The orange foam filter could be gently tapped to release the heavy particles and probably could be put back in service. The other one appears to be in not as good shape and could be changed.
C'mon man, be reasonable. You are purposely twisting what I said. Any reasonable person would correctly assume any motor oil made in recent years which would include SL, SM, SN, and SP.... You are purposely being ridiculous in your response.
Meh. I use Pro Selects almost exclusively now. I'm not worried about efficiencies. I cut a few open after an OCI. They looked fine. I use them from 5k to 10k miles.
I believe I read that the reason why GM reduced the OCI (3.6 I think) was because of higher rates if oil consumption. Lower volumes of oil lead to higher oil temps, which lead to higher chain/gear temps which caused chain "stretching" which caused CEL in regards to timing issues. So, typical...
When I bought my R/T in 2012 my dealer gave me lifetime free oil changes. Immediately after I bought the car it had an issue with the left head light. It took those morons 3 visits to figure out that is was the DC-DC converter (12 V to 42V ) that the HID plugged into. So, I decided not to have...