hi
i just got my 07 gt.does anyone know if i should stick to fords oil or is that
royal purple the way to go? jjgt07

 

You can run royal purple if you want to, there is nothing wrong with doing that.

 

pick an oil... any oil. It don't matter as long as you keep it changed regularly.

 

Royal Purple will probably be better than the Motorcraft brand and the dealer will probably charge you the same. Redline and Mobil are also oils to look at, depending how much you want to spend on an oil change. However, only stick w/ Motorcraft, Wix, Carquest (Wix), Puralator, K&N, and Mobil 1 for oil filters. Those all have the anti-drain back valve and don't have a filter media that can explode. Just don't use Fram.

 

Is this true?

 

hi,i gave up on fram filters back in high school!!!

 

Having an anti drain back is a good thing and fram doesnt have one. Motorcraft,wix and mobile one does i know for sure others i dont know.

 

well **** looks like that fram oil filter i have sitting in my garage is going in the trash then

 

fram = scam. I've cut open probably 1000+ filters back in my quick lube days and all you'd ever see with fram is a lack of quality leading to failures. No drain back on some filter models, cardboard springs instead of metal, thin walls on the cans (I've burst them more than once), poor gasket sealing.

I use WIX made filters available under the motorcraft, WIX, Warner and many other labels. Just feel the filter can. If it feels substantial and strong it's probably not a fram. You can crush a fram in your hand if your decently strong... a WIX, naw.

 

Here's a couple links which explain matters so I don't have to:

Here's an analysis of pretty much every brand on the market
http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilterstudy.html

Here's a note to the author of that site from a AS/Fram employee which touts confirmation of his findings. I've confirmed them myself so I'd call it gospel.
http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilter-fram1.txt

And for those that just want to know what to avoid:
http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilters.html

Personally I'd go wix.