"Paul J. Burr" wrote:
>
> This Fram thread has run through many of the car lists the past several
> years. I don't doubt the word of people who have used the product for
> decades (myself included) suddenly encountering masses of defective filters.
> And guess what? The rash of failures coincides exactly with Fram's decision
> to move the majority of it's manufacuting "offshore". Ahh, that corporate
> euphemism for stiffing the American workers that put the quality in your
> product! Fram used to be an entirely USA built product. Now it's just a
> name stamped on a box, the contents coming from who knows where.
Hate to say, but I just checked an unused Fram filter (about two years
old) in the garage, and both the container and the filter are marked
"Made in USA." Fram Filter division of AlliedSignal is in E. Providence,
RI.
Cheers.
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