Furry oil pan magnets, excessive?

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I had planned to take my car up to Mackie's for a gearbox service including lower front valve body replace. I am self employed and my work is pretty quite this next week so I decided to do the work myself.

I have done gearbox services on this type of gearbox, 5hp19 and 5hp24 three times in the past without any issues but I have never seen magnets with this much debris on them before.

I changed the oil and filter in this gearbox only 2 years ago and have only covered 2000 mls in that time. The magnets were obviously cleaned when I did this work.

The gearbox has no issues and no codes. The work I am doing is purely as preventative maintenance. Well, that was until I saw the magnets.

This debris has built up over only 2 years and 2000 mls. I was also surprised at how dark the oil looks.

Car has only done 88000mls. Is she getting ready to test my commitment with a gearbox refurb on the horizon?

Any opinions much appreciated.