holy heck, what a bunch of crud from my 1k oil change

[dietcokefiend]

Bite the bullet and went with a VW builders advice with the early oil change on my new 2.0T GTI. Drained out a heck of a lot of machining metal flakes among other things. After seeing that I will be doing another change in 2,000 miles to clean out the remaining stuff, then onto normal intervals. I caught a Gatorade bottles worth of "sample", which will be sent in to Blackstone once my kit arrives.

I really cant see why VW would want that stuff floating around the engine for 5,000 miles+ before a person's first oil change. The only thing I can think of is for those who purchased a service plan, so their maintenance is spread out enough to cut out the first early oil change.:bs:

[hobouncer]

i did mine and i didnt see any metal flakes..

[dietcokefiend]

Did you look at the bottom of your drain pan after you poured the oil into another storage container? This stuff wasnt floating, but just at the bottom of the pan. No big items in the filter or first noticed in my sample container, jsut stuff on the drain pan. Ran a neo-magnet through the stuff, and only probably 10-20% of it was ferrous and stuck to the thing, so the rest was aluminum shavings from other items wearing in.

On VWvortex another member had shown his first oil drain, and had similar results in the drain pan afterwards.

[Hammer07]

Puts hair on her chest, relax Francis, don't be so anal.

[Brent]

Back in air cooled days, VW offered a free oil change at 1,000 miles.

[jayclap]

Back in air cooled days, VW offered a free oil change at 1,000 miles.

nice first post.

[Lima]

Did mine at 6,200kms...

BEFORE and AFTER

[MOPAR man]

I've got a 2.5 Rabbit, 07 5-sp.

I did the first oil change (just under 5,000 miles) this past Friday. The oil had no particles in it.

But I've not really driven it very hard in the first 5,000 miles since it is pretty torquey. I wind my '98 DOHC Neon to 7K RPM and it has over 116,000 miles. It's oil is clean too at each 6,000 mile change.

This begs the question "Why didn't the oil filter "didn't" filter that stuff out?"

That stuff should only come out with "back flushing" the oil filter. A defective filter or filter by-pass valve?

High RPM with a cold engine raises the oil pressure and might be enough to by-pass (too high of a pressure drop across the filter) the filter.

[dietcokefiend]

I've got a 2.5 Rabbit, 07 5-sp.

I did the first oil change (just under 5,000 miles) this past Friday. The oil had no particles in it.

But I've not really driven it very hard in the first 5,000 miles since it is pretty torquey. I wind my '98 DOHC Neon to 7K RPM and it has over 116,000 miles. It's oil is clean too at each 6,000 mile change.

This begs the question "Why didn't the oil filter "didn't" filter that stuff out?"

That stuff should only come out with "back flushing" the oil filter. A defective filter or filter by-pass valve?

High RPM with a cold engine raises the oil pressure and might be enough to by-pass (too high of a pressure drop across the filter) the filter.

Well the items might have had enough weight to them to never leave the oil pan once the oil drained into it from various passages.