Oil filter Fram or K&N

I ignore the Car Bros and continue to use house-branded Fram filters.

Filter Used : K&N HP-1008 (has a nut built into the filter for a 1" socket; recommended)

I have used K&N oil filters my entire life and never once had one leak from the nut portion of the filter housing

I used a fram filter for the first time on a recent oil change, synthetic endurance + kirkland 0w20. no issues so far.

Fram is terrible except their racing division filters like the HP18

Fram filters are awful.

K&N is probably the most annoying with the rounded off nut they expect you to use to get the filter off. I'll never buy one of those again.

K&N oil filters on the other hand, are like the thread count myth for bedsheets. You are paying a shitton more for 480 Egyptian cotton you'll throw out in 3000 mi.

I have pulled multiple K&n filters out that have looked a little bent like this. The smashed K&n is definitely shorter.

I was getting low oil pressure readings, not level, but it was caused by a cold snap and a cheap Fram filter collapsing under my frozen, sludgy 10w40.