986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners - View Single Post

roadracer311 · 02-13-2009, 12:24 PM

The metal filters have paper inside. The insides of a normal spin-on filter look a lot like the paper element of the Porsche filter.

Other than being able to buy less expensive spin-on filters at a local parts store, i'm not sure what the advantage would be.

02-13-2009, 12:24 PM	#2
roadracer311 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 218	The metal filters have paper inside. The insides of a normal spin-on filter look a lot like the paper element of the Porsche filter. Other than being able to buy less expensive spin-on filters at a local parts store, i'm not sure what the advantage would be. __________________ 2003 Boxster S 1995 Ferrari F355 Spider San Francisco, CA