Oil filter K&N or OEM Subaru

No complaints from my 16 STI running Pennzoil Ultra Platinum and K&N filter.

people are really set on the subaru filters as opposed to fram or others, and they’re really not very expensive so i just do it.

Brand is personal preference tbh.. ive seen good and bad reviews with royal purple but no evidence that its actually bad. My main 2 that i use are Delo 15W-40 Full Synthetic Heavy Duty Turbo Diesel oil and when thats sold out i run Mobil 1 Full Synthetic 15w-40. And i put a K&N oil filter every time, changing oil at 5K miles and ive had no issues using it as a daily and autocross car. Backroads racing on the weekends, roadtrips, some drifting. Got 271K miles on it and no motor issues.

Have done many oil changes on both my Tellurides, and used K&N every-time, better quality than OEM.

Not only is it fine, it’s widely considered the best option for the WRX. I have had multiple cars and always did my own oil changes. On my first oil change on the WRX I used my (at that time) tried and true Mobil 1 high performance oil filter and the seal blew and made a mess. Luckily I caught it before any damage was done. Since then I’ve exclusively used Subaru OEM oil filters and had zero issues.

My ‘11 CR-V AWD is sitting pretty at 285,000 miles and I’ve been using a combination of Valvoline MaxLife Engine Oil High Mileage Full Synthetic and K&N High Performance Oil Filter for the last 100k miles.

Valvoline High Mileage w/ K&N Gold filter, I've had no problems, and it runs smooth

Also, use the best filter you can afford and that means K&N (I hate that VW Mann 3D world junk).

As good as their airfilters are... their oil filters are as shite. They leak and are downright dangerous.

The filter I was running was a K&N. I removed the old filter and it had totally collapsed. The oil light would come on at every stop in the first 10-15 minutes of driving. Especially in cold weather. After changing the old K&N filter that was in horrible condition, I have had no issues whatsoever.