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Subject:Re: 2 year/30,000km oil filter
From:zolo
Date:Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:19:31 -0800

OK, and where do you get it from?
Zoltan

---- Original Message ----
From: albell@UVIC.CA
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: RE: 2 year/30,000km oil filter
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:43:21 -0800

>well today I finally got around to doing what I should have done 2
>months
>ago when I took my van off the road for the winter, ie add gas
>stabiliser
>and change oil and filter.
>
>I did it and instead of using my usual choice of a Mann W 719/5
>filter I
>tried, as a lark, a Mann 719/30 filter.
>
> (not much diff in price)
>
>Both filters look identical, but the /30 has "2 jahre/30,000 km"
>printed on
>the filter.
>
>I am not intending to change my 4/year filter change habit, but I am
>curious
>about what makes the 2 year filter different.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Alistair
>
>--
>'82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
>albell@uvic.ca
>http://members.shaw.ca/albell
>