Product review (5 stars): Money saver
I read all the reviews about how this product makes your water leak and how it pressurizes, bad taste etc. so when I bought this filter I was leery. I will admit I did have all the problems, however in about 10 minutes I had it working great. When I first put the filter in I noticed a hissing sound like the filter was pressurizing. I ran a couple gallons of water through it then removed the filter. I rapped a towel around it so that if it sprayed water I would catch it, and it did pop and I caught the water in the towel. I then put the filter back in and this time there was no hissing. I ran about five gallons of water through it and then tasted the water. It had what I would call a plastic taste. So I removed the filter again. This time there was no pop and no water splash. I drained the water out of the filter and noticed some loose carbon coming out. After a few shakes all the water was drained. I put the filter back in the fridge and ran a little water. Took the filter back off to drain it and this time no loose carbon. I put the filter back in, ran three gallons of water through it, tasted it and presto, it tasted great. I did notice some leaking from the water spout on the fridge. Not a bad drip, in fact when I took the catch cover off, the water did not even cover the bottom of the pan. That was after a day. After a few days I noticed that the ice maker was not making ice. I reset the ice maker and it started running again. Once the ice maker started the drip totally went away.
So the moral of the story is- if you want to save yourself some money and don't mind spending a few minutes tweaking the filter, this is the perfect product. If you want a plug and play filter - please spend the 50 bucks on the OEM.
Also buy one at a time. for some reason the pricing on Amazon is weird. If you buy one it is like $17 something. If you buy two it is $19 and the three pack is like $18.50. These are free shipping with Prime so getting one at a time doesn't cost me anything.