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reddish/brown deposit under oil filler cap
My 3.0i has reddish/brown deposit under oil filler cap. Is that suppose to be normal? my X5 is 9yrs old 52K miles
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Post a photo. Of the deposits, not of you, unless you are an attractive female.
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HAHAHAHA, post of the year. I'm going to have to quote this one.
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good advice X5 Meister!!!
It is if you are running short trips in cold weather. That stuff probably started out whiteish, turned reddish/brown due to rust from the cap. Lots of posts regarding this issue
Last edited by 1stE53; 02-10-2010 at 10:08 PM. |
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Quote:
you mean the varnish from the oil? |
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Here's a picture... of the oil filler cap.
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I bought my 2001 X5 3.0 with 71k miles on it and it had the exact same deposits. I ran a UOA and the report came back very good, so I am not worried about it.
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Same here, my 2003 had 37K when I bought it and this is exactly what my oil cap looked like. I changed the oil myself by lettting drain for an hour, ran a quart of oil through it and then filled it up with fresh BMW oil and a fresh BMW filter. I then cleaned the oil cap and used a rag to clean out what I could from the valve cover.
The above oil change occurred at 38K and I am now at 41,500, I am doing a 750mile round trip to go snowboarding this weekend and I plan to do another change after this to clean it out one more time. After that I plan to change with BMW oil every 5K miles and ignore the BMW oil condition guage.
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2003 X5 3.0i Premium & Sport package Steel Gray Metallic 55K miles and counting |
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Normal ... and not very attractive.
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