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Apologies-Looking for Oil Thread for M54
Thanks!
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I buy Castrol Edge 5W30 at Costco. Full synthetic. And I don't care what anybody says about it.
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I use Liquimolly, full synthetic 5w40 per my indy's recommendation. It lowered my oil usage. I have 217,000+ miles on my M54. Change my oil every 5000 miles. Use the Liquimolly engine flush at every change as well. Oil usage has gradually gone down since I stared using the engine flush as well. I think it is slowly degunking the oil rings so the oil can flow back down like it's supposed to.
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I use Mobil 1 high mileage 10w30. I change when the count down timer trips based on liters of gas consumed. That makes a lot more sense than miles driven.
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2011 E70 • N55 (me) 2012 E70 • N63 (wife) |
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Thanks guys. So what I'm hearing is any of these viscosities are fine with the Vanos. My oil consumption dropped radically when I had the new CCV system installed. Just want to keep her running as long as I can. She looks and runs great. Thanks for the help!
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My Indy too made the switch from Castrol to Liqumoly 5W 40 for both my 99 E39 (120k) and 02 E53 (130k) a couple of years ago. It did lower the oil usage in the E53 - the E39 has never used any. |
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I'm going to look into that
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2011 E70 • N55 (me) 2012 E70 • N63 (wife) |
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From what I've read, higher mileage, higher viscosities are better. My Indy said I could even run 10w60 racing oil!
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My wife's M54 goes through oil about the same mix as a2-cycle engine when cold and short drives.
Weather warms up and problem goes away so CCV is planned for next fall. I'm thinking of adding a heater (using a motorcycle handlebar heat wrap)
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So Ravenol offers a high mileage group 4 synthetic in the states now because I hounded them to get it imported since last year. Not sure if you're looking for something like that or not.
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