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04-30-2025, 03:13 PM
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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, 03:17 PM
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#25927
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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, 03:25 PM
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#25928
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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, 03:28 PM
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#25929
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Need to Shave n Shower, but I CANT STOP POSTING ON RS
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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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half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF.
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reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z
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OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry:
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04-30-2025, 03:35 PM
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#25930
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Banned By Establishment
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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?
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They... got rid of the dipstick?! 
A 5.0-powered 128i would be fun!
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04-30-2025, 03:45 PM
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#25931
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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?
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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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Damn, not only is yours veiny AF, yours is thick AF too. Yours is twice as thick as mine.. That looks like a 2" or maybe even 3"?
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04-30-2025, 05:12 PM
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#25932
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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, 05:18 PM
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#25933
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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?
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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!
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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
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04-30-2025, 05:34 PM
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#25934
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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, 05:38 PM
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#25935
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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, 05:41 PM
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#25936
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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*
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lil suck and rub I see
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04-30-2025, 05:45 PM
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#25937
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Quote:
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*
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Originally Posted by whitev70r
Anyone take advantage of the no PST on PHEV or EV? Today is last day.
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I guess you don't need to take advantage of it since you got the money. 
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Stock & Noob Meet 2026 - Stay Tuned!
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Originally Posted by Badhobz
youre dating a panda express girl? shouldnt she be a really cheap date? also im pretty sure all panda express girls are mexican.
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04-30-2025, 05:46 PM
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#25938
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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*
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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!
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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, 05:49 PM
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#25939
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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
youre dating a panda express girl? shouldnt she be a really cheap date? also im pretty sure all panda express girls are mexican.
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04-30-2025, 05:54 PM
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#25940
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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, 05:55 PM
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#25941
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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, 05:57 PM
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#25942
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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!
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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, 05:58 PM
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#25943
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Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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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, 06:52 PM
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#25944
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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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Originally Posted by Badhobz
youre dating a panda express girl? shouldnt she be a really cheap date? also im pretty sure all panda express girls are mexican.
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04-30-2025, 09:21 PM
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#25945
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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, 09:27 PM
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#25946
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Stock & Noob Meet 2026 - Stay Tuned!
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Originally Posted by Badhobz
youre dating a panda express girl? shouldnt she be a really cheap date? also im pretty sure all panda express girls are mexican.
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04-30-2025, 09:28 PM
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#25947
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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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what 7 you say?!
你老母炒蟹
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05-01-2025, 06:01 AM
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#25948
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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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98 technoviolet M3/2/5
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Westopher is correct.
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seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked
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Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct.
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05-01-2025, 06:08 AM
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#25949
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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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Dank memes cant melt steel beams
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05-01-2025, 06:11 AM
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#25950
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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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