Metal on Magnetic drain plug?

[Shawnery]

I'm aware that a certain amount of very small peices of metal are to be expected during break-in but in general at what point should we see a drop in sludge and at what size should we start to worry. I just did my 3rd oil change and I would be willing to say that this is the most I've seen since I started the process. There's a few peices about the size of click-click pencil lead but thin and about 1/4 of an inch long.

Concerning yet or just part of the process?

[1000RR]

How many miles when you did your 3rd change?

[Shawnery]

1500 miles

[Wolielmo]

Take a look at your gear box

[Thors Hammer]

Originally Posted by Wolielmo

Take a look at your gear box

What he said;.....

BSB Forum • View topic - BMW S1000RR Gearbox Problems...

[Vidaeis]

Originally Posted by Thors Hammer

What he said;.....

BSB Forum • View topic - BMW S1000RR Gearbox Problems...

I just read the gearbox problem link, and BMW's response is infuriating. The idea that something with built-in lap timer software has it's warranty voided by track use is absurd! Why else would you build a bike that carries first gear into the 90s!

[tcchin]

Originally Posted by Shawnery

I'm aware that a certain amount of very small peices of metal are to be expected during break-in but in general at what point should we see a drop in sludge and at what size should we start to worry. I just did my 3rd oil change and I would be willing to say that this is the most I've seen since I started the process. There's a few peices about the size of click-click pencil lead but thin and about 1/4 of an inch long.

Concerning yet or just part of the process?

Did it look like this? (Sixth oil change, and worst yet.)

[1000RR]

Originally Posted by tcchin

Did it look like this? (Sixth oil change, and worst yet.)

.

[Shawnery]

Mine was no where near that bad, my oil had a much newer look to it and not goopy as yours appears, it had maybe four single shreads with no underlying much.

[Rainman]

I changed my own oil at 4.5K miles. The first being at the dealer's 600 mile service.

Here is my plug at the 4.5K mark. A few slivers but not so bad. Hey,... its a real closeup.



And as for the oil itself. This gives you an idea of the consistancy and color. Yes, I took the left lower fairing off, and tried the tin-foil method. Not adrop of oil on the headers at all.



Now compare this.

I just changed the oil for the third time total and second time myself. This was done tonight (10/13/10) at 7.3K miles. So this is another 3 months and 2.8K miles on this Mobil 1 oil. The pictures are entirely different. No big shards or slivers, just some teeny, tiny pieces as I would expect. I've learned to manually shift smoother and don't use the quickshifter much at all any more. I do downshift a lot and do a pretty darn good job of matching and meshing the engine/gear speeds without need for hard or sloppy "blips". Think that's a difference? Anyhow, I'm much happier and the break-in seems to have settled down.