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Metal flakes/glitter found in motor oil.

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As some of you guys might know I did an oil change after only about 10 miles due to my suspicion that the indy mech. had filled my car with 5W-30 instead of 0W-40. After draining my oil, I noticed that there were metal flakes in the drained oil.. they look kinda squareish like glitter... silver in color...

is this ok? My car only has 7200 miles on it!

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As some of you guys might know I did an oil change after only about 10 miles due to my suspicion that the indy mech. had filled my car with 5W-30 instead of 0W-40. After draining my oil, I noticed that there were metal flakes in the drained oil.. they look kinda squareish like glitter... silver in color...

is this ok? My car only has 7200 miles on it!

you might want to save the oil and get an analysis done.

i beleive that someone by the name of turner on rennlist does this.

i would also send/save a sample and send it off to pcna.

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I saved this site off of another discussion regarding places to send an oil sample to for analysis....you might consider contacting them and discussing the feasibility of sending in a sample. Good luck and I hope it turns out ok for you, but the preliminary signs are not encouraging. Chuck.....http://www.dysonanalysis.com/index.html

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