filters

[aardvark151]

Saw a post regarding the use of other brand filters besides the ''dealer'' branded ones. If the filter is comparable, it does not break the warranty, no matter what the dealer will tell you. The Federal government did address this by law, for all applications. Meaning your car, as long as the filter meets standards, it meets the requirments, also on equipment. Just be sure to keep the invoice/receipt for the purchase. Me, I try to stay with either WIX or NAPA brands, as they are well known, and meet all standards for filters. Probably most ''dealer'' branded filters, are made in the very same factories. As with Ford, how many filter factories do you see for them? Or oil refineries for that matter. If I serviced my own equipment, with such filters, and they tried to void the warranty, after being provided proof, then the next step would be to contact the parent corporation with a complaint. And if that failed, then perhaps a trip to see an attorney. Never in some forty plus years of working on equipment have I had to take that step.

 

[Wagtail]

G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.

Enjoy the site and thanks for the tip.

Because my JD's donk is a Yanmar I don't use 'John Deere' branded filters; it's a 4 hour round trip to my dealership and my towns automotive shop carries most tractor generic brands. My dealership isn't fussed either, as long as it's the proper filter the warranty is still good.

 

[TBN Support]

Good to know!

Welcome to the forum. :welcome:

 

[mapper]

The issue I ran into at the fifty hour fluid and filter change was that my tractor was a very new model and there were no cross references to equivalent NAPA or any other brand of filter. I hope that by the time the next service is due the cross reference charts will have caught up. The dealership prices were about double what the price of similar filters from NAPA were. The dealer filters were labeled in Chinese characters and came in a plain white box, they were not labeled Massey Ferguson, I rather doubt that my tractor is so special in design that they custom designed the filters for it:laughing:

 

[Wagtail]

G'day mapper. In my own experience I did check the price difference between a John Deere branded fuel filter and the local generic brand.

The JD one was only A$1.18 more.