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Had my 1st service done a couple months back. I just happen to be cruising through the idrive a few days ago and went to the "engine oil" area. It reads "level too high" or something similar. called my SA with my concern that it might have been overfilled at the 1st service and that perhaps engine oil frothing might be occurring.
The SA seems to be very knowledgeable and is an M enthusiast. He assured me no more than 9 quarts were put in - that since the M oil does not come in huge vats, but only quart bottles, these errors don't occur - service guy counts out the bottles, gives oil to tech, tech counts bottles etc.
He also said with the oil system in these cars it would take around 12 quarts for frothing to occur.
He owns an older M3 (I think an '89 but with an engine from E46) which he tracks. He added that many guys tracking E90 M3s are running 10 quarts of oil.
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