Oil Filter prices

[tenn]

Any suggestions on the best oil filter prices for RTV 900? Found a 6 pack on ebay with shipping about 37.00 - but it is an off brand.

 

[85Hokie]

Any suggestions on the best oil filter prices for RTV 900? Found a 6 pack on ebay with shipping about 37.00 - but it is an off brand.

For the duration and protection - I would buy them from Kubota. Not to say that others do not make good filters............but if I need a new "heart" I would not want a off-brand one !!

My filters run less than 12 bucks a pop - or something like that, and since the first one lasted almost a year (50 hours) I can skip that one cup of coffee a month to pay for that one.

Tried Messicks?

http://www.messicks.com/partdetail/HH150-32430.aspx
or

colemans?

http://www.colemanequip.com/parts/KubotaParts/HH150-32430/184

true - 10 bucks a pop - so they cost about 5 DOLLARS more than the off brands......I would not save that 5 bucks!

 

[Orange Turbo]

I'm with 85Hokie,
The extra 5.00 bucks helps me sleep at night,, I've seen a few bad filters in my day.......Some things just need to be right.

 

[olthumpa]

I use NAPA brand oil filters -same as WIX - and have never had a problem. My tractor is 33 years old though. I used Kubota filters for the first few changes.

 

[tenn]

If the Kubota filters were made in the states I would buy them. They are made in China, same as the off brand ones.

 

[Pappy]

I really don't understand the mindset of buying a $12,000 machine and worrying about saving $5.00 on an oil filter that probably gets changed twice a year at most.

I would assume that if money was that tight you wouldn't wave bought an RTV900 in the first place.


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[85Hokie]

If the Kubota filters were made in the states I would buy them. They are made in China, same as the off brand ones.

See the mindset here is that China make shyty products.....not true!
Back in the day , everything was made in Japan or Taiwan.....and we considered that junk too.

It is NOT the Chinese making junk - it is the simple fact that those companies (american) wish to make as much as possible on a product and will do anything possible to get there, sure the labor is cheaper, sure the working conditions suck, but WE americans dont care - we are cheap too (unless you are willing to pay for something real )

the thing is - China like any other country WILL make anything that we wish, oil filters too , AS LONG As they follow the specifications to the letter.....
Now if you want an oil filter to spin on and cardboard filtering media - China can make that, however - if the KUBOTA filters are made in China - I hope that THOSE kubota specifications are meet to the letter.

All the people here would rather pay for something that has a long history of being well made as opposed to buying something american made that is not the quality of the original product.

If you go into Harbor Freight tools - would you buy a tool that your life depended upon is use? O hell no............would I go in there to buy a $4 hammer that will be used and abused....yes......

Some things that HF make are fine and cheap - others are cheap and are not bad.

The point that I am trying to make is that is not about who is making it - rather than WHO is designing them and who's QA are you following??

I will go to the Kubota store or Messicks or Colemans and get my filters.....cause if anything goes wrong - at least I followed their protocol, even though others have stated that a company cannot void a warranty due to different brands of filters...........

it is your $5 ......spend it were you wish!

 

[sawmill]

Well said, Hokie. My sentiments exactly.

 

[Tooljunkie]

Sales rep from hastings stated they replaced a caterpillar engine due to a filter failure.
This tells me two things,that i can say in one sentence: hastings stands behind their failing filters.
Tough choice.
But oil filters do in fact fail, not all-but most.