It's really easy to inspect. Just pull the lower glove box and the filter cover to the right. You can tap out or lightly blow out any loose dust to give you a little more time. Just like filters in your house, the system will run more efficiently if it's not packed up with dust and pollen.
Sounds like it must have been a funny conversation. I can imagine you going "whaaaa? wedge it in? you mean it doesn't just fit???"
Dealer denied warranty on a hydrolocked engine (the guy had it towed from a lake, presumably went into the water). They said he had replaced the air filter with a new O'Reilly's filter right before it was towed (to hide the fact that it ingested water).
RD Version: dumb dumb drive truck into very deep water. Hellcat motor hydrolocked. Dumb dumb take out wet oem engine air filters and replace with filters from o’reilly’s. Then dumb dumb swears up and down truck has never seen water. Dealer finds fresh water in cylinders. Dumb dumb say it mysteriously appeared, mad dealer won’t honor warranty. I’m leaving out a lot of details, but that basically sums it up.
I gave up and inserted the K&N the only way it would fit, which does not seem to fit the way the OEM filter did. The plastic door barely snapped back on. Either K&N was incorrect in their guidance on which way to position the filter, or it is not shaped perfectly to fit the box. Oh well.
You might have received a defective one.
I suspect its just my expectation of what a precise fit means.
I didn’t want to say it, but I was thinking something similarAre we still talking about filters.
