I didn't want to bump the prevoius negative rant back to the top.
I am on a drive to regain and retain a positive attitude towards my ailing G5. I took it for another ride this afternoon to see if I could make everything ok. Perhaps it's just me. Perhaps my hearing is super sensitive to that particular frequency.
Nope. It's making a racket.
So I thought I'd have a look at the oil. Nice and clean, it's only done about 800 miles since the last change. But here are some pics of the drain plug magnets and the screen. No big bits of metal this time, but quite a lot of iron filings. After 8,000 miles and many oil changes - it seems a bit excessive to me. It may be just what's left over from those previous graunched up metal lumps which started all this.
Seems to me there's been an awful lot of crap circulating round this engine, and maybe those tiny oil holes in the hydraulic tappets are all bunged up after all......
Anyway, I'd value some opinion on this much metal still coming out.
Thanks again all - this is all a bloody bore I know......