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Originally Posted by Penguin
Why BMW shouldn't have removed the dipstick from engines........ I also wonder if that nice oil level bar is really a "bar," which shows oil level, or just a graphic and the actual oil level readings are either "MAX" or "MIN."
Anyone ever seen an electronic oil level reading in the display between MIN and MAX?
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Our 35d was 1/2 quart low when i changed the oil. In fact, it had been about that low for a couple of weeks while I found the time and got the supplies together. The electronic oil level "meter' showed it FULL the whole time. IMO the oil level' bar graphic' is the fancy equivalent of what we used to call an "IDIOT light"* IOW it is either on or off (AKA Max or Min)
FWIW I'm guessing the oil level sensor is that plastic black box on the outside of the oil pan near the drain plug. If so, is that thing sensing the oil level remotely THROUGH the oil pan? Or is there another hole in that oil pan plugged with a plastic coated probe
Funf Dreisig
* BTW I still do.