Miata Mailing List: March 1996, Message #134



     


   From: Tom Manson 
Subject: Fram Oil Filter Deal
   Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:52:09 -0500

Miateers,
Well I finally got around to making my periodic procurement of 
sale-priced Fram oil filters.  This sale had them at $2.27 each!  Such a 
deal.  Don't pass this up folks.

In this part of the country (for you Miata Mailing List readers) we have 
these stores called "Ames."  I don't know with what chain they are othewise 
associated, but there is likely some connection of some sort in other 
parts of the country.  Anyway, every so often (every few months or so) 
Ames has this sale on Fram filters, and I go out and clean their shelves 
of PH6607s.  Typically they are on sale for $2.50 each (advertised as 2 
for $5), and they usually have a half dozen on their shelf.  So I grab 
all they have and try not to look like I'm taking advantage of them.  I 
put about 600 miles a week on Mimi, so I end up cahnging my oil about 
once a month.  The half dozen oil filters last me several months therefore 
and I watch the newspaper ads for the Ames oil filter sale respectively.

For a highly rated filter like Fram (perhaps partly my opinion, since I 
didn't read the CR article and don't have an immeasurable amount of 
respect for CR anyway), $2.50 is a good price, but to get them this time for 
$2.27 was really a nice surprise (I think I paid $13.xx with tax for the 
half dozen I bought yesterday)!  But the sale only lasts a week when it's 
offered so you have to watch closely and get on it when it appears.

Now if only I could get oil for a deal like that!

Later,
Tom Manson, Frederick, MD		
Product Assurance Manager, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Greenbelt, MD 20770
President, Chesapeake Area Miata	301-220-5670 (O)  301-694-6721 (H)
Manson@bigdog.fred.net			301-873-4004 (M)
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