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Bluff Park, Alabama - God's Country! 2011 PW VV | So, went to the Dealer to get oil, filter and washer. I get this filter: Looks OK, then... WHAT?!?!?! it's empty!!! Had to run to Autozone and get a Bosch! Anyone seen this happen before?
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Kansas City, MO | must say - that is a little scary -------- and worse when it is your bike. Good eye
we cant take anything for granted |
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Jal NM | No never saw anything like it before. |
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New Bohemia, VA | one in a million shot and you WIN! I had a fram filter that was malformed at the lip of the casing. The only time I didn't run my jeep after doing an oil change. I was my way to work the next morning when it starting making noise and the oil light came on. Oil was coming out in a steady stream around that seam. |
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Akron, Ohio | I think you got an "AIR FILTER" instead of an oil filter. :-) Just sayin. |
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Fredonia, WI United States | Wow! Buy a lottery ticket today!
On a side note: I went to the local dealer the other day to get an oil change kit. Price tag was $73! Why can I get a full service oil change on my V-8 Chevy Silverado for less than $40, but a do it yourself kit for my V-twin costs nearly twice as much? |
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Puddle Jumper
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Georgia | I have two Vic oil filters here and looking at the angle you took that pic, they look empty too but once tilted and looking along the wall and up close to where you look in from, I can see it isn't empty. I don't use these so they are just taking up space in my drawer.
Not doubting yours is empty, just saying that your pic makes it nearly impossible to discern it is empty based on what the two I have here look like.
Take that thing back to the dealer and get your $$ back and perhaps the dealer can report such a thing to ma Vic. |
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Iron Butt
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Central New York | GeekVisionRider - 2012-03-16 10:47 AM Wow! Buy a lottery ticket today! On a side note: I went to the local dealer the other day to get an oil change kit. Price tag was $73! Why can I get a full service oil change on my V-8 Chevy Silverado for less than $40, but a do it yourself kit for my V-twin costs nearly twice as much? Because they can! There are die hards that would pay $140. |
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Iron Butt
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Central New York | cryptodogg - 2012-03-16 12:15 PM I have two Vic oil filters here and looking at the angle you took that pic, they look empty too but once tilted and looking along the wall and up close to where you look in from, I can see it isn't empty. I don't use these so they are just taking up space in my drawer. Not doubting yours is empty, just saying that your pic makes it nearly impossible to discern it is empty based on what the two I have here look like. Take that thing back to the dealer and get your $$ back and perhaps the dealer can report such a thing to ma Vic. May not be empty, but a gasket would be nice. |
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Georgia | glighto11 - 2012-03-16 12:19 AM
cryptodogg - 2012-03-16 12:15 PM I have two Vic oil filters here and looking at the angle you took that pic, they look empty too but once tilted and looking along the wall and up close to where you look in from, I can see it isn't empty. I don't use these so they are just taking up space in my drawer. Not doubting yours is empty, just saying that your pic makes it nearly impossible to discern it is empty based on what the two I have here look like. Take that thing back to the dealer and get your $$ back and perhaps the dealer can report such a thing to ma Vic. ?May not be empty, but a gasket would be nice.
Isn't there a gasket? At least I think the outter black ring is the gasket....hard to see in the pic. I could post a pic of one of the two I have here but my knee's aren't the best holders for the filter and you may go blind. lmao |
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| I have been to more than one dealer where it was cheaper to let them change my oil with vic oil and filter than it was to buy the kit and do it myself. |
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Pittsburgh, PA | makes you wonder if a dealer was changing your oil, would they of noticed that? also it shows the high QC standards of this oil filter.. LOL |
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Akron Ohio area | glighto11 - 2012-03-16 12:17 PM GeekVisionRider - 2012-03-16 10:47 AM Wow! Buy a lottery ticket today! On a side note: I went to the local dealer the other day to get an oil change kit. Price tag was $73! Why can I get a full service oil change on my V-8 Chevy Silverado for less than $40, but a do it yourself kit for my V-twin costs nearly twice as much? Because they can! There are die hards that would pay $140. My dealer, All Ohio Motorsports in Bedford Heights Ohio, charges $50 for an oil change. At that price it is silly to do it myself. |
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Bay of Gigs, WA | Gaskets are overrated.
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Bluff Park, Alabama - God's Country! 2011 PW VV | Hey biggie....how long to get to your shop from Bham....? 50 bucks oils and all?!?!?!? |
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