Media was intact and in fine order (no wavy or bunched pleats) and that's pretty good for a 7" filter. I spread the media out and it looked very good. Did have little hard sludge chunks about 1-2 mm in size in the depth of the creases, but I've noticed that in my filters before this OCI. So there was nothing here to indicate the filter had been in use double my normal amount. Held the media up to a fluroescent light and could not see light through it. On a 3000 or 4000 mile oci I would ususally see a lot of light areas.