Fram XG10955

[newtoncd8]

Fram XG10955 on 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee V6 Limited
-Jeep has 150,250 miles
-Filter had 9850 miles
-OEM MO-744 went back on

Not sure what was going on, but tried to zoom in for the last picture.

 

[fantastic]

Normal twisted on that engine. Thanks for posting.

 

[Fair enough]

Isn’t one cap twisting on the other due to installation? Where it says Korea the caps have moved on each other about two letters from a straight line. Cartridge may be slightly too long.

 

[newtoncd8]

Over 150,000 miles on my Jeep and have never had an issue with twisting. Here is the MOPAR filter from a previous oil change and what I have routinely seen since I purchased the vehicle in 2012.

 

[blufeb95]

Over 150,000 miles on my Jeep and have never had an issue with twisting. Here is the MOPAR filter from a previous oil change and what I have routinely seen since I purchased the vehicle in 2012.

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It seems to me that more and more that for cartridge filters it's best to stick with OEM unless you have a tried and true aftermarket filter, on the one car I change that uses a cartridge filter, I use XG9018 because they work well and next time I'm going to try one of those wire backed ST9018s with the woven cellulose(cotton) or some type of woven plastic fiber whatever type of media it is , but for so many other applications I've seen people having major problems with the filter apparently being dimensioned outside of constraint and the filter getting compressed during installation and in those I'd just get the OEM, if I hadn't had luck with the FRAMs in this application I'd be using the OEM Hengst filter, which GM makes a pain to buy you can only get one if you buy a whole cap assembly, otherwise the Delco filter was made by Champion labs which in the past when they were paper they would come out all twisted up which I didn't like, although judging by the ST9018 it does appear the new Champ labs Delco might be whatever that wirebacked media is that is too soft feeling to be microglass.