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Tim has the link right above my last response in this thread.

Wow, what happened to your engine. Is it a known issue

Thank you very much Tim. That is the oil I used. This is the most expensive car, and first BMW engine I’ve owned. I’ve heard horror stories about maintenance and warranty claims so I want to make sure I stick to the prescribes oils. I only put about 5000 miles a year, and in that year I’ll...

So am I to understand I may be doing damage with only a C5 rating?

I e been reading an it appears that the car needs an oil with German specs, some type of LL this or that, I also saw it could use a C5 oil. i can’t seem to get s straight answer on if what Im using is ok. im using Castrol Edge synthetic 0-20. I don’t see it mentioned much at all here but it...

Max, I get it, my question may be a bit off the wall like I don’t know what I’m talking about or even should messing around with cars at all, but it was more out of curiosity. I’ve worked on many many of my cars over the last 25 years, and have a rather good understanding on how to work on them...

Ah, thanks. I loved my BRZ, man that thing was fun to drive, but I wanted more power And refinement, traded that in for a Kia Stinger GT, all the power but a tank - though it handled quite well for its size. Traded that and I got this - best of all worlds so far. Best car I’ve ever owned. I’ve...

Well if you thought I was an idiot before, your gonna love this, what’s BC stand for. I have a feeling it’s supposed to be super obvious. btw I see you had/have an 86, I had the BRZ.

So I see in YouTube vids some Owners have under their tach and to the right a fuel tank symbol with a segmented red bar under it. I have how many miles on my trip and such. How do I get the bar and fuel symbol to show up? I’ve tried the manual and tried watching some youtube, and of corse I...

Well since I got the car used with 3900 miles on it yesterday and no record of a previous oil change I didn’t want to wait till mid week to get the oil changed. So I bought some oil and the only filter I could find, which happens to be a Wix filter. I could find no info of MKV’s Using Wix...

Follow up question. Can the oil filter be changed without draining the oil? so if I pull out the filter will tons of oil come out unless I drain the oil first.

No not about being low. I checked the oil level it was at max.

Hello, impulse bought this beautiful MKV car today because of the good deal I got on it. Not terribly informed on the platform other than the few vids I’ve seen on youtube, but I will rectify that soon enough. The car has 3900 miles on it and a warning comes up about changing the oil, but there...