Tried looking for a thread dedicated specifically for oil filters here in the forum but found none. So let me be allowed to start one....

Anyway, I am from Cebu and have limited options when looking for better oil filter brands. I tried scouting from various shops and most sell VIC Oil Filters... My ride by the way is a Fortuner Dsl AT 2016 and when I went to Toyota, the part number they gave me is: 90915-YZZD2.

If I buy in Toyota, the oil filter costs P 503.80 Pesos.

VIC Brand is C-111 which costs only P 165.00.

Went to another shop and saw Bosch O 1042 which costs P 190.00

And lastly at Ace Hardware, I saw Purlator L10241 which cost P 229.75.

From the above available brands, I have read hear that VIC is not good; while Purlator oil filters sold in Ace Hardware are fake. I also consider Toyota's OEM as overpriced. This left me with Bosch but read somewhere that while this is a German brand, yet for the third world countries, the supplies here are from China.... The shops here said that VIC is Japan made so I am quite confused....

BTW, I intend to replace the oil filter every 5K Km... with a fully synthetic oil every 10k Km with in between 5k Km change of oil filter and top-up of fully syn oil when necessary....

Thinking also of buying on-line on other oil filter brands but I am afraid I might be buying the fake ones...

Pls help....