The title compound, [ZrCl(C8H13Si)(3)], is a bent metallocene with two eta(5)-cyclopentadienyl ligands and one eta(1)-cyclopentadienyl ligand, i.e, chloro(3-trimethylsilylcyclopentadienyl-kappa C-1)bis(eta(5)-trimethylsilylcyclopentadienyl)zirconium. The Zr-C bond length to the eta(1)-cyclopentadienyl ligand is 2.396 (5) Angstrom and the Zr-Cl bond length is 2.442 (1) Angstrom.