I'll say the element looks fine at 6k miles and clearly the cage and, media area, pleat spacing and uniformity have been improved over older ecores. That said, this one uses a nitrile combo valve which even GM now won't use on their for GM ACDelco ecore applications. Likely ok here, but 'for me' I'd choose a filter with a separate metal bypass first for reliability reasons. My .02
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