Yes, true. Here is a prior filter dissection from this vehicle with less miles and less duration.Well, it was only 5k miles after all. Not exactly stretching the capacity of the filter by any means.
Were you expecting a load a junk in there?
I have probably cleaned up the years of abuse inflicted by the previous owners after my 22k miles using synthetics, HDEO, idle flushes, piston soaks, & multitudes of snake oil additives
WIX 51516, Seven Months, 3321 miles
Plenty of short trips for sure. Run on the mighty Saturn 1.9 DOHC Looks like good solid construction, but it was leaking the whole OCI, apparently at the seam as others have experienced. Date code best as I can determine is 061511D1. As you can see, I punched a hole with a screw right through...
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Under valve cover about 7k miles ago
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