Oil filter Mann or Castrol

Replaced the NGK Iridium spark plugs, MANN engine filter and cabin air filter a week after getting the car and was easing it with E85 and fuel cleaners before that as the owner told me it was sitting around for a year. Very happy with its idle noise and freeway speeds (in Mexico of course).

I like the MANN filters

Use VW or MANN filters. They really aren't much more expensive.

I use conventional oil (10w-40) and personally change it every 2,000 with a new Mann or Mahle filter.

the oil filters I've always used are MANN

a 5qt Castrol edge 0w-20 container is $19. + $8 for a filter .. $30 every 5K miles is cheap imo..

The filter I got from the dealer was a Volkswagen/Mann filter.

I was getting the low oil pressure warning on my 2012 Passat. I changed the oil, dropped the oil pan and cleaned it and the pickup tube. They were already in really good shape. I changed the oil filter too of course. Anyway the light isn't coming on at all now.

I've used the Mann HU 719/6X filter for our Mk5 2.5L engines for more than a decade, without issues. Personally I'd shy away from Fram, at least for these cars -- I've heard bad things about failures.

I loath pulling out the Mann filter that I use on my AMU motor. Total pain especially when the thing is like 200 degrees. Barely fits through but it always gets out of there somehow.