Mobile One 0W-30 - potential valve cover gasket leak
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Suppose I have to keep touching wood............LOL
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I have owned 8 BMWs over the past 44 years and accumulated over 1,500,,000 kms on 3 2202's, an E12, 3 E30's and my present E60 (2005 545) with 250K kms.
All have leaked a small amount of oil, more like sweating, usually at oil pan or valve covers.
Its probably a Canadian thing.
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BTW, I have always touched wood on my BMW's, since I purchased a Nardi wood shift knob on my first 2002 and kept transferring the knob to the subsequent BMW's. So maybe it was that that brought me luck.
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I have had no car, whether German, American, Japanese, Korean that have not leaked oil. I used to own a shop and every single car brought there for service had an oil leak somewhere along it's life span. Any oil accumulating in the splash guard under the engine & transmission and not making it onto the ground does not qualify as not leaking.
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I have had no car, whether German, American, Japanese, Korean that have not leaked oil. I used to own a shop and every single car brought there for service had an oil leak somewhere along it's life span. Any oil accumulating in the splash guard under the engine & transmission and not making it onto the ground does not qualify as not leaking.
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I have had no car, whether German, American, Japanese, Korean that have not leaked oil. I used to own a shop and every single car brought there for service had an oil leak somewhere along it's life span. Any oil accumulating in the splash guard under the engine & transmission and not making it onto the ground does not qualify as not leaking.
Their are a lot of variables that contribute to a car leaking. Number one is the owner it self (regular maintenance). With BMW/Mercedes/Audi these are German engineered vehicles that are made to be put on the autobahn (unlimited speed in rural areas mostly). Here in the states we have no such thing which is another major contributing factor to why we have so many leaks. If they engineered the US spec vehicles with gaskets that work here in the US (interstate going only 75 mph) then we would not have as many problems with leaks. US drivers do not generate enough heat long enough to keep our gaskets expanded. If you ever noticed if your car sits for a week you will have leaks you never had but those leaks can be eliminated by just getting on the interstate for a joy ride. I have lived in Germany a third of my life (I'm 34) and have seen the difference. Not saying that no ones car in Germany leaks but there is a difference. Being able to drive 180Kmh legally versus driving 75mph legally makes a big difference.
Just my insight on cars. I could be wrong
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All I know is that gaskets will fail. MB even tried to engineer two mating surfaces with out a gasket on the 280E/CE (W123) with no luck. It still leaked at some point. I should refrain from using "always" and "never" in a sentence, as a single occurrence proves the statement wrong, however the statement was made to illustrate the idea "gaskets do fail" in whatever application it is used.
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I With BMW/Mercedes/Audi these are German engineered vehicles that are made to be put on the autobahn (unlimited speed in rural areas mostly). Here in the states we have no such thing which is another major contributing factor to why we have so many leaks. If they engineered the US spec vehicles with gaskets that work here in the US (interstate going only 75 mph) then we would not have as many problems with leaks. US drivers do not generate enough heat long enough to keep our gaskets expanded. If you ever noticed if your car sits for a week you will have leaks you never had but those leaks can be eliminated by just getting on the interstate for a joy ride. I have lived in Germany a third of my life (I'm 34) and have seen the difference. Not saying that no ones car in Germany leaks but there is a difference. Being able to drive 180Kmh legally versus driving 75mph legally makes a big difference.
Just my insight on cars. I could be wrong
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Instead of protecting them, spread the word out about reliability problems and hope others don't buy them. They may change something then. For now they will continue intentionally design for poor reliability to make more money.
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