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crystalworks

05-31-2019 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Attacking Mid (Post 1163228)

To my chagrin, BMW is succombing to the fuel economy gods and beginning to recommend light viscosity oils. Their new spec is LL-01 FE. I suspect they will soon be recommending this new spec as backward compatible with our old M54's. Sad, as I bet the engineers who actually designed the engines would prefer a higher viscosity, but bureaucrats win in the end.

^ Yep.

I run heavier oil anyway. When I go out of my way to order it I use 5w40 LubriMoly along with some AT205 (valve stem seals) and almost never smoke on extended idle anymore. Has to be like 15 minutes or more of just idle.

Fifty150hs

05-31-2019 12:03 PM

I'll be doing an oil change this weekend. I'm going to try Lubrimolly 10w60 full synth. We'll see what happens. I have 233,000 miles on my M54 and I do changes every 5000 miles, so figure I can't do much harm. We'll see what happens.

crystalworks

05-31-2019 12:08 PM

I just looked at my Amazon history and realized I always call it LubriMoly. It's actually Liqui-Moly. Not sure why or when I started getting the name wrong... lol but I've been doing it consistently for a long time. ;)

Fifty150hs

05-31-2019 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by crystalworks (Post 1163270)

I think it used to be called Lubromolly, but they changed the name. I still occasionally see Lubromolly products on ebay. Must be old stock.

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