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04-30-2025, 04:13 PM
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#25926 | | I STILL don't get it
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Thoughts on oil changes for my situation?
I only insure and drive my 128i in the summer. The last oil change was in June last year, and I've insured it already this year. Since that last oil change, I've driven it only around 2000km, which is just a mix of city driving and weekend cruises on the sea to sky. No really hard driving like tracks or anything. It seems silly to change the oil after such little use, but it's also been almost a year. Should I just change it once a year simply for age? If I don't spend time on stuff like that I can instead use the time to maybe do my diff oil instead, which I don't know what the current state is.
Maybe I change it to avoid the bong bong bongs.
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04-30-2025, 04:17 PM
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#25927 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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I also do far less kms per year than 5k kms, and I change the oil on my 128i once a year
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04-30-2025, 04:25 PM
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#25928 | | 屎忽鬼
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how do you do an oil change without a dipstick? arent you afraid you'll over or underfill it?
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04-30-2025, 04:28 PM
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With low mileage vehicles that I care about I do it once a year. My Grand Cherokee is probably every other year but that's basically a tractor engine from the 50s.
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04-30-2025, 04:35 PM
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#25930 | | Limited to Fight Club
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Originally Posted by Badhobz how do you do an oil change without a dipstick? arent you afraid you'll over or underfill it? | They... got rid of the dipstick?! 
A 5.0-powered 128i would be fun!
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04-30-2025, 04:45 PM
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#25931 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by Badhobz how do you do an oil change without a dipstick? arent you afraid you'll over or underfill it? | Just pour it all in, it'll get eaten by the engine anyway /s
Joking aside I usually underfill by 0.5 to the spec, and top up as needed once the oil reading process is done.
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04-30-2025, 06:12 PM
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#25932 | | I STILL don't get it
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Dipsticks aren't always the best. The dipstick on my NA was impossible to read anyways. I do the same and fill up using spec. Thanks. Time to make a trip to CT and pick up some LL-01 on sale.
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04-30-2025, 06:18 PM
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#25933 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by Badhobz how do you do an oil change without a dipstick? arent you afraid you'll over or underfill it? | Dipstick? What? I take my baby to the dealer so I can get that free cappuccino and oogle the mainlander sales chicks and imagine them lubing me up like how the techs are lubing up my e82.
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Originally Posted by skyxx Sonick is a genius. I won't go into detail what's so great about his post. But it's damn good! | 2010 Toyota Rav4 Limited V6 - Wifey's Daily Driver
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04-30-2025, 06:34 PM
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#25934 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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^ and finish it off with a nice vac and wash at a dealer. So what if it is $200 ... I got the money. *flex*
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04-30-2025, 06:38 PM
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#25935 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Anyone take advantage of the no PST on PHEV or EV? Today is last day.
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04-30-2025, 06:41 PM
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#25936 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by whitev70r ^ and finish it off with a nice vac and wash at a dealer. So what if it is $200 ... I got the money. *flex* | lil suck and rub I see
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04-30-2025, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by whitev70r ^ and finish it off with a nice vac and wash at a dealer. So what if it is $200 ... I got the money. *flex* | Quote:
Originally Posted by whitev70r Anyone take advantage of the no PST on PHEV or EV? Today is last day. | I guess you don't need to take advantage of it since you got the money. 
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Originally Posted by Badhobz bring your kids, ill beat them 4 free!!! | | |
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04-30-2025, 06:46 PM
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#25938 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by whitev70r ^ and finish it off with a nice vac and wash at a dealer. So what if it is $200 ... I got the money. *flex* | I don't have the money, they don't know I spent 4 figures on the car they're working on and I'm just leeching off of their free cappuccino.
Btw I get that 30% heritage discount because my car is old 
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Originally Posted by skyxx Sonick is a genius. I won't go into detail what's so great about his post. But it's damn good! | 2010 Toyota Rav4 Limited V6 - Wifey's Daily Driver
2009 BMW 128i - Daily Driver
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2003 Mazda Protege5 - Sold
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04-30-2025, 06:49 PM
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#25939 | | RS Veteran
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I'm curious if the heritage discount is for parts and labour? Or is it just labour?
I tried to get the discount at Mini and they laughed me out the door despite being a BMW CCA member in good standing. 
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Originally Posted by Badhobz bring your kids, ill beat them 4 free!!! | | |
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04-30-2025, 06:54 PM
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#25940 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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I change my oil filter once a year, but the actual oil once every 3 years in my summer car.
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04-30-2025, 06:55 PM
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#25941 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by sonick Btw I get that 30% heritage discount because my car is old | Damn. E9X era is now heritage?!?! Jesus Christ is this what getting old feels like
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04-30-2025, 06:57 PM
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#25942 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes I'm curious if the heritage discount is for parts and labour? Or is it just labour?
I tried to get the discount at Mini and they laughed me out the door despite being a BMW CCA member in good standing. | Actually it's 20% off certified parts and labor and 15% off repairs https://www.autowestbmw.com/owners-advantage-program/
It seems like it's dealer specific and not BMW-wide
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Originally Posted by skyxx Sonick is a genius. I won't go into detail what's so great about his post. But it's damn good! | 2010 Toyota Rav4 Limited V6 - Wifey's Daily Driver
2009 BMW 128i - Daily Driver
2007 Toyota Rav4 Sport V6 - Sold
1999 Mazda Miata - Sold
2003 Mazda Protege5 - Sold
1987 BMW 325is - Sold
1990 Mazda Miata - Sold 100% Buy and Sell Feedback | |
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04-30-2025, 06:58 PM
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#25943 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes I guess you don't need to take advantage of it since you got the money. | I honestly toyed around the idea of picking up a ~$12K BMW i3 as a commuter. Blame RabidRat as enabler ...  . But I don't need it cuz I'm whiteA3Etron already.
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04-30-2025, 07:52 PM
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All I can think of when I read i3 is greasy meat juice.
Thank you for recognizing your new identity. Now please go change your username. *Ahem!*
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04-30-2025, 10:21 PM
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#25945 | | I STILL don't get it
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Wow thanks for sharing that Autowest program. Might come in handy later.
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04-30-2025, 10:27 PM
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04-30-2025, 10:28 PM
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#25947 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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free dealership coffee is the best coffee.
i still pull up to toyota, walk in like i belong there, grab a coffee and off i go. 
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05-01-2025, 07:01 AM
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#25948 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by Jason00S2000 They... got rid of the dipstick?!
A 5.0-powered 128i would be fun! | Most cars after like 2010 don't have dipsticks anymore. Part of the plan to make cars harder to work on so people have to pay for maintenance. So many new cars you need a fucking machine to code in a new battery even.
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05-01-2025, 07:08 AM
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#25949 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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The newer GT3’s you’ve gotta remove a cover to even get at the oil cap, that’s rhetorical extent of your access lol
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05-01-2025, 07:11 AM
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#25950 | | 屎忽鬼
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Wait how do you know this Honda ?!? Did you join these Porsche douchebags ?!?!?!? Say it ain’t so !!!
Oh and I just learned they got rid of the dipstick on the hitlerbox 8.5. Glad I got my hitlerbox 8 instead and with a stick ! I better not say anything before it ends up in the shops again.
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