Sadly enough, autozone no longer carries the Fram 617/616 filters in stock anymore. I tried to get one last week and they said "its a special order item now" could take weeks to get one from them, and they are $10.49 here + tax. They DO still carry "STP" brand ones that "fit" our cars, they looked mighty scary though, metal looked like heavy tin foil with holes poked in it, it was made in india, and the rubber gasket on the bottom had way too big of an opening! Don't buy one! The box on the shelf was Dusty. Yikes. So we ended up getting another Austrian made dealership one.

I think we're all going to have to either use OEM MB/Hengst/Mann/Bosch, etc pretty soon, these simply aren't carried in stores anymore.

We'll probably just order another hoarde of Hengst ones again. At $9.27 they sure beat the $17.48 we pay at the stealer. Plus, having used well over two dozen of them now between the two cars, they seem to work just fine.

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