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Do oil filter manufacturers ever change the filter to make it longer?

Aug 07, 2010 by eyerotten | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

I am going to go change my friend's oil tomorrow at their house. I have only changed their oil once before (about 4 months ago) but the filter I got seems to be longer than the one I remember buying before (I will check them when I actually get to their

It is rare, but it can happen. Maybe the filter manufacturer found that the shorter filter wasn't doing as good a job as they would have liked. Or maybe they had been making 2 lengths, and found that the longer size fit fine on both. They're not gonna

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