Counterfeit Oil Filters

[Cormanus]

so the red in the filter is a dead give away that it's a fake filter?

I'm beginning to think that we simply don't have enough information to draw that conclusion. If you look at the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Rn5MFaqDk&feature=emb_imp_woyt]video in the link from 2017ex's original post, it referred to fake D01 filters. I don't think we've yet seen a picture of a D02 that came from a Honda dealer (I may be wrong). Who knows, it may have red packing and be perfectly good.

pekingduck has posted wisely on this question, [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=16787&pid=294063#pid294063]here and [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=16787&pid=294198#pid294198]here.

The answer to your question, PD,

Toyo Roki is an OEM Honda supplier, with plants in China, US, and other countries

Wako Filter is an OEM Honda supplier, with a plant in China.

So how do we automatically conclude that any Wako filter made in China is not OEM?

FWIW, here's a pic of my D01 Roki filter, made in US (formerly Filtech).

is that we can't without having more information.