Alright so I'm changing oil in the van, I didn't bother warming it up so it's going to take a bit an hour for everything to drain out. But before we're doing that, I figured we'd have a look at these magnets that tend to stick on the oil filter. I've been doing this for a number of years, I've never really considered what effect it actually had. Aside from you know magnets, they're going to attract metal particles inside the filter, stick them there, if they're there, they can't do any harm. But I've never actually bothered to take a magnet oil filter apart and have a look so I have with an effort not to disturb the magnet while taking this off and cleaning it up. So let's just nibble it away inside and see if we've got little heaps of metal particles where the magnets are. Alright so nibbling my way into this pretty absolutely impossible since the filter's made out of way to thick metal for that to be an option. No wonder. Anyway using a hammer and a screw driver I managed to break it apart so let's see what we've got. Valve stuff. Proper spring in these, I love these em filters, they have been very high quality. Let's get this out. That's not coming out. I think I've managed to disturb the magnets quite a bit in my violence. It has to happen if they're gathered and in metal particles. We're still going to be floating around in there. Methi business. Alright, so that's the filter. This is all going to be fine stuff. Let's have a look inside. There you go. That are definitely signs of metal sticking to magnets. Alright so we've got a magnet. No to be positioned over the lead there. We've got a magnet there. One right there. This might have led and one of the bottom but it's not going to show us anything since it's a bit of oil still sloshing around but if we've got a magnet right there. If you look over side you can see there's a bit of metal there. I mean this magnetists have moved since we're made above we've got a big collection of metal. Right there. Some of the probably scream of my engines giving up since it's full metal but there's this pros and normal I'd say since this is pre-filter side you wouldn't see this in your sump ever. There's this kind of stuff that is supposed to get trapped in your oil filter. So we've got another magnet right there. Look over there if I move a magnet you can see the slosh of fine metal particles moving about and all of this would be getting stuck in my oil filter. We actually filter element. It's not for magnets. Ah that one's pretty good. Right on the other side of it you can see there's a magnet. There's a bunch of crap. Was just sticking there. No I think there's bigger pieces are aluminium since we're not moving around with a magnet but since we've got this tiny tiny iron particles around there which are sticking to a magnet if they just seem to just be kind of trapped in the aluminium there. That's fantastic. And yeah we're not going to see anything at the bottom. We just magnetically hold them and spring in lots. Get rid of that. There's some metal down there. Oh yeah. If I were to ever magnet stuff moving about. Never so slightly. It's sunny outside so I can't bother well see the LCD on the camera. I hope you guys are seeing some of this. That's definitely been some debris collection by these magnets. I'm not sure if it's actually going to make a difference if it's a stuff which would actually prolong the life of a filter and a meaningful way that doesn't seem to be any giant domain of stuff there but this machine seems to be really, really fine particles. So perhaps it's even some particles which we do otherwise just gone straight through the filter element. And here's the actual filter element. This has been sitting in a diesel for 12hz in kilometres so it's bound to be rather black. I would wager that this is an excellent filter because these are not cheap and they're made in Finland but a company which specializes in industrial filters. We just seem to kind of make vehicle filters on the side. I'm not sure what it's made out of. It seems to be. It feels papery but it's rather dense. We've got a metal clambver holding the ends together. We've got a big metal cylinder in the centre there to make sure it maintains its shape. Don't forget further into this. I'm getting the actual filter film aid of this assembly seems to be almost impossible and if we look in there at the top, you might be able to see that they've used some kind of like a potting compound to actually hold the paper onto the metal surface. It's like all covered in some plasticky waxy stuff which is set very hard. So yeah, this seems to be a pretty decent quality filter. I bought it like a batch of these for my vehicles since I've got kind of frams since that's pretty much the only thing can get us a normal automated store. See you there you go. Magnets in the oil filter do something. The metal particles don't just travel past them. Some of them do get stuck to magnets. And in other news, M filters made in Finland seem to be a pretty decent quality. Okay, thank you for watching. Cheerio.