Originally Posted by BlueOvalFitter
Originally Posted by A_User55555
Cool. Just used the same filter on a relatives Mercury Grand Marquis. Hopefully it won't tear also.
Will you, or someone you trust, be cutting the filter open when you do the next OCI?
Probably not. It took months of pushing my relative to change his oil. He was supposed to change it in November, but kept postponing it. Then Covid happened. He's high-risk, so I didn't want to take him to a crowded shop. We both live in apartments so I can't change the oil myself.
He usually changes it at Jiffy Lube (bad I know), so I went with him to a less crowded Jiffy Lube in the area. It's not worth the hassle to ask for the filter back.
Also, I can't justify paying $60 for an oil filter cutter. I can buy ~6 oil filters with that money.
If it was my car, I'd keep the filter and cut it at some point. And I would be using a different filter.