Fowarded from the watercooled VW newsgroup:

>It took awhile but I finally got word back from Bosch. This question got
>bounced around alot (they CC'd me each time they had to forward it to
>somebody because they didn't know).
>
>So now they've verified what I read on:
>http://minimopar.simplenet.com/oilfilterstudy-german.html
>
>Its starting to look alot like most filters for our cars are made by
>Champion labs. Then after that Fram (they make Canadian tire filters and
>some other house brands for other parts stores), and lastly Wix makes
>filters for us.
>
>No real german filters...sniff sniff..sniff...;-)

Just FYI regarding the previous oil filter thread.

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