Originally Posted by Sayjac
With the many post use anecdotes of the 820S here, the seam pleat area media spacing topic filter does little to inspire confidence, ie., reason to think results will be different. That said, in my observation MC post use anecdotes 'generally speaking' 820S is an outlier in the line. Whether one chooses to eliminate the whole line from purchase consideration because of topic filter, individual choice I suppose.
Thanks for c&p.
I've previously used an FL400S in my '99 Wrangler with 130k miles. Ran it for a year and posted a thread a few months back of my cut and open...it looked completely fine with no tears and folded over pleating. The consensus from those commenting in the thread seemed to agree that the small, less girthy MC filters don't have tearing issues or folded over pleats.