Recently ive been changing the oil in my 240d with supertech 15w40 oil. Since then ive been noticing that in the mornings when its cold, its taking more time for the oil pressure gauge to reach a full 3 bars, sometimes over 12 seconds. I also noticed that my engine started using oil, the entire drive from california to washington over 1000 miles, this engine never burnt one drop when i was using delvac and suddenly its acting wierd and burning oil.

So today i put some synthetic 15w40 in there with a touch of atf fluid to try and clean everything up, and then i drove about 300miles down to portland and back. About halfway down there, the oil pressure gauge became very responsive where as before it used to lag behind the engine rpm's, now its very accurate. The engine also didnt use any oil the entire trip.. Im never going to use that oil again its not worth the .50 cent savings at all.

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1981 240d (engine donor 1983 240d) recently rebuilt engine hurray! - No more.. fought a tree and the tree won.

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