Volvo MD 2020 filters.

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I am looking for the best place to buy filters for a Volvo MD 2020. Is it always advisable to buy genuine Volvo filters or are the alternatives just as good?

The filters I need are. Oil 861473-7 and Fuel 861477-8.
 
There is no such thing as genuine Volvo filters,they are made by other manufactures,inlinefilters are not cheap by the time you add vat and postage.The cheapest source I have found is ebay but you will need to find the equivalents,if you dont want to do that try partsforengines which lists them,or simply pop down to your local motor factors and take the old ones with you if possible.
 
There are lots of websites showing equivalent numbers for filters.
I buy mine for MD2030, from eBay, and buy 2 years supplies at a time.
Volvo don't make any filters, belts etc. They just rebadge stuff.
 
Note that Volvo don't make oil either. ( or many other parts )
The FRAM equivalents that you want are P4186 and PH 2874 (can't remember which is fuel / oil) o. CAV filert is FF 176a.
I use the FRAM numbers as any retail outlet or motor factor will be able to convert from these numbers to another manufacturer if they don't stock FRAM items.
Enjoy the money you will save!
 
Another vote for Parts4Engines, allthough in desperation one gloomy Saturday afternoon I asked in a motor factor what the equivalent oil filter was for the part number stamped on the old MD2010 filter and was 'reliably informed' that the one off a Suzuki Jeep would be exactly a match. Comparing them - I could'nt argue.

Having said that, i replaced it with the Perkins ones from the above website later on that year as I kept having niggling doubts.
 
A search about on the internet shows that for my MD2030 I can buy a Dondaldson filter for about £4.70 delivered. (part P550335), and at the other extreme a Volvo badges filter for about £15-20, and worse the same Donaldson filter posted from Poland at £25.28 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/283127663349?chn=ps)

so you can pay a wide range of prices for much the same thing.
You can also but a filter that's not much good, few folds to the element and therefore little filtration area.
If you buy a good brand (there's many) you should get a filter for well under £10.

I buy my fuel filters similarly, a box at a time and that lasts years.
I have only one oil filter left now, (not including the spare I carry aboard), so need to order more soon.
 
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