So today i went to walmart to get oil and filter and in the book they didn't have anything in there for my 2003 audi a4. Then i went to autozone and in there book they had PH2870A and that seemed funny because at walmart that just happened to be the oil filter for a 2008 jetta i just purchased. So thinking something was funny i asked person who worked there what there computer says and they told me to get PH3569. I then went to the car and looked under the hood and filter said PH8A and guy working at autozone said that goes on a "FORD". So sorry for long story but i just got this car and want to know what oil filter i'm supposed to get....thanks

 

The jetta uses a smaller filter since their oil pan can hold about another qrt. The passat/A4 filter was changed to a much larger filter to increase oil capacity by about .5qrt due to sludge issues. There is a Ford filter that works and many have seen factory ford filters on their cars. It not big deal. Please dont use the Jetta filter on your car.

 

I get mine off of rockauto.com and if you can wait a couple days, i would do that. There is several options and really easy to find the right parts. I get 3 or 4 of the big MANN filters at a time.

 

I get mine at Autozone usually Mobil filter w/Mobil 1. They also carry K&N.

 

FRAM and Purolator make the big filters for our cars as well. A few bucks cheaper than the MANN filters and you don't have to pay shipping.

 

you really should avoid walmart brands and fram filters ....... its like buying Chinese electronics, cheap but in the long run will cost you much more than the good brand.

 

how are fram fliters an equivalent of "chinese electronics"?

 

For the love of god don't put a Fram or purolator on an audi. Both of those don't have a oil bypass valve built into them, in other words if you happen to get the filter plugged.........boom would a good noise to wrap it up. Either the oil filter would shoot off the oil cooler or the engine would cease to exist.

I have found that the NAPA Gold line filters are very well built, the K&N filters are good, WIX filters, MANN, or MAHLE are the ones you want to buy under my recommendation list. The Mobil one filters are about equal to the Napa filters, although they are smaller in capacity.

 

Good to know. I stand corrected.

 

Chinese electronics ( like anything else Chinese made ) and fram filters are the same in the way that they are cheap and complete CRAP