oil filter brand and part no. for 05 elantra

I pick up filters at the dealer. Heard some not nice things about aftermarket on elantras.

Purolator Pure One filters are very high quality and work well on the Elantra. I use them on my own Elantra GT. As Andrew suggested, you can't go wrong with the OEM filter, either.

Avoid Fram filters like the plague! Rumor has it that they're the filters that prompted Hyundai's warning regarding aftermarket filters.

Correct. They have much less filter area and inferior contruction compared to other filters. They're crap.

That's a very difficult thing to prove, which is probably what Fram is counting on. Additionally, they probably work just fine in most applications. They don't work well on the newer Elantras.

Think about it for a moment. Fram sells hundreds of millions of dollars worth of filters every year. Even if they had to pay out a $100,000 or so in settlements per year, so what? It's a drop in the bucket (1/10 of

1 percent). There is no financial incentive to make their filters better, but there is a significant incentive to make them cheaper and promote the hell out of them. Since filters are blind items, people buy into the advertising hype. Apparently, they've decided that cheap is the way to go. Other companies like Wix and Purlolator are more interested in making quality products.

You can also use a Kia filter if the Kia dealer is closer to you or your Hyundai dealer pi$$e$ you off. The filters are now clearly marked Hyundai/Kia.

NAPA Gold filters are very well made and available at any NAPA auto parts store. There are other good choices available at real auto parts stores (Wix, Baldwin, Mann, Denso, etc.) as well, but NAPA Gold is an easy one to recommend because of consitent high quality and wide availability.

On the other hand, other than Purolator, I would not use most of the filters sold at the chain auto parts stores or the Big Box Marts.

John

It varies from by filter models, but it can be 30% of more.

Purolator apparently makes filters for a lot of other companies. They make the generic filters that Pep Boys sells, too. The Pure One is their premium filter that used a better filter medium than their standard filters.

$5 to $6 dollar filter recommended by manufacturer (OEM), save a buck or two (and take a chance, perhaps $8 per year) for a $15,000 to $25,000 car.

I'll never understand.