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who says you cant change every 40,000 miles


I saw this on Jalopnik the other day. It's so sad to see a BMW engine (or ANY engine for that matter) treated like that. I don't think Castrol GTX could have a prayer on that kind of sluge.
 
missing a $100 oil change every 3000 miles.....thats a $1300 savings.. well worth it!!! LOL.
 
wait its not supposed to look like that?
 
any one ever heard of that Auto Rx they are talking about?
 
missing a $100 oil change every 3000 miles.....thats a $1300 savings.. well worth it!!! LOL.

But the bad part is that if you read down a bit it was actually 60K on the oil change not forty so thats 2000. People that treat cars like this should have there lic revoked and thrown in jail for assualt and battery on a car
 
But the bad part is that if you read down a bit it was actually 60K on the oil change not forty so thats 2000. People that treat cars like this should have there lic revoked and thrown in jail for assualt and battery on a car

+1 Amen brother
 
Back about 1989 I bought a car that was presented to another mechanic
(not a competetor, someone who I traded jobs with if the job was more
in line with something the other of us wanted to do) that came in with 80-some thousand miles on the ODO and still had the flat grey Mopar break-in oil
filter on the engine.

The car was a 1969 Plymouth Valiant and the engine was a 225 ""Slant6"

The oil wasn't liquid any more.

TWENTY YEARS on the factory fill and it only quit at 80k.

I put a rebuilt engine in the car and gave it to my dad.

060 over, forged pistons and an Isky MArine camshaft...
He loved that car... it was hell prying it loose from him when it
became impossible to service the four piston disc brakes I robbed
off my formula S Baracuda.

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how? how does that happen? back when i was 8 years old driving my grandpa's riding lawnmower i knew the oil had to be changed. if you put 15k on your car every year, then thats 4 years that he didnt get an oil change. i'm thinkin at some point, car care is gonna pop in your head.

however, i still dont know whether to be dumbfounded by stupidity or amazed that engine made it that long without blowing up.
 
I agree with the deisel duch. It works great, and cleans it up nice. I did this with my 54 ford 272 after it sat for ten years. Couldn't scrap the oil off with a scraper but the deisel cleaned it up really good after about four duches. Just like Original_Ranger said.
 
missing a $100 oil change every 3000 miles.....thats a $1300 savings.. well worth it!!! LOL.
My dad used to have a BMW. For one thing, they have an oil change light which the owner here had to deliberately ignore. The light can ONLY be reset by the dealer. Secondly, on my dad's Beemer the light would go off about every 15,000 miles which the dealer swore was fine. He had the car for 3 years and 100,000 miles and it never burned a drop of oil the whole time, although it was a POS in other respects which is why he got rid of it.

daniel3507 said:
any one ever heard of that Auto Rx they are talking about?
I've used it a couple of times on a couple of vehicles and I think it's good shit. :icon_thumby: I don't know that it would fix the Beemer here though. Got two bottles on order right now for my daughter's Jeep. It has over 100k so they recommend that you use it twice.
Basically you change your oil and filter, use regular oil, add a bottle of Auto-RX and drive it 2500 miles. Change the oil and filter again, use regular oil, and drive 3000 miles. This is the "rinse cycle" when the crud really comes out. Change oil and filter again with whatever oil you want and you're done.
There are more detailed instructions on their site for different situations.

www.auto-rx.com
 

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