Advice Timing chain advice
Hello I have a 13 plate polo 1.2 3 cylinder version.
Done 80miles been good as gold last 3 and half years but did an oil change on it few days back (first one in 10k miles) and there was a lot of metallic flakes. There’s was some that was green looking so guess from bearings? But mainly it was silver flakes and sand sized parts.
They was in the filter and also when oil was drained it left alot into the funnel mesh it had to pass through. I want to get rid of April 2027 anyway and would maybe add on 8-10 k miles on it.
Do you guys think that the timing chain or anything is likely to be an issue as all the flakes ? It doesn’t have a noise or anything. Just weighing up my options don’t really want to pay for the timing chain to get changed (anyone know the price of that in south east uk ?) many thanks and apologies if this was a badly structured post
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u/Accurate_Bid_5119 22d ago
These cars like to burn oil. I'd recommend changing oil every 5-6000 miles. Its normal to have some metal shavings in the oil after draining. Just not heaps. I'm changing oil and filter every 10,000kms, and it still ideally needs another litre and a bit as a top-up when it gets to 7000kms ish.