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Originally Posted by Steve C  I climbed under my car the first week and saw the strange filter housing so i inquired about filter and it is a housing that contains a cartridge. If there is a filter I could replace the existing on on my Escape I would buy it in a heartbeat! |
wow that is odd, well they must have done a change in production along the line somewhere because mine definitely uses a spin on Ford filter. I purchased my 09 Escape xlt 2.5 litre 6 speed auto in February 09. I've done two oil changes thus far. At first I thought it was a good idea to have the cartridge filter as I thought it would be cheaper to replace than the spin on filter, but it doesn't turn out to be any cheaper, plus it seems that it would be a dirtier oil change to mess around with the cartridge and stuff. That is very odd that they would use two different oil filter types on the same setup. I don't know if you can remove the cartidge housing and switch to a spin on filter, you would think that the attachment base would be similar on the block to reduce production costs and the only difference is the housing.
