PUR Water Filtration System with 2 Filters

PUR Water Filter Review Hack

Once, long ago, PUR was a great company with great water filtering technology. I still love their filters! Unfortunately, a big bad company named Proctor and Gamble bought them and messed them over in favor of customer abuse. This was accomplished using two methods. The first method is called ‘planned obsolescence’ whereby their faucet mount apparatus leak and die briefly after the end of the warranty period. (It didn’t used to be that way in the good old days). The second method is called ‘timed death’ whereby their apparatus lock up their enclosed filters at a preset volume of filtered water, whether the filter is actually used up or not.

Planned obsolescence can be overcome by calling up Proctor and Gamble BEFORE your warranty runs out, and letting them know that your PUR apparatus is squirting water all over your kitchen. Ask them to send you a replacement or a replacement certificate. If need be, call repeatedly asking to speak to the President of P&G, never taking ‘no’ for an answer. Then take your certificate and get another PUR apparatus. This will provide you with a lifetime for the apparatus more representative of the lifetime of original PUR apparatus. You’ve cheated no one. P&G’s cheat on you has been overcome.

The timed death lockout of your filter is extremely easy to overcome. Pull out the filter from the apparatus. This resets the nasty timing device to zero again. Put your filter back in. TADA! You’re done. Your filter will work as before. Note, however, that PUR filters do eventually get clogged with stuff. You’ll know when to change it.

I hope that helps everyone restore goodness to the universe. I still love PUR filters better than any other brand and wouldn’t be without them. It’s P&G’s customer abuse that’s not worth liking. Shame on you P&G.
Rating: 3 / 5

I had been looking for a faucet mount water purifier and bought this one (without reading the reviews). Also, bought a years supply of filters. Within two months the filter started cracking and leaking. The product is not made to handle even moderate water pressure. If I don’t want to get squirted, I have to turn the water down so low that it just dribbles through. Water tastes good–but the product is poor quality.
Rating: 2 / 5

I have been using the 3 stage faucet months for years. The water taste is the best, the automatic shutoff when the filter is full is also a plus. However the faucet mount hardware is cheap metal looking plastic. They went from a 5 year warranty a few years ago to a 90 day warranty now. I have broken a couple trying to replace the filter and trying to remove it from the faucet. Basically decide where you want it to go and leave it. They need to improve the design, not very easy to replace the filter.
Rating: 3 / 5

The first PUR filter that I bought last 2 or 3 months till it started leaking. So I bought this new version, it is working perfect! Now you dont have to lift the hole filter, just the black part of it, so probably it wont leak anymore. I think the problem its solve! Anyway, its a good price for a good look, and good water!
Rating: 5 / 5

At work we are trying to learn to live healthy. I work for a local government office. It sent a bad signal to purchase water from a spring water company. So we did away with our water bottles and purchased a refrigerator. The water was filtered but came out very, very slow. So I suggested we get a water filtration on our sink in the kitchen and everyone just loves it. They also love the fact that we can tell when it is time to change the filter using the light display.
Rating: 5 / 5