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Originally Posted by JCL
If you start with the assumption that limited short trips are normal, and that no additional maintenance should be required because of this use pattern, fine. Forget the freezing for a moment. Pretend it is always summer. What you are saying is that driving around with all that moisture in your engine and oil is fine and not detrimental. Many would disagree with that position.
I think it is probably best that you sell it. I think we discussed that in this thread some time back, IIRC
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Surely thats what oil changes get rid of?
The last vehicle I had was well known to have condensation issues - many owners described having a milky oil/water mix present on the oil filler cap but despite doing LOTS of short trips (sub 5 miles - owing to the type of work I was doing at the time there was no way to avoid this) and the vehicle being too thermal efficient (another well known characteristic of the model which drove me mad - it took FOREVER to heat up and I even saw it drop in temperature on occasion as I drove along - thermostat was changed BTW) I had zero issues in 140,000 miles of driving
Not once had I a frozen anything to deal with and not once did I have to service anything to ensure that was the case
This takes me back to my point that what I have experienced is a design flaw and that the average owner (ie someone who simply wants a vehicle to get from A - B and has neither the time nor inclination to pull their engine in pieces periodically) should not have to contend with
So I agree - this vehicle is not best suited to my needs and on this occasion BMW was not "The ultimate driving machine" in my opinion