Chuck W.

I am one of those people that believes you cannot change the oil too often. I usually try to change the oil on a new car at 1,000 miles. Then, every 5,000 miles there after. I just completed the first oil change on my son's GS 350 at 2,000 miles. Upon cutting open the oil filter I found some expected metal flakes. The filter did its job.

The second set of photos are of my 2012 BMW 535I at its first oil change at 3,000 miles. Yeah, a tad late but we left on a road trip when it had 700 miles on it. I should have changed it before we left.

It appears from the photos that the BMW had a lot more metal in the filter.

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BMW;

bigblack06

iTrader: (20)

Wow, I see your son is driving it. You are the second person to say that you found metal flakes in your oil, sounds like I need to get my oil checked now as I just hit 2000 miles.

XBimR

This is normal, your engine is breaking in.

onexcite

I got the same thing at the first 500 miles oil change, there are many tiny metal inside the filter housing and the filter. So I do the oil change at 2000 miles, 5K, 10K. Then at every 10K with Mobil 1 and factory filter.

Same thing with my Sienna & G37. The first 500 miles or 1K they have so many tiny metal.

052SI

I think the point is he's trying to make is his BMW had more/larger metal shavings than his son's GS.

jadu

iTrader: (42)

it's all good. i wish i could have changed my previous cars at 1K miles too. In all honesty, i would have done at 500 and 1500. but hey its a new car, and it's easy to forget

xyzstudio

i did the same thing on my previous cars, on my 4gs i tried to ask dealer to do my oil change on 1000 mi my local dealer did not wanna do it 1st after months and few calls finally their agree to chang @ 3500 mi.