I ended up getting 10 liters of Castrol Edge 0W-40 euro formula, which is LL-01 certified, for $50 off Amazon. After a $38 credit I had, my oil change will only cost $30 including the filter.
Maybe I should check what they sent me. I assume the kit included LL04 oil, but maybe BMW still sells LL-01. I'm not where the remaining bottles are. I know I have one extra.
Either way the Castrol is good stuff and it is also available at Wally Mart as an alternative.
Due to BMW having so many engine & turbo problems, they tried to blame their problems on other people. Anyone who tells you to run an oil for 15k mile oil changes, is asking for trouble. They change their oil change intervals on the newer engine to 7.5k or 10k miles to try and eliminate their problems. I don't care what kind of oil you put in your engine, but at 5k mile oil changes nothing will fail.
I used to use Castrol Edge 15K or Mobil 1 0W-40, or 5W-40 as long as you only go 10K miles between oil change intervals. They just will not go the 15K mile interval set on a lot of the older BMWs. I have let one BMW OEM LL01 oil chg go 15K so I could see what the oil looked like. The oil was very black but, It was still not thick like I expected. I could definitely tell that it was not protecting the engine like it should. It appeared to be much thinner too. I am not an oil engineer but, It appears the oil was well past its service life at 15K. Just my 2 cents.
At my shop, I tell customers to change their oil no longer than 10K for non turbo engines and 7.5K for turbo engines. BTW, I now only use European Liqui Moly Oils in my and my customers cars.
Liqui Moly is BMW current approval oil.
I was able to get 12 liters of Castro TWS 10w-60 from Advance Auto Parts locally.
$10.99 a liter . Doing oil change today on my Newman Marcus M6 (#7 of 50)
Check your local stores.
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