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Old 07-24-2020, 11:48 AM
Zulfiqar Zulfiqar is offline
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Originally Posted by engatwork View Post
write up on variable displacement oil pumps

I was quite surprised how much it improves fuel economy and that the ECM can tell you are not running the correct viscosity. There are going to be a lot of second owners that don't quite understand the importance of good and frequent oil changes that are going to be severely disappointed.
This same oil pump is used on chev cruze turbo engines, and a lot failures happen after a few jiffy lube jobs.

The cool bit about the BMW is that the oil level sensor measures quality and temperature too - so the ECU knows what to set the oil pump drive to and measures the pressure and temperature after the pump also.
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