtering element. So I guess I have to find out more about the actual filtering elements themselves to definitely answer that question. The Purolator at $3.49 certainly strikes me as a good deal though. [/b]
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rudiger · Apr 14, 2007

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Thanks. I did check with the dealer, and the Prius filter is $7 plus $1 for the washer. The price at Metrotpn was $4 with washer plus $2 each for shipping if you bought 5 at a time.[/b]
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That's only a savings of $2 per filter. Check around on ebay and you might be able to find them for much less (but you'll probably have to buy ten at one time).

I got a case from Toyota of Dallas for $39.90 (less than $4 each) with free shipping (but that price didn't include any crush washers, either). Some don't feel it's necesary to change the crush washer on every oil change and save the expense by changing them at greater intervals.

Also consider getting the longer YZZF1 instead of the short OEM YZZF2. It's the same price but holds a bit more oil and the greater length makes it a bit easier to get to:

90915-YZZF1-CASE10

cairo94507 · Apr 15, 2007

I replace with nothing but OEM filter and crush washer every time I change the oil & filter. Very cheap insurance.

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