Blackstone Oil Analysis - thoughts?

[Russianblue]

This is VERY interesting and I am wondering if we are seeing a record of something here that has happened to many of us over the years.

I got this car in Sep 2018 with 70k miles on it. It was dealer serviced and came with a Genuine BMW air filter, 5w30 Genuine BMW oil bc the sticker was still on the window.

I rode out the existing oil for 4000 miles and then changed over to Motul 8100 x-cess 5w40 bc that's what was in my other Xer and I didn't want 53 different jugs/grades in the garage.

Admittedly I have gotten a tad lazy, running out my last oil change to 8100 miles, but that's not exactly straight up engine abuse.

But as you can see, there is something I am not doing right. You can read the guy's comments. He's downright concerned.

And over this 30k mile period, I have seen consumption go up massively, from about 1 qt every 3000 miles to about 1 qt every 1200 miles (the 'generally accepted' M54 usage level). More specifically, this seems to have happened all of a sudden...during this last oil change period. Did the tension rings finally freeze up solid?

The trend here is a little disturbing. What's the best way to approach this? Think i should do what he says and try a 4k interval? That sounds kinda ridiculous no? Definitely has me thinking about trying another type of oil though. Maybe this younger engine wanted 5w30? It's running great, I'd just prefer not to have to put in so damn much oil like on my other Xer.