Dino oil withdrawl

[John B.]

It probably won't make you feel any better but I never look at those service lights & do all my maintenance by mileage/time. The 95 525i Touring we just bought w/136k has had Dino oil changes every 3k since the second owner bought it with 24k. After running a tank of gas mixed with injector cleaner I dumped the Dino/filter & filled with Mobil 1 0w-40 which I won't touch for 5k. I did the same thing with my 535i when I bought it 4.5 years ago. The oil pan gasket weeped when I bought the car & still does so no difference there. The M50 is bone dry so this will be a good test bed to see if the synth oil leak storys are just old wive's tales.

[acidfire52]

I also do not user the service indicator. I also use synthetic, always have.

What I do is set me distance counter on the OBC for 5000 miles and wait for it to count down, then change it.

[dennyg]

Ive heard some opinions that changing the oil has some disadvantages. Ever listen to click and clak? On NPR radio? There idea is that when you drain all the oil and change filter it actualy hurts the engine the first few seconds of start up until all the all circulates and passes through the filter. So changing your oil too often may actually hurt! Maybe that will infulence your compulsion.......or maybe not.......do you check the doors twice after locking car? My obsessive compulsive disorder is to look for more E34s.....I have a need for a 540...anyone with a cure?

[New Owner 95 E34]

Ive heard some opinions that changing the oil has some disadvantages. Ever listen to click and clak? On NPR radio? There idea is that when you drain all the oil and change filter it actualy hurts the engine the first few seconds of start up until all the all circulates and passes through the filter. So changing your oil too often may actually hurt! Maybe that will infulence your compulsion.......or maybe not.......do you check the doors twice after locking car? My obsessive compulsive disorder is to look for more E34s.....I have a need for a 540...anyone with a cure?

Denny- I think we're on parallel trains of thought here! I absolutely LOVE Click and Clack (my wife knows that 0900-1000 on Saturday is MY time), HOWEVER, I think their theory on the momentary lack of oil after a change being harmful is a BIT thin. I used to change the oil on our '95 530 more than was PROBABLY necessary, but I know that the engine felt better with clean oil (especially at 5k+ RPMs in "permanent" sport-mode). My wife actually did the time/mileage math once and "caught" me trying to do an early change- such are the woes of being hitched to a too-smart-for-her-own-good woman, I guess. But now I'm stationed in Korea for a year, so I KNOW that the oil won't get changed until the service light is yellow or even RED. Heck... she'll probably drive the Bimmer until the service light is red, and then garage it and drive the Volvo until ITS service light comes on. Y'all should just be thankful that you are in a position to be able to CARE for your cars, instead of being forced to entrust their care to an un-auto-educated woman! (No offense, Gayle, but you're the exception to the rule.) Oh yeah... and Denny, we both share the "E34 radar" compulsion and a craving for a 540. (It is a 6-speed standard in MY fantasy!) The 530 is just enough to really whet the pallate, isn't it?!

... on the switch to synthetic... the PO of my car had done meticulous 3,000 mile changes with GTX dino oil. I switched to Mobil1 on my first change (after reading all the advice in this forum), and no seepage here either! I'm starting to think that the big hullabaloo about switching between dino/synth is a bunch of urban legend hoo-hah.