Amazon’ Fleetguard LF1400NN

[walterk]

Fleetguard has not responded to my email yet. However, I was able to call them and have an idea why. The amount of counterfeit filters online is MASSIVE! These fakes are no longer easily distinguished as they are very, very close to genuine filters. They have to be cut open to make a proper checkup. As per Fleetguard - anything form Ebay, Amazon is almost !00% counterfeit. They have no dealers or vendors there. Only authorized dealers that you can find on their website have their products.
Online stores of major dealers are good too but have to be checked and verified that they are an AUTHORIZED DEALER - Cummins, etc. I was told that in the last few years this problem has skyrocketed and Fleetgurad has no legal resources to shut these stores quickly enough. Cummins no longer owns them....

I am sending everything (oil, fuel, water filters) back to Amazon......These are 100% knockoffs that look !00% genuine. Crazy times!

UPDATE: i received an email from Fleetguard that basically restated what I was told on the phone before. Also, this is a serious problem for me because I own Volvo and Volvo dealers in South Florida no longer carry Fleetguard filters!
i continued this madness and went to a Kenworth dealer. Surprise! They had all the filters. The oil filter was definitely different on the inside and had the o-ring with tabs. But! The water separator filter looked 100% identical inside and out. There was no need to cut it as all parts were clearly visible. The filter strata had even the same pattern with kinks and bends. My takeaway is that unless one takes a microscope and see the differences in the composition of the material, there is no way to see if it's counterfeited on not.

Another Update: I thought I mention this as it is really funny and tragic all at the same time:
So, when I asked the guy at Volvo why they stopped selling Fleetguard filters, he told me people had trouble with them plugging prematurely. What!!! Is it possible that they were just doing their job and were not able to last long enough for their crazy oil change intervals!!! He brought Lubefine filters.... I asked about the micron rating for a fuel filter, but he conveniently was not able to get that information. Run Forest, run......!