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Off the subject.
But I have heard alot of aftermarket "performance" air filters with oils or chems in em can fugg up MAF sensors.
Specially the washable ones with oil/ special chem additives your supposed to apply into them.
Dont know how many used vehicles I have popped the hood on and find some K&N , spectre or some such air filter installed out their in the open sitting in the bottom of an air box.
Top cover of the air box gone or modified and defeating the purpose of the cold air intake design from the tube intake going to the front grill.
Basically sucking in hot engine air.
That probably does great things eventually to all the sensors in modern engines.

Suppose the Vin diesel fast and furious air filter factor overcomes all that.

Sometimes just returning a used vehicle back to OEM spec schitt and tossing the Vin diesel pipe dream schitt away a previous owner put in it is the best course of action to take to restore performance.
Junkyard OEM schitt has worked for me many times to unfugg schit a previous owner has done with their vision of super vehicle.

LOL!!!

I understand what is shown in the video, but I got my first truck 30 years ago. Ran fram filters and Castrol Gtx since that time in all my trucks. My first truck I sold with 160,000 miles , the next one 220,000 miles, another right at 200,000 miles, I have one now with 305,000 miles. These are not all highway miles. I’ve had a couple other trucks I sold with less miles. Never been into the motor of any of them, not none. These were Ford, Chevys, and GMC’s. I’m not defending fram or Castrol but what more could I have asked for?

The oil used to treat K and N style filters can foul MAF sensors. In addition gauze style filters are absolutely terrible for your engine..

"But I have heard alot of aftermarket "performance" air filters with oils or chems in em can fugg up MAF sensors."

That's an old wives tale. I've had a couple of K&N air filters and never had a problem. You just have to follow the instructions for cleaning and oiling them.

Just you wait - it's only a matter of time.

Yep.

It might amaze people that certain OEM filters would be judged as "junk" compared to the more expensive aftermarket alternatives, but they are actually essential to the design of the air, oil, cooling or whatever system on the vehicle, especially on newer vehicles.

More expensive isn't always better and sometimes ruins perfectly good [bleep]. Believe me, the manufacturers know their good stuff and their junk. Hell, just wiper blades can throw a big spender/premium aftermarket user into a tizzy.

I can’t imagine you’ll ever see the difference on a reasonably maintained vehicle.

Light the torches! Grab the pitchforks! Ready the stocks (if not the stake)!

I just bought an oil filter socket for a Mopar high pressure filter (76 x14). I was surprised at how many choices there are. I found that one filter had several drive configurations based on the manufacture. I had to take the tool out to my vehicle and fit it on the OEM filter.