<x-flowed>Russ Wolfe wrote:
You can pull the pan off a newish automatic, and you will find those metal bits. It's from break-in of the thrust washers, and such. That is why the screen is there, to filter them out, and they fall back into the pan.
Yep. Check this out: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1064342"Normal" wear, at least according to modern VW specs. How else would they explain the existence of "lifetime" fluids otherwise?
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