Been on a few sites that are selling the original Subaru oil filters, but each picture is different, some say on them made in USA, some say made in Canada and others say well Japanese writing all over them

Why is this, are some original and others not?

 

youll have to watch there was a bad batch of blue ones come through

 

Where you here that from?

 

Yeah that's true about the blue ones, get a genuine black one from import car parts

 

its a batch number you have to watch for pretty sure martynj posted it end of last year I've a bunch of them so checked them all, did the fram filter not work out?

 

The answer is becuase Subaru do not make oil filters.

They get other manufacturer's to make them on their belhalf, then brand and box them with Subaru logos.

The second part of this answer is Subaru do not use one sole manufacturer. they use a number of them depending on supply/demand/contracts/location/logistics/cost etc.

There is also the likeliness that some "genuine" filters you see on places like eBay may actually be counterfiets too.

 

One of places i looked was import car parts

 

Found the link but doesn't work anymore?

https://www.scoobynet.com/general-te...er-recall.html

 

Yes it does.

Anyway I pointed out the problem with the blue filters years ago.
https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-...l-filters.html

 

black filter from icp job done

 

This link doesn't work

http://fram.com/sites/default/f/uplo...stribution.pdf

And neither does your youtube video link?