RE: Mann oil filter for M20 engine

[Russ Maki <rinard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Horst, your experience sounds highly applicable. I'll stick with
Mahle filters for the E30 and save the Mann filters for my Audi 4K.
Russ


> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 06:40:05 +0100
> From: Horst Apfelthaler <Horst.Apfelthaler@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: Mann oil filter for M20 engine
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I can tell you my personal exerience with Mann oil filters on M20 engines. I
> noticed 10 degrees more
> oil temperature and 1 bar less oil pressure during hot idling. -  Even the
> oil pressure lamp was flickering.
> 
> After swapping the Mann filter for a Purolator or a Bosch filter everything
> was OK again.
> 
> These symptoms happend with 2 Mann filters (1 bought 5 years ago, last
> bought 2 years ago - both
> thrown away after 1000km).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Horst
> http://silverstone.fortunecity.com/chicane/541/
> 
> '80 323i project car with 2.7l i-engine
> '89 320iC
> '95 A4 Tdi

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