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Originally Posted by leftfootbr8king
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Originally Posted by Z K
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Originally Posted by leftfootbr8king
I have the oil drain valve from stahlbus. Highly recommend. both my drain plugs were stripped when I got the car, and I had to timesert them.
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The problem is, this sticks way down (about 20-30mm) on the oil pan. If you drive over anything that sticks up, you could rip it off the car and possibly destroy the oil pan.
The AGA tool seems to be much more compact, but at much more cost.
OEM plug is completely flush with the oil pan as BMW designed it that way. |
Sounds like you think the drain pan is the lowest thing on our cars up to that point rearward.
If I tear the cap off the stalhbus valve I've already wrecked a lot of other shit in front of it.
Perhaps our ride heights differ. |
I actually hit a berm at Buttonwillow and my drain plug was ground down to maybe ~3mm across half of the plug surface, my splitter and other mechanical parts were fine. Luckily I was able to get a wrench on to remove the plug.
It's an ECS drain plug, seems that they can take a beating but I think that's a one off situation, have no idea how nothing else was damaged and doubt it'll happen again.