FR10KER

Guys,
I have done a full oil change and filter swap, pretty easy to be honest, I have a couple of questions?

1. What's the best start up procedure post oil + filter change?
2. I examined my filer (tore out the outer paper) examined it.

What would normal particulates in the filter look like?

I found some 3 or 4 but they were vsmall less than 1mm - what's normal.

Sorry I am a new to Porsches having only just bought my '99 C4...

Joe Ricard

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FR10KER

He he - Never mind, I didn't really expect a sensible answer!

DTMiller

Post a picture of the particles. Could be nothing could be .... not nothing.

FR10KER

My plan is to pull the filter after i have done 100miles and see what I have. The motor was rebuilt in 2012 and I think this is the first filter change as it's only covered 4k miles...

fpb111

Couple small particles are nothing to worry about.

This is something to worry about:

FR10KER

Well my filter was much cleaner than that, I had to pick through each fold to find anything!

Why I asked is that I have never had a car with a paper filter that's easy to examine, so I really have no idea what I would find in the filter, normal spin off type filters are hard to check so you never really know what's being deposited in them.

Normally I would expect zero deposits or very fine deposits similar to a silver "copper grease" on the magnetic sump plug; I fitted a magnetic plug too as part of the oil change.

I will wait and see...

Joe Ricard

You will be fine. seems if you found little particles then your filter is doing it's job. after-all that's what it is for.

crashclint

I was disturbed to find this in my oil change, that explains what happened to my IMS.

alpine003

Damn, did an illegal do your last oil change?

5CHN3LL

You need to build a wall around that car. At your own expense.

alpine003

Maybe **** on it if it's just lying there and won't start?

Barn996

If you found The Donald you'll most likely find lots of hair as well!