Ford FE filters, Ford Explorer filters, Jeep filters, Corvette filters, Ford Diesel filters, I have had many vehicles in my lifetime, and none were as low capacity as our Kia.mooney201 are you used to another kind of filter, like something from a big truck? The optima filter size seems normal to me?
Yes over the years I have cut filters to see the media of different brands of filters. Baldwin and Wix were at that time using better filter material and more of it.If you think Kia filters are small, look at Mazda filters.
Kia 3.14" height 3.02" width
Mazda 2.59" height 2.7" width and these were used throughout all the models, as well as many other car manufacturers.
Don't believe the filter would be a problem when changed as scheduled and the only benefit of a larger filter would be the minuscule amount of additional oil that could be added due to a larger filter.
If you have time, take some oil filters apart and you'll find that some larger oil filters, size wise, will have less filter media than smaller filters. Have done this years ago with probably a dozen different filters and had them lined up on a shelf for quite some time, but like most items, to the trash they went.
Maybe you can locate a larger filter as the dimensions:
Gasket ID 2.13/2.15
Gasket OD 2.42/2.46
Thread M 20X1.5
Changing oil at those intervals, waste of time and money. First, there's not enough contaminates in the oil to fill the filter and the engine issue is not from debris. Think about the term they use and then review engine failures from 7,000 to 200,000 miles, doesn't make sense and I believe it's a structural issue with the GDI engine. Just had the engine replaced in our '11 EX 2.0T with 172,000 miles, ran and performed perfectly except that during the oil consumption test, 2 qts 730 miles.The smaller the oil filter the less contaminates it will hold. I change oil at 3,000 miles on most of our cars, but because the Kia has contaminate issues, I first changed our oil at 1,000 miles and the last one was at 2,000 miles. I will extend that out to 3,000 miles for the next oil change. So when the odometer shows 5,000 miles I will do our third oil change. We are at 2,100 miles now.
I don't agree with you. I heard that some of the problems of Kia engine failures were do to contaminates from the factory where they built the engines. I have been building engines since the 1960's and have always made the first engine oil change at 1,000 miles on street engines and just after break in period on race engines and I always kept a spotless engine room. I have had only one engine failure and that was due to to a nitrous oxide solenoid failure on a race engine.Changing oil at those intervals, waste of time and money. First, there's not enough contaminates in the oil to fill the filter and the engine issue is not from debris. Think about the term they use and then review engine failures from 7,000 to 200,000 miles, doesn't make sense and I believe it's a structural issue with the GDI engine. Just had the engine replaced in our '11 EX 2.0T with 172,000 miles, ran and performed perfectly except that during the oil consumption test, 2 qts 730 miles.
Stay with the factory oil change intervals.
Here's my answer to you, similar to my above response.I don't agree with you. I heard that some of the problems of Kia engine failures were do to contaminates from the factory where they built the engines. I have been building engines since the 1960's and have always made the first engine oil change at 1,000 miles on street engines and just after break in period on race engines and I always kept a spotless engine room. I have had only one engine failure and that was due to to a nitrous oxide solenoid failure on a race engine.
To be fair, for all we know he may have a very fat wallet and/or plenty of free time; that and/or maybe he has shares in petroleum product companies--LOL j/k. He did state that his next oil change will be at 5K miles, after which I presume his OCI from that point forward will be every 5K miles, at least for that vehicle; nothing wrong with 5K mile OCIs, as it's not too excessive or too long an interval.But I don't see the value of aggressive oil/filter changes. It's not going to hurt the car but it will hurt your wallet and your free time.
Yes, like I said, the SMART thing to do is to make the first oil change early if there is any possibility of oil contamination from the factory. Then change at normal intervals.To be fair, for all we know he may have a very fat wallet and/or plenty of free time; that and/or maybe he has shares in petroleum product companies--LOL j/k. He did state that his next oil change will be at 5K miles, after which I presume his OCI from that point forward will be every 5K miles, at least for that vehicle; nothing wrong with 5K mile OCIs, as it's not too excessive or too long an interval.
Obviously you can't read either.I think there is a confusion about how the problem with Kia engine failures was from restricted/clogged oil passages, because there was contamination in them from manufacturing that would never have gotten in there during normal operation.
There is nothing you can do to affect that clogging of the engine passages, because it's a problem with the tiny passages and not the oil filter. You can change the oil and filter every single day, but that won't affect the clogged passages or remove the contaminants from the tiny passages. It's just trapped in there from when the engine was made.
Any oil filter is capable of holding a crap-load of contaminants. But I don't see the value of aggressive oil/filter changes. It's not going to hurt the car but it will hurt your wallet and your free time.
I think the main concern about oil changes is the change in viscosity of the oil, especially if you are using the turbo a lot and excessively heating the oil a lot.
If you are concerned about accumulating lots of contaminants, maybe you should look at what you think is falling apart in the engine and fix that? Or do an oil quality test to see how many contaminants are actually there, so you can rest at ease and not just make your decisions based on fear or speculation without any evidence.