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Thanks for the tips. To be honest, I have no idea. It survived three Buffalo winters without issue, and while it was in a garage at night, MANY (most?) days it spent 10+ hours sitting outside in a parking lot after a 10 minute drive. Long before I knew anything about this issue. Maybe it has sloooowly built up over time. I'm going to check the oil cap tonight. The engine oil you see is no more than 6-8 weeks old, and that oil certainly isn't anywhere near black. If you look at the center of the red box, and look also to the right of the tire in the picture, that is is oil. It seems, to my virtually ignorant eye, to have the normal darkish caramel colour of Mobil 1. Directly below where it has dripped looks black because of light reflection in the photo. There can't be more than 100 miles on the car since it was changed. However, each time it was driven, the engine was plenty warm. Even if the thermo is soft. How would I check that? |
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I'll let you guys know the verdict before I get it repaired. Pleasedon'tbesomethingcatastrophic, pleasedon'tbesomethingcatastrophic... |
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The garage saved you all that time. If you said oil and antifreeze leaked you may have blown the head gasket and most likely another oil gasket. |
Thank you, Rockit. It certainly is frustrating that an item with such a simple fix can do so much damage to your car.
I suppose if you are getting a new car every few years these things aren't likely going to matter, but honestly, after spending nearly 10 years here, I can't fathom not being on a board like this. |
Did you pop the hood and see where the leak is actually originating?
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No, there wasn't enough light.
I'll try tomorrow and bring a flashlight as well as my camera. |
~Some~ pictures
Welp, underside pictures aren't quite in the cards yet, but I got these of the oil cap:
http://i.imgur.com/PLalmefl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/K93HYLKl.jpg and the dipstick: http://i.imgur.com/dqkXKqTl.jpg That is the so-called mayo, I assume. Is that a lot? and a bit inside: http://i.imgur.com/t1G9iD5l.jpg Short of crawling under the car to get pictures (which I couldn't right then) I could not find any evidence of an oil or coolant leak from above. Assuming in the most generic of ways that the valve covers are in the place where valve covers should be, there is no leak there. I ran my hands along the gaskets and found no fresh oil. As mentioned before, the following was done 6-8 weeks ago: Valve cover gasket set Valve cover seal washers Intake manifold cover Intake manifold casket/gasket (sic) Serpentine belts Master cylinder Brake booster Low control arms Are there any of these things that would have involved the CCV, and if so, what/how? Or, if there is a schematic? I didn't figure it out on Realoem. Any thoughts? Thank you again, as always. |
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I've owned many 5's and 7's and was very happy...this was the first and last BMW X5 I would ever buy. They are major JUNK machines and the owners are masochists. If I didn't own 2 I would not know what POS they where :) |
Hard to tell from the latest pictures.
If there is mayo or milkshake in the motor, then this may not be a frozen CCV, but a blow headgasket or some other major engine failure. Usually mayo just builds up on the underside of the oil fill cap and valve cover and can and will get caught and frozen in the CCV and hoses, but rarely mixes in the oil. BTW, what is the oil level as indicated on the dipstick? With a much oil that came out, you should probably not have oil or what ever on the dipstick. Did you check the coolant level as well? |
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