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My Oil has been very low for the past 100 miles and i have not had time to take it to the dealer, is this bad for the car
How many miles until it damages the engine?
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How low, is it lower the minimum of the oil indicator? Has the oil low warning light came on?
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Just go to BH BMW and get a bottle of oil
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you'll know it's bad when the engine freezes
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If you look in the owners manual it shows you how to add oil. Just remove the cap and pour in the bottle of oil. Assuming your car is giving you a low oil warning pour in the entire contents of a 1 liter bottle.
Make sure you pour the oil into the engine and not the windshield wiper fluid resevoir.
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Its easy to add oil yourself but carefull with overfilling! What I do is I wait until it prompts to add 1lt, and only then I add the entire bottle. It is an advise I got from my BMW service tech and it is the easiest and safest way to top up the oil!
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For a noob, you dove right into a boatload of mods... NOT that there's anything wrong with that...
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You have to be careful not to add the entire liter if the warning light has not turned on yet. Too much oil can damage your engine as well. Also, you have to add a minimum of .5 liters for the electronic dipstick to register the change. If you start messing around by add little by little, the dipstick will not register properly. Thank god we don't have a regular dipstick anymore.....
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Unless it tells you to add oil, don't mess with it. The capacity is 8+ quarts for a reason. Trying to keep it topped does no good and risks damage.
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noob at adding oil im gonna do it right now its actually funny that this is my first time adding oil considering i have had 3 cars and 3 years of driving expierience
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always add no more th1 1/2 qt at a time. mine said add one qt. I added 1/2 , drove it and it said full. if I had added the whole qt I could have got an overfill message.
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