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Fg Cams - Beware Of Wear


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I recently discovered a rattle in my engine aroud 1500 to 2500 rpm. as it turned out my cams were damaged, and aswell as the damage you can see in the pic they were sliding backwards and forwards, mind you it was only about 1.6mm(from memory) but I noticed the timing chain links looked like they werent straight as they went over cam sprockets,

my car is an 07 bf MKII non turbo , 120,000k , oil changed often always used penrite

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Is there any big chunks missing or just those scored lines ?

It's so hard to see past all that bronze crap!

Doesn't look like you regularly change at all!!

Thanks for that biz

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Regularly to me is 10-15k km's, 7k km's or less is a joke unless you like pouring money down the drain....

But that MY opinion!

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Have you done oil contamination tests at said interval BJC?

Not many show much protection if any left after 15k service interval.

Data is the key here to choosing intervals.....no guess work look for trends in your tests....at $30 a test its great piece of mind one may be doing the right thing.

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Regularly to me is 10-15k km's, 7k km's or less is a joke unless you like pouring money down the drain....

But that MY opinion!

every 5k for me because loves to trash. :D
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We all know nearly every car on the planet will go for at least 10yrs regardless of km's (the 4lt a fcking ridiculous amount of km's). I don't have to be an oil specialist to know what majority of engines can do I know from personal experience and through knowledge. Yes changing the oil when it still looks brand new will be best but a certain amount of wear is expected regardless. Everyone has different priorities, yours may be changing the oil at 5k but I can guarantee you're a cheap cnt in other areas of life as we are all the same and as I said everyone has different "priorities"...

As I did say, that is MY" opinion!

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I think you went a bit potato then bloke I was just asking if you had oil sample tests done before.

I'm not understanding the 5k oil change and then being cheaper in life with other things :/....you mean like toilet paper or brand of butter?

Do you adhere to use by dates or just go by knowledge?

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Regularly to me is 10-15k km's, 7k km's or less is a joke unless you like pouring money down the drain....

But that MY opinion!

10-15k is fine on a standard engine - that will go forever regardless of how often you change it

Turbo engines are performance, they need a bit more TLC and changing engine oil more often than not is def not throwing money down the drain

Oil is bloody cheap compared to how much we waste on fueling the beasts

Just my opinion

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