oil change

adis · 06-19-2015, 03:55 PM

hi,

i have changed to motul 300v power 5w-40 and i am wondering when to change it, on wich interval.

i did almost 4000 miles thats about 6300km.

i am thinking about to change it on about 7000miles or 11.000 km.

what do you think?

Efthreeoh · 06-20-2015, 04:34 AM

7,000 miles is way too long. Change it every 2,200 miles. And change the filter every 1,250 miles. Just to be safe.

BMW_drei · 06-20-2015, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

7,000 miles is way too long. Change it every 2,200 miles. And change the filter every 1,250 miles. Just to be safe.

/Sarc?

floydarogers · 06-20-2015, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by adis

...i have changed to motul 300v power 5w-40 and i am wondering when to change it, on wich interval.

i did almost 4000 miles thats about 6300km.

i am thinking about to change it on about 7000miles or 11.000 km.

what do you think?

The brand of oil doesn't change what interval you should use (as long as everything is LL-01 or LL-04). I would - and do - use something close to BMW's recommendations (10K miles to 15K miles).

TheGlobetrotter · 06-20-2015, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

7,000 miles is way too long. Change it every 2,200 miles. And change the filter every 1,250 miles. Just to be safe.

Haha

On a more serious note, you'll find plenty of oil interval debates if you search for it. I for one get a fresh batch every 10,000 km.

Efthreeoh · 06-20-2015, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by BMW_drei

/Sarc?

Maybe...

ajaye · 06-21-2015, 09:39 PM

The only thing anyone can tell you with a degree of certainty is that the BMW 15,000 interval for free changes is entirely too long.

If you are really concerned about it, change it at 5,000 miles, send a sample to Blackstone and let the results of the analysis guide you from there.

Efthreeoh · 06-22-2015, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ajaye

The only thing anyone can tell you with a degree of certainty is that the BMW 15,000 interval for free changes is entirely too long.

If you are really concerned about it, change it at 5,000 miles, send a sample to Blackstone and let the results of the analysis guide you from there.

100% disagree. My car has 285,000 miles and 13 oil changes that averaged 17,000 miles OCI. The rest (14 - 20) have been at 10,000 miles each. And I'd go on to speculate that the majority of BMW E90 owners follow the BMW CBS for oil change intervals of +10,000 mile OCIs

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Efthreeoh General 17371 Rep 18,769 Posts Drives: The E90 + Z4 Coupe & Z3 R'ster Join Date: May 2012 Location: Virginia iTrader: (0)	7,000 miles is way too long. Change it every 2,200 miles. And change the filter every 1,250 miles. Just to be safe. __________________ A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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