Good info. Thanks

 

Just curious why anyone wouldn't just order the OEM filter?

Rockauto and Amazon both have them available at a very reasonable cost delivered to your door.

 

I looked for a filter with carbon to decrease the exterior odor. Especially smoke from burning leaves and fumes. OEM is just a regular nice pleated filter but no carbon for odor absorbent. Couldn't find a replacement either. So I just put an OEM in.

 

I ordered motorcraft filters from Rockauto.com ,I couldn't find them at any of the local auto part stores. I tend to stick with motorcraft parts on my truck.

 

15 months and 27,xxx miles before I changed mine. Didn't snap a picture of it but it was plenty dirty!

Will change more often now after seeing how dirty the filter was. Just use the OEM filter. It works.

 

yup. OEM filter is reasonably priced and it works. Haven't seen the need to go cheaper or more expensive ....

Same goes for synthetic-blend oil for me

 

My niece just bought a 2007 Ford Edge. She stopped to show me it. I went to the glove box, dropped the door, popped out the cabin air filter. It actually had leaves sticking out of every groove/flap/pleat of the filter...my F150 filter look new compared to hers. I'm guessing it had never been changed..LOL.

 

I bought this one. Installed no problem. Seems just fine.

 

Picked up a new filter and went to change it today. 26k miles and mine still looked brand new. There were a few very small pieces of debris. It was still bright white. Left it in there and buttoned it back up.

I will have to agree that there is a serious design flaw with getting to it. It's not at all hard, but I bet the clips will get brittle and break.

 

33k miles, it was definitely due. No problems getting the trim out. It's slightly inconvenient, but after you've done it once -- it's pretty simple.