Cadillac: excess Transmission wear, metal shavings, cadillac deville

Question
Have a 1999 Cadillac Deville [large transmission] 106,000 miles. Had fuild changed. Techician stated there was "excess" metal around collection magnet. I looked. I saw approximately a total of one tablespoon of metal "shavings" collected on the magnet. No large pieces just the normal "cream potato feel" silver colored slush that was stuck to the magnet.
Fuild was clear and not burned.

Does that amount of metal "shavings" reflect a near term failure? Or perhaps a pending failure?

Tranmission works great.. car runs excellent and has no error messages.
Thanks

Answer
If this is the FIRST time that you have had the pan OFF, This collection of small NON-METALLIC material is usually NORMAL debris and I would NOT be one bit concerned about it. Just clean out the pan and clean off the debris from the magnet and drive the vehicle.

This small debris is NORMAL debris from when they built the transmission and is alaways present in EVERY transmission that I have ever seen when it was the FIRST time that the pan was removed.

I see NO PROBLEMS here.


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