You won't believe what was in my oil filter!!!

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OK, so I purchased my 1985 300TD Turbo Diesel from a dealer who did not know anything about Mercedes in January for $100 (car did not start until I towed it home and replaced glow plugs). He changed the oil for me but because he did not have the filter for the car I was going to replace it at the next oil change. I opened the oil filter once and pulled the old one out just to look at it and it was about 4" tall. Everyone tried to sell me the filter which was at least double the size (in height) and I kept telling them that it would not fit. I finally bought new oil (Delo 400) and went to a MB dealer to see whether they had that "hard to find" 4" oil filter. The guy kept telling me that there is only one size and insisted we took mine out. Upon doing so he used his flashlight to look into my filter housing and guess what.......he pulled another oil filter out. I almost passed out looking at that!!!!! I guess the previous owner could not find the original filter and simply stacked two in there. I did an oil/filer change imediately because I could not even think of driving the car another mile with the two filters in there and the car runs perfect (even my Turbo whistle noise is now gone!!). I guess the moral of this story is: Always look twice in to your oil filter housing...especially if you just bought the car!!!!!!