P80 How overbuilt are the Fuel filters 30671182 on our P80 ! Fuel filter autopsy

[abscate]

Another nasty one....

[Oro]

It’s hard not to eye roll at the ‘plugged fuel filter’ diagnosis. Unlike Uncle Joe’s era, gas stations sell a lot cleaner product than the past, and we rarely see fuel systems getting gunked up.

I completely agree with this; my policy is to change a filter a) when I buy a used car to establish a baseline, b) every 100k after that. Gas quality nowadays is nothing like the past. I cut open a Volvo filter off the used P80 I bought not too long ago. It turns out it had been on about 8 years/50k miles once the date code on it was decoded (date matched t-belt job change so I could guess at miles.

I posted it at BITOG since there are more "filter heads" there, but here's what I found when I cut it open, quite nicely doing it's job.

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threa ... en.338087/

[xanthefin]

Its the same fuel filter than on Ford Escorts (94 year model European).

.. should have i said that?

[matthew1]

Another nasty one....