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Oiled filters tend to gum up the throttle body over time as well. I cleaned my AFE dry filter after about 13k and it was surprisingly clean. Looked like new.
Yeah same here man, I cleaned mine after about 10k miles and it wasn't bad just very dusty(living in the desert of Vegas dust is a huge culprit here)