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Changed my tune on those aftermarket fuel filters for the 6.7 Powerstroke
Honestly, my buddy Jake kept telling me to stick with Motorcraft filters on my personal truck, but I figured the cheaper ones from the parts store were fine. I put a set on last fall, and by spring I was chasing a rough idle and losing power on hills. Took it to the shop and they found the paper element had collapsed and was sending junk downstream. Cost me about $300 in diagnostics and the right filters to fix it. Anyone else get burned trying to save a few bucks on filters?
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nguyen.lily7mo ago
Guess that's the expensive way to learn the lesson about cheap parts.
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davidyoung7mo ago
Depends on what broke, sometimes cheap is fine.
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olivia_moore6mo ago
When you say "sometimes cheap is fine", what kind of parts are you actually thinking of?
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joel_clark377mo ago
Oh man, been there. I tried a cheap belt for my car once and it snapped in a week. Ended up getting the good one and it's been fine for years.
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