UK N54 Owners read this - Oil related

martymil

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The good thing about LL01 it has a far longer shelf life but still change it at 5000km or 3500miles intervals.

Its great for weekend warriors.

If you do a lot of km then any good performance oil will do as long as you distance base change it at 5k km intervals and if you do a hell lot of long trips you can take it up to 7.5k mile or 10k km or 12 months.

The problem with LL01 and LL04 is BMW changes it at 15000 mile intervals.

If you ever taken a 100 k mile engine apart based on their mIntenance schedule its literally fed up and full of sludge.

Ive personally seen LL04 engines showing a build up of sludge at 50k km or 30k miles based on the BMW schedule.

My personal view on LL04 is stay clear of it, yes I know it's a standard BMW set but its something in the oil that makes it sludge up quicker.

If you need to use it I would change it at 5k or 6 month intervals, oil is cheap and recyclable.
 

9krpmrx8

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15 k mile oil interval recommendation is insane to me

I looked a mint (looking) 1 owner 335is recently that had 35k on it, it was dealer serviced only and the first oil change after purchase was not done until after 14,000 miles and the last two were done after 10,000+ miles. Not a car I would take a risk on myself.
 
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mcleansc

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I'm getting involved in this oily mess. I use Fuchs Titan Race Pro S 5W-40 Ester Fully Synthetic in my N54. I never see anyone discussing or using it on the forums which kind of worries me 😂 As I understand it, it's a very good oil? Anyone else run this or am I making a mistake not using the more recognised oils used in the forum's?
 
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E92 420

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I'm getting involved in this oily mess. I use Fuchs Titan Race Pro S 5W-40 Ester Fully Synthetic in my N54. I never see anyone discussing or using it on the forums which kind of worries me 😂 As I understand it, it's a very good oil? Anyone else run this or am I making a mistake not using the more recognised oils used in the forum's?

Iv used it for Quite a few years now. Great oil. You got no worries with that. These are American forums and Fuchs oils I believe are Not mainstream over there.
 

rev210

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There is horses for courses.
If you do the occasional track day or beat on your car like you are at a roll race , drag or circuit you need to consider how long you are exposing the oil to the conditions.
Race oil is designed for short interval changes(one or two weekends of whatever) . They have far less degergent content and typically far higher zddp . The former because you arent accumulating deposits etc because of race conditions and oil drop intervals , the latter is higher because the race cars usually dont have or dont care about replacing clogged cats. Zddp in maxed amounts found in race oil means that race oil is not a cat person.

Oil selection is important but, not rocket science. Debates on mysterious oil ratings often end up a discussion akin to superstitious belief . This can be easily dispelled with through simple education . I found a few Redline video/s that do an ok job to explain a while back that do a better job than I could.

 
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Subwoofer

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There is horses for courses.
If you do the occasional track day or beat on your car like you are at a roll race , drag or circuit you need to consider how long you are exposing the oil to the conditions.
Race oil is designed for short interval changes(one or two weekends of whatever) . They have far less degergent content and typically far higher zddp . The former because you arent accumulating deposits etc because of race conditions and oil drop intervals , the latter is higher because the race cars usually dont have or dont care about replacing clogged cats. Zddp in maxed amounts found in race oil means that race oil is not a cat person.

Oil selection is important but, not rocket science. Debates on mysterious oil ratings often end up a discussion akin to superstitious belief . This can be easily dispelled with through simple education . I found a few Redline video/s that do an ok job to explain a while back that do a better job than I could.

Very informative reply, thanks!
 
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