Purolators are made right next to my house here in Himachal Pradesh India,I use them regularly on my OM616 turbo without any ill effects and so do thousand others who own diesel vehicles,I also use BOSCH India filters and find them equally good.

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99 Gurkha with OM616 IDI turbo

2015 Gurkha with OM616 DI turbo

2014 Rexton W with OM612 VGT