Product review (5 stars): Fantastic - fits perfectly, no taste, and you can buy 3 for the price of brand name.
I can't believe I have such ridiculously high water pressure. Went from filling up a gallon bottle in about 5 minutes to less than 1. I forgot it could do that!

Well, the water tastes exactly the same as it did with the replacement, and of course it's a torrent now instead of a trickle. No leaks or other problems (other than I can't go blow-dry my hair waiting for a pitcher to fill). I finally got around to replacing my fridge's filter after.. maybe like 7 years? I was more comfortable drinking tap water (never got to that point - would have loved to just remove the filter but of course without it there's no sealed water line to the dispenser - so we just kept it in until it was almost completely clogged) than spending $30-40 on a new filter. Good news was, regardless of how clogged it got, the water still didn't taste like tap water. Good job LG.

I cut open the old filter because, I mean, come on. There's a thick hollow cylinder of carbon filter inside, and  at the end of the cylinder is a catch for large debri (the cause of the clog!). If anyone's curious, mine (I live in Los Angeles County, water comes from the Rancho Dominguez district's water distribution center) was filled with extremely clean-looking tiny woodchip things. No smell whatsoever. We have really hard water, but man at least it's not full of gross stuff. I intend to cut this one open as well, and at this price I don't think it'll take another 8 years for that to happen.