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They distort.

Posted by ghost of olddude55 on May 13, 2022 at 12:38:16:
Whenever I changed the oil and replaced the filter, the old Mobil One filter looked like the Hulk got a grip on the top and bottom of the filer and gave it a twist.
The Cobalt uses a cartridge filer, not a spin on. Looks like this:

The paper element looked like it had been twisted when I removed the old filter.
Either the car's oil pressure was distorting the filter, or (what's more likely) the filter was too long and the paper element was distorted when I torqued down the cap on the filter housing.
I've been using Wix for the last couple of years since O'Reilly's opened here and they come out looking like the did going in, except oil soaked.