I noticed the other day some blue smoke behind the car, i thought it was another car kept driving, today i noticed again a small amount of blue smoke after i pulled away from the light. Its not a huge cloud of smoke but it was undeniably coming from my car. I just went outside and turned the car on let it idle for about 10mins and gave a hard rev and got a small amount of smoke nothing crazy.
Im pretty much convinced 3/4s of the common problems with this era of BMW is due to the long oil change intervals. I got nissans, some with 300k on them doing 3-5K intervals not a drop of oil burned off, infact the oil one that does burn oil is because of an aftermarket turbo and its the turbo not the motor burning oil, i know its not that BMW uses cheap rubbers and other materials to build their motors. Of course this is just my theory. :dunno:
But im not in a position to spend 3Gs in repairs right now. Moving to a thicker oil(15W-40 or 20W-50) is what i plan to do and change the oil every 5-10k instead of 20-30k or whatever is recommended. Hopefully slow down the progression of the valve seal problem. Im pretty sure it will not but im not use to BMWs yet so moving to a synthetic 15W or 20W oil or even a dino since they tend to be a bit thicker and better with oil burn off and slipping past seals, should not cause problems?
Im uploading a vid of the smoke i saw.
Im pretty much convinced 3/4s of the common problems with this era of BMW is due to the long oil change intervals. I got nissans, some with 300k on them doing 3-5K intervals not a drop of oil burned off, infact the oil one that does burn oil is because of an aftermarket turbo and its the turbo not the motor burning oil, i know its not that BMW uses cheap rubbers and other materials to build their motors. Of course this is just my theory. :dunno:
But im not in a position to spend 3Gs in repairs right now. Moving to a thicker oil(15W-40 or 20W-50) is what i plan to do and change the oil every 5-10k instead of 20-30k or whatever is recommended. Hopefully slow down the progression of the valve seal problem. Im pretty sure it will not but im not use to BMWs yet so moving to a synthetic 15W or 20W oil or even a dino since they tend to be a bit thicker and better with oil burn off and slipping past seals, should not cause problems?
Im uploading a vid of the smoke i saw.