Camel413
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2010
- Location
- South East Missouri
- TDI
- 96 Passat Wagen Totaled, 95 Passat GLX future conversion
I am pretty sure that I read on here that the fuel filter on our cars are supposed to be replaced/changed every 20k miles. I feel like this is a bit excessive. I just bought a new WIX fuel filter for $30 since I have 20k miles since the last time I changed it. After buying it I think my current filter still have plenty of life left. The last time I changed my fuel filter I cut it open and it still looked great after having somewhere from 25-30k miles on the old filter. I may wait to change mine until I get to 30-40k unless someone can explain something that I dont know or dont understand.
It doesnt really make much sense to go by mileage instead of gallons of fuel ran thought the filter. Take our cars that get 40-50 mpg VS some of the diesel pickup trucks such as Chevy, Ford, Dodge that gets much lower fuel economy. They are going to run a lot more fuel through their filters in the same 20k miles. I do understand that they "designed" the system on our cars ect ect but I think they can go a bit longer.
Any insight would be helpful.
It doesnt really make much sense to go by mileage instead of gallons of fuel ran thought the filter. Take our cars that get 40-50 mpg VS some of the diesel pickup trucks such as Chevy, Ford, Dodge that gets much lower fuel economy. They are going to run a lot more fuel through their filters in the same 20k miles. I do understand that they "designed" the system on our cars ect ect but I think they can go a bit longer.
Any insight would be helpful.