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2. I WILL call BMW. I am sure they can't wait to hear from me. "Operators are standing by....." 3. Riot? YES, what a great idea. Let's DO IT! :mad0 260:
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Engineers do not do a change just because its for the better of the consumer but for the better for them or the company. Having the ability to tell consumers that our car tells you this and that. Lets you know when the brake pads are getting low, your battery is on its last cell, etc. Engineers do things to complicate the simplest of tasks. I come across a lot of engineer made work that is a PITA to work on because they said it would never fail but it does. I just want to find them and tell them "Keep it simple, stupid".
Its a lot better for us whom still change their own oil, get down and dirty on their car and aren't lazy people like most of the world is getting to a point. Its crazy that I have to drive my car for 5-10 minutes before it even registers and I hope that its telling me the truth. The e-dipstick is dumb. Having motor oil in your car for more than 10k miles is dumb, want to know why? One word: sludge. I also hate the e-LSD and rain sense wipers but those are another subject. |
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12-17-2015, 12:21 PM | #47 | |
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Would ANYONE want to buy his car from him at some later point? I hope not.
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I was optimistic when I first got the car.
Years of success with BMW engineering gave me faith in the design. It only had to take one oil change to show me just how much BMW missed the mark in this area. Maybe they got it right with the F8x, but it has been my experience that the refresh rate of the sensor/ECU in the E9x just doesn't cut it. This is especially problematic when you have a motor with tolerances that don't allow for ANY overfilling. The granularity just isn't there, which makes absolutely no sense. I followed the BMW blog to a 'T' and was 100% screwed by the sensor not updating correctly each time oil was added and a reading was taken. It was giving me inconsistent readings from start-up to start-up without even having changed the oil level. What the fuck is that? All of this would have been easily alleviated by just having a dipstick I could pull out after each .25L is added past the 8L mark. I honestly believe that this was added to the car to drive more owners to their service centers for oil changes. Let me get out my tinfoil hat.
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Physically unable? Unless a thick wallet full of cash doesn't allow the person to lay under the car or lean over the fender into the engine bay, then I can't seem to see someone physically unable to work on their car. If they want to please the masses who buy their car, do both. Can't possible hurt to add a dam dipstick. There are more than enough dipsticks with a very good vacuum sealed design out there to implement into this motor or any motor bmw offers.
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12-17-2015, 03:55 PM | #51 | |
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But in general car companies (and lots of other companies) are just taking the fun out of working on your own car and going with the masses of letting people be lazy. Thats just what I see in our society today and a totally different subject than whats at hand. |
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I was speaking from personal experience - I am physically unable "to lay under the car or lean over the fender into the engine bay", but I am far from lazy. I also know many Wounded Warriors and others who cannot do it physically. You need to use more brain and less brawn.
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And in regards to physical disabilities, those people will take their car to a trusted mechanic. And in defense of said mechanics, I think they rather a car company make their job easier rather than make it more tedious, like waiting around 5 minutes for the sensor to read what the oil level is. Never meant anything bad or called people with physical disabilities lazy. It's understood that some just can't physically do the work.
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Understood - thanks.
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Anyone have the Bimmerworld dipstick installed? Curious to see where it sits in the engine bay.
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It consumes a liter of oil about every 6,000 miles with a oil pan gasket leak and rear crank seal leak. Stop talking about what you don't know about. If you can't understand the concept of dielectric measurement of oil to determine the contamination level of it, then that's on you, not me and not BMW.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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I guess most BMW users these days don't need a dipstick. What is simpler than checking the oil while sat in the car and just reading a screen? That is if you are that bothered, and need to know the physical oil level. I'd personally prefer both a sensor and a dipstick, but for me I'm only really bothered if the sensor is not working, then you get a warning anyway. In this day and age the sensor is more important than a dipstick, as it is doing three jobs, measuring oil condition for the CBS regime, oil temperature and oil level. BTW, the electronic display does show oil level drop in segments, so you can see how low it is. You don't have to wait for a 'quart' (litre) drop to monitor and top off the oil level. |
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Take a chill pill. "Stop talking about what you don't know about"????? Geez....it's the Christmas season. Relax.
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