I havent been out to the car park to check the oil level just yet, will do it when I am leaving. But i did call BMW and asked them the price on an oil service, £160 which seems steep for what it is. So i asked what type of oil is used and was told 0W30 Synthetic, so i might try and source some of this myself to keep costs down. Any brand in particular i should be aiming towards?
BMW 330Ci oil light just came on?
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Just lol. Scrap it and get a new one.
Mine is several thousand away from an oil change so cannot advise if it comes on when it's due (although handbook indicates a spanner will appear when it's due) however I would suggest checking the oil level and filling as necessary. Could be a faulty sensor or just simply needs more oil.
£160 doesn't sound that ridiculous depending on what type of oil service it is.
and you should check your oil level after a journey that has warmed the engine up and left it 10-15 minutes to cool, not when the engine is cold.
Mine is several thousand away from an oil change so cannot advise if it comes on when it's due (although handbook indicates a spanner will appear when it's due) however I would suggest checking the oil level and filling as necessary. Could be a faulty sensor or just simply needs more oil.
£160 doesn't sound that ridiculous depending on what type of oil service it is.
and you should check your oil level after a journey that has warmed the engine up and left it 10-15 minutes to cool, not when the engine is cold.
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This. I love how half the people on OcUK will offer advise even though they've got absolutely no idea how the car in question actually operates. It does not mean low oil pressure.
It is a thermical oil level sensor which calculates the volume of oil in the sump.
lol, my thoughts exactly, I read the owners manual of my 330i from cover to cover when I got mine.
I quite agree. Amusingly there is a page in the handbook which explains EXACTLY:
a) How to check the oil
b) What the various oil lights mean
Not knowing what the light does is a bit silly, but there is really no need to be doing the dirty task of manually checking oil levels in a car with oil sensors which does not leak or burn oil.
Dude check your manual. There are different explanations for the oil light and different scenarios mean different thing. Yellow light while driving - Top up oil ASAP. Yellow light appears when ignition is turned off - Top up withing 50 miles..Etc etc.
But after spending so much money on something that can be potentially expensive to fix, why let a sensor tell you when you are low on oil when it's possible the sensor itself could fail? It's a two minute job that can save you huge bill.
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Is this the reason, when someone say 'spec me a 4k car', that a 330ci is not the answer?
No, it's because you can't get a good 330CI, for £4k ...hell I'm not sure you'ed even get a bad one for that. You could get a 330I though, or a 328CI.
A £4k 330Ci is properly ropey but yea, its partly the reason. A £4k 330Ci is a car you buy when you have £6k to spend on a car.
I wouldn't want to rely on a sensor for oil level, with a dipstick i'm sure it's a handy set-up... but a sensor alone seems a like a bad idea.
People seem to forget that the car cost well over £20k(?) new so despite it only costing £4k it will still cost the same to run as a £20k car. Just because it costs that little doesn't mean it's going to cost little to keep on the road.
It's the reason why a brought a Fiesta when I had £1k to spend on a car. Could have purchased an old Beemer or something like that but do I really want the bills associated with such a car.
It's the reason why a brought a Fiesta when I had £1k to spend on a car. Could have purchased an old Beemer or something like that but do I really want the bills associated with such a car.
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Invoice for mine was £35k, a 330Ci was barely any cheaper.