8:12 This was shot 5 years ago - did you find the auto-focus switch on your camera in the meantime? 🤪😎

I was not convinced by this video, comparing a used "swollen" oil filter material length against a new one - you said it yourself "they are not that dissimilar in length as I thought".... "this is not a very scientific comparison"... They would probably be exactly the same length brand new unused. Also from what i could see the cheaper company had worked out how to use less metal and length casing to achieve the same filtration as again you said yourself "the filter material is the same height" so they are more economical with the earth's resources and they are actually better for using less and charging less. This comparison is worthless.

You dont fight junk by saving pennies, or not knowing what you're buying and where its REALLY made.

The difference in price is now £20 for my car

It's really tough life there in UK. Here I just open up an e-shop and select the specific part/brand which I want. I always get what I order.

Euro car parts…ah yes, the supplier who always has 50% off😂 why do they do that when you know it’s just the same price everywhere else? I don’t use them anymore, it’s insulting to be treated like a muppet

That Crossland oil filter is actually a rebadged *HENGST* oil filter. I now recognise the construction from this other video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmK4kIGsbJ6Uh7M So it's still a top quality German oil filter (made in their Poland plant), which you can use with confidence.

The only crossland filter I buy is the pollen filter. For my Beamer its £2 vs £56 for the Mann filter...

Suspect the Crosland is made in Pakistan or India...like "hand made". A lot of filters made for the EU market are made in China in brand new factories.

The Bosch filter on my daughter's Corolla Verso rusted away!

In many cases I don't think it's worth going for anything other than the filter supplied by the car's manufacturer. When looking at the overall cost of running a car, the extra few pounds spent on a genuine filter is insignificant if you treat it as insurance that gives peace of mind, particularly when aftermarket parts suppliers play tricks like this. It's a minefield that can easily be avoided.

Also try returning something GSF and euro car parts are anything but cheap now.

The crosland has the same number of return holes as the mazda filter (6) yet the Mann has only 4....not sure then if this makes a difference

A filter is a filter in my opinion, and now that there is a big price difference, crosland are good enough to filter contaminants. In any case you should change the oil and filter regularly, then you won’t have any issues.

Great video. Halfords stock these crosland filters. Was going to get one today (sunday) but after seeing the construction i'll pass, and wait until tomorrow and get my usual filter from my favourite autoparts retailer.

In all fairness, I had an oil change at Mr clutch and they used a mann filter. I just did an oil change myself this time round and used a mann filter too

Damn that crosland filter literally came apart as soon as you opened it , interesting to see but I will be staying away from it. Will just stick with mann or bosch

Not a part to skimp on. Genuine parts oil filter for the make of car is always the best way to go. Yes they cost a bit more. But not compared to replacing an engine

Halfords sell Crosland stuff now, they must have done some sort of deal with ECP to sell their service parts.

There's approx £4.50 difference between Crosland and Mann now...£8.89 v £13.49, MX5 filters...a Bosch filter is actually slightly cheaper than the Crosland at ECP

I allways use the genuine oil filter it aint worth haveing an engine failure from some cheap Chinese crap

I wouldn't purchase anything from euro car parts asked them for a premium battery for my peugeot 308 1.6 turbo diesel like and excide or yuasa or bosch they gave me a Lion battery it was top dollar cost me £115 for a Chinese manufactured there crooks

Would be good to see the Mazda filter cut open! Mazda original vs Mann

Crosland Filters were a Nottingham based manufacturer with a good reputation. Crosland went out of business and Euro Car Parts bought the brand - Need I say more !

Definitely interesting, but I don't thing the Crossland looks terrible. That said for a pound get the Mann

absolutely right what you saying

Luckily I've never bought a crosland filter from them. I usually go with Man or Mahle although I did once use a Bosch air and oil filter from them. Like you say, the price difference isn't that much anyway and you can tell the crosland air filter is absolute rubbish (I'd guess it has roughly 1/5th the surface area, for my car the crosland air filter is almost like a flat layer of filter meterial instead of having dense ridges like the other 3 from Man, Mahle and bosch).

Eurocarparts removed my bad review for a starline drop link. I bought it and thought the rubber looked like it was made from hard plastic, fitted it and within 1 week the bushes was cracking. I replaced them with lemforder drop links/bushes and they're allot better.

You’re a legend. Many thanks for taking your time to produce the video. Appreciate that. Beautiful work.

The Crossland looks like an O.E Saab filter inside

11:18 That's what she said. Also 6:00

the actual filter surface area looks similar

Mann are made in Lithuania 🇱🇹 like Bosch

another thing is when you order from ECP or Car Parts For Less they will be sent separately because they are separate invoices along with accounting related issues preventing them from being combined. each one has its own company turn over

nothing to do with ECP at all, this is to do with the brands and the RRP they provide along with selling price to ECP.. but as someone who unfortunately worked with ECP, i can confirm that they are a terrible company

Always used Crosland. Oil and filter change every 6k miles. My car has reached the moon (240k miles) and has never broken down.

AWESOME VIDEO, THANKYOU :)

Mann is the only one I'm aware of with a removal device formed onto the top of it.

Great video, nice to see how the bypass valves work and the Mann definately looks more "stout"? I suppose unless you have a problem with your engine or you cut open every filter you change you will never know if a filter has failed. Mann was on my list of three filters and you have made my mind up, cheers. 48 year old 1600GT Ford crossflow.

To be honest, oil filter is unlikely to fail if you service your car on time. I change my oil filter every other service and never ever had issues! Its a taxi, so huge milage done!

Honestly I've never had or family an engine issue related to oil or filters, always used the cheapest filter and fully synthetic available on cars all the way up to 320k miles. On a 100k+ car despite perfect regular maintenance it's always something else that scrap's a car eg. failed injector's, timing belt/chain due to design fault/seized pump's, ECU, DPF, cracked heads etc... Even had 30k cars require engine a complete replacement under warranty. Save your money, but keep up with regular maintenance and correct spec oil.

In the US, we got do much oil filter brands to choose from. I can understand why in the UK there's not much oil filter companies because u guys overseas don't distribute things all over the world like the US or Japan or China.

I don't think the Crossland one was to bad this time, probably not as bad as a fram for instance, but it would be hit and miss and depend on who supplied the generic filter at that time. I always buy Mann because I had a fram from a local once and it was terrible quality, swapped it within a week.

There's also a popular theory that Mann from Eurocarparts isn't the same quality as Mann from OEMs. For example Mann is the OEM for some of the German car manufacturers and apparently the ones bought from dealerships are much better than the ones bought from Eurocarparts.

I just very recently did an oil change on my 2006 Suzuki 2.0 GV, @ 83 K, prior to that I used a TJ oil filter ( i do my own oil changes now) because i have had problems with the Suzuki original part , (fitted during dealer service) on two occasions developing leaks at the oil filter gasket at around 3.5 K warranting the need to do a premature oil change. Both the TJ & Crosland filters are exactly the same size as the " Original" Suzuki logo,d part which would suggest that , that is a good thing?, because access down there is limited and the sizing is as such for a good reason. I bought my Crosland from halfords as it was in stock , I dont believe Halfords would sell poor products. And while its true that the Crosland box does not state the county of Manufacture, during the engine service I described , i fitted a new Bosch air filter and on the box it stated "made in South Korea" to use quote marks once " All that glitters aint gold" . I asked my trusted garage to renew my Serpentine belt recently and was surprised to see "Made in Argentina" stamped on it , just saying. but having said that, if the Crosland gives me similar trouble then i will look at other brands , including Bosch. Nice Video.

Autodoc does the same thing with its own brand Stark...

I usually use Euro car parts, but I needed a radiator for my 2003 Honda Accord which they didn't do. Bought it from buycarparts.co.uk which is another sales channel for German company autodoc. It was only £78 inc delivery, arrived in 3 days. Cheapest I could find in UK was £120 at my local independent motor factor.

tend to order Bosch stuff from ECP in the past, this time I ordered Crossland. The Crossland airfilter was a few millimetres too long and wouldnt quite click in the airbox (tried various things to squeeze it in, dont bother). re the Oil filter, it is not like the usual ones you see in the pictures, it had a plastic piece to fit into it, wasnt happy. I popped into the store as I know a keyworker who could, & they would not take returns during the epidemic !? So have got to wait now! Ordered off ebay and was cheaper, i tried a Bueprint airfilter as was great quality. Fed up of their stupid sales crap. still cheaper to amazon/ebay it.

I don't really get why the hits on ECP here. You can by these brands anywhere online, and make a conscious choice on price and quality. Where's the problem in a Crosland filter not being the same quality as a Mann or Bosch? There's not going to be much difference in price when they're cheap parts anyway.

I have bough exclusively cheap Chinese parts for about the last ten years. I'd rather not but I have saved so much money that it far outweighs and early failure or parts.