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Comment by rootusrootus

At the risk (ha!) of a bad car analogy, I've experienced a similar feeling when I was regularly doing used oil analysis on my car. One day the analysis came back and told me I was getting elevated levels of metals that indicated abnormally high bearing wear. From that point forward I worried needlessly about when the motor was going to croak, and I realized that I was not willing to preemptively rebuild it just because an oil analysis showed a higher risk. So it was good for nothing except higher anxiety.

Moral of that story -- I sold the car about 100K miles later and it was still just fine. I've never bothered with the oil analysis since.

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