Engine Drivetrain 2nd Gen S Most liked posts in thread: Checking your oil level...

Somebody raised the ugly dipstick issue recently over on the sewingsite. My response was something like never having any trouble discerning the difference between oil and not oil. At least they are attempting to check which is a lot more than can be said for some folk. I guess for some, problem solving is not a reliable tool.

 

The one in Babs clubster is like the one above. I figured out how to check the oil long ago, but the video is nice for those who haven't. Where's the how to open the bonnet video?

 

MINI just replaced the dipstick with lifetime oil. No checking or changing required.

 

Guy came into the shop last week......I kid you not.....13 quarts of oil in it!!! Need less to say not running. Steve said it blew the seals, not sure what ones :crazy:

 

All one needs to do is wait until the change oil light comes on. Then call the dealer & get it in there for a change in a week or so. Easy.

 

I had a 1937 Fordson tractor with no dipstick. It had a little spigot, on the engine block at the proper oil level. Before starting it you checked the oil level by opening the spigot, if oil came out, you were good to go, if nothing came out, you added oil until it did.

Maybe people who have trouble with reading a dipstick should put a little spigot at the full line on their engine.

Dave

 

Ya think??? Try living in Brownbackistan. We're closing in on the 13th century.

 

I'm glad to see MINI responding to genuine concerns (only took them what, 5 years?) but I also never had any problem reading my dipstick, and I find it interesting that so many do.

On my car it's easy tho, it doesn't seem to use any oil between changes.

 

The one in the video does look like it's a spring dipstick rather than the solid plastic ones in our cars now, but it seems unlikely MINI would do that, the metal one probably weighs several ounces more than a plastic one!

 

That's what mine looks like, I have no problem reading the oil level on it.

Dave

 

Problem SOLVED by eliminating the dipstick! Already on BMW and now coming to the F56. :skep:

 

:crazy: Ruh Roh! This doesn't sound good. Sounds like when the new French/Peugeot/Prince panty waist hair dressed engine was going to be so much better than the Brazilian/Chrysler/Pentagon/Tritec engine. Of course, they forgot to mention there being NO adequate supervision/quality assurance of the subcontract OEM parts manufacturers ala: timing chain tensioner oiler, turbo charger oil cooling, reverse Polish logic computer programming................................................................:lol::lol::lol:

Jason

 

@ 1:48 ... "We've seen bad oil level sensors and customers added 3, 4, 5 even 6 more quarts of oil into an engine ... only way to truly check the level is to drain the oil and measure it ..."

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb9-j3lZCq8]BMW Checking Your Oil Level Using The "I Drive" and some troubleshooting tips - YouTube[/ame]

 

Really? BMW's don't have dip sticks? How do you check the oil, strictly by the computer?

 

Oh for the days when you could actually work on every part of your car Oh well.....times a changin.....:crazy:

I mean....we even have electric shift on our road bicycles now, you can hook them up to a computer and adj. how you want them to shift :arf:


SHIMANO brings electronic shifting to the new Ultegra platform

 

Yup or when you hear metal on metal followed with a little bit of limp mode you many need oil. All you have to do is drive a few hundred miles to your local dealership. :arf::lol::lol::lol:

 

When I was checking out the soon-to-be "my" M1N1, I had to show the salesman where the bonnet release was. He was looking on the drivers side. In his defence, it was not a BMW/MINI dealership.