Hello everyone. I am new to these forums. I have browsed he website a lot but never had a reason to post. That is until recently. Back in October of 2010 I purchased a 2006 Ford Freestyle AWD with the trusty 3.0L Duratech and the CVT transmission. She had 65,000 miles at the time of purchase. This car has been a champ. The car has seen nothing but Mobil 1 and recently have been switching to AFE 0w-20 in the winter and EP 5w-20 in the summer. The oil filter has always been the same. The Motorcraft FL-820S. I recently have been so pleased with the condition of the oil at my 5,000 miles intervals that I have contemplated upping the interval to 7,500. I knew that in order to do so I would need to upgrade the filter. After a lot of research and seeing the guts of almost every filter. I decide on the new Fram Ultra. Due to it's low price of $9 and the fact that my local Walmart has them and my Mobil 1 oil($27 for 5qt jug). So with the first change to the new filter I couldn't bring myself to go up to 7,500 with out seeing how the filter handled 5,000 first. All was good. I cut her open and the pleets were all in tack and the filter was solid. So I stuck with the Fram ultra for my winter change. 6qts Mobile 1 Advanced Fuel Economy 0w-20 and the Fram Ultra XG2 filter. All went well until 4,900 miles into the oil. The car sat for 2 days in my garage and I attempted to start her. She cranked slow at first then came back to life but died after a few seconds of rough idle.I had to get her started and keep my foot to the floor up to 3,000 Rpms before she was firing right. I put her on the jack and took a look. I couldnt find anything wrong and noticed she was at 4,900 miles on the oil and she had burned through about a qt maybe more ( this car at 5,000 will drain 5 of the 6 original quarts with most of the qt in the filter). Time to change the oil and see whats going on. Upon taking the filter off I heard a grinding sound I had never heard before. So I set it aside and let it drain. When I picked it up after it was drained I spun it in my hand and could hear the filter spinning inside the housing. It is even able to move about 1-2mm up and down. I have never heard of this happening. So I went to youtube and looked at the guts again and still have no idea what could have happened. I have to wait out the weekend to call Fram to see what they are willing to do before I cut the filter open. I could find no info of anybody ever warrantying a Fram filter. So I figured I will document the process in this thread. I will post pics when I get the go ahead to open the filter as well as when I hear any information from Fram. I will get a video posted to youtube of the sound and link it here within a few days. Has anyone ever heard of this? I have heard of the orange Fram crushing from oil pressure but this has a metal screen in between the filter media and metal end caps! Sorry for the long read but I could find no information on this happening and figured I needed to document my experience so others can benefit. I will be back to update often!