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Tiny piece of oil bottle seal fell into oil filler.

So I was doing my oil change using Nissan Ester oil, and a tiny flake of the aluminum oil bottle seal (about the diameter of a pinhead)fell into the the

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Old 05-24-2011, 08:51 AM   #1 (permalink)
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So I was doing my oil change using Nissan Ester oil, and a tiny flake of the aluminum oil bottle seal (about the diameter of a pinhead)fell into the the oil filler tube as I was filling up. Should I be worried?
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No, not a big enough piece to worry about. It will eventually get trapped in the oil filter without damaging your engine.
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