Tried a Crystal Water filter...my fridge started making a louder noise when the pump would run. Sure enough I ended up with a leak in a few weeks. The aftermarket filter seemed like it was making the pump work harder. Changed it out to this filter and called the repair man...no leaks...and the sound the pump was making is back to normal. Water is clear...no taste or smell. Will reorder.

Took a lot longer than other filters (and longer than what was said in the manual) to get it to run clear. For a while would consistently run for 5 to 8 seconds clear before producing a milky white colored water for a few seconds then going back. The water does not taste as good as it did before and after i open my kids sippy cups after an overnight, the water smells foul. Will be looking for something different next time (if there is anything - this is just another strike against this Frigidaire refrigerator - meh!).

Inserted the filter into my 6 months old Frigidaire, ran water through for 3 minutes as instructed, and waited for the cloudy, gray water to clear up. Still gray and cloudy. ran it for 3 more minutes...still gray and cloudy. Tasted the water and noticed a slight sour aftertaste. I put my original filter (came with the new Frigidaire 6 months earlier) and the water came out clear and no aftertaste. I don't trust that this supposedly new filter came from Frigidaire or was new! It wasn't sealed and was loose in the flimsy box. It is in the mail back to Amazon. I'm calling Fridgidaire direct.

I opened the package and inspected the item. This item was sold as new, but clearly was tampered with. See the photos. The seam of my old filter has a clean line and the number matches up with the guiding rail. The replacement I just received looks like it was cut and glued back together. I'm going to try: Aqua Drop filters Certified Compatible Cartridge with Frigidaire water filter ULTRAWF

i dont understand. I have been buying these oem filters for years now. I never purchased directly from AMAZON but this time automatically ordered through the dash button the purchase automatically went to AMAZON and not the vendors I use to purchase from. Also weird is that there are no other vendors that sell the OEM when I do a search now on Amazon. You can only find aftermarket ones through other vendors. The water is cloudy and chalky and its definitely not from air bubbles. There is a residue and chalk in the cup and this is after a few days and even putting it through a britta filter still cloudy. The water is CRYSTAL CLEAR when we put a bypass filter. Did they change manufacturers? Are these fake? I have NEVER had any issues in the past until now. I returned the first one and received the second one two days later and same results CLOUDY water. If my memory serves me right the old packaging was purple so these may be new manufacturers or new manufacturing and water that comes out does not taste good nor does it look safe to drink.