Fareway Lawncare
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Hello, I have been ordering engine oil & hydraulic oil filters from J-Thomas.
I noticed that the oil filters look identical to the hydro filters & there is no distinguishing marks except for a sticker on the box. One batch of the hydro filters did look different than the oil filters (they were black & had more & smaller perforations to the filter paper), but all of last years order & in some of this years order, the filters looked identical.
When I called J-Thomas, the order taker checked something & told me the filters were interchangeable. I informed her that the hydro filter were twice the price of the oil & asked why I was paying twice the price for identical filters. She put me over to a technician who said no she had made a mistake, they were not interchangeable...the hydro are supposed to be 10 micron.
I decided to cut the filters open & here is what I found.
Opinions please.
The first pic show a Toro Hydro Filter...folowed by one of J-Thomas' Black hydro filters(same part# as the other hydro filters in the pic)...followed by
three of the J-Thomas eXmark hydro filter...folowed byt hree J-Thomas engine oil filters.
More pics to follow
I noticed that the oil filters look identical to the hydro filters & there is no distinguishing marks except for a sticker on the box. One batch of the hydro filters did look different than the oil filters (they were black & had more & smaller perforations to the filter paper), but all of last years order & in some of this years order, the filters looked identical.
When I called J-Thomas, the order taker checked something & told me the filters were interchangeable. I informed her that the hydro filter were twice the price of the oil & asked why I was paying twice the price for identical filters. She put me over to a technician who said no she had made a mistake, they were not interchangeable...the hydro are supposed to be 10 micron.
I decided to cut the filters open & here is what I found.
Opinions please.
The first pic show a Toro Hydro Filter...folowed by one of J-Thomas' Black hydro filters(same part# as the other hydro filters in the pic)...followed by
three of the J-Thomas eXmark hydro filter...folowed byt hree J-Thomas engine oil filters.
More pics to follow