This engine is a MESS!!
 

This is what you get when you do not change your oil "EVER".:eek:

Incredible:

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1281659

That's is probably exactly what our X5's engine looks like... oh man that's bad!!! How does it get THAT bad? seriously? so that happens from not changing your oil? :eek:

WOW. Where's that 240JOE or whatever her name was - the underwear model - who used to go on (over and over) about the wisdom of not changing oil.

We had/have a female underwear model as a member of the forum? :D

Never saw that on the listing of answers under "what's your job" thread, lol. :P

I am just amazed that any responsible person would let this happen.

It also makes me wonder how durable the BMW engine is, tho I have no basis for comparison, having owned only one BMW 525 in my life.

Best reason ever, to not buy a "lease return" usd car. LOLOLOL


When I was back in law school in '75 in Sacramento, the apt manager got a phone call from a friend of his, that had a Ford Pinto that was running bad and so he asked her when she had last changed the oil.


She said " I never did, the oil light never came on."


The car had about 46,000 miles on it.


So she took it in, and the oil came out in rock like chunks, she had to junk it right there, the whole car, it was finished, done.



WOMEN. Probably reproducd 10x, the cycle continues, :mad:

I'm surprised a Pinto made it 46,000 miles under any circumstances.

She claimed she was. Had a photo in her personal profile that looked kinda hot but dumb.

Whattayaknow, she was banned a few times but her profile is still up:

http://www.peachparts.com//shopforum/member.php?u=2463

Here's one of "her" threads where she'd go on about her ONE topic of interest. The photo on "her" profile could have come from anywhere:

http://www.peachparts.com//shopforum/showthread.php?p=1429069#post1429069

Few horses do; ditto, fishes that jump free of the water, Mavericks, mustangs, cougars, hornets, super bees, etc.

Holy crap, how could anyone do.. er... not do that? an oil change is easy

Yep a moron.

If I had the misfortune of buying a car like that I would yank the engine. I'd send the head out to be hot tanked and gone through, and pull the oil pan off and replace the pump and go through the bottom end.

That motor is pretty much shot or at best on borrowed time.

I just read the thread and find it amazing that they are more interesting in stupid cosmetic mods than the engine.:rolleyes:

Seen one at work almost that bad! I removed the most i could, ran the car on mobil clean 5000 and fresh filters. Last I remember, it was runnin great. We have alot of stupid customers that neglect there cars. The vanos and the HVA cam tappets will take the most of the beating, vanos can be rebuilt but the tappets would need replaced soon. Those are pretty dang tough engines, long as they dont get overheated bad. One thing BMW did was go to a 15K mile oil service interval.....Just too long, even then sludge starts building up. At our shop conventional oil 3mo or 3000mls and 6mo or 6000mls for synthetic. Alot of owners go over there SI so that makes an extended SI worse. We have some old M20's with over 300K on them and the insides look brand new and clean and still have crosshatch hone marks, all on conventional dino oil. The motor in the link can prolly be saved, lots of rapid oil/filter changes on Mobil clean after they clean it good. Id clean it out, run some engine flush in it right before they repair the vanos and change oil/filter. If its cleaning up, wait on the vanos a tad for more flushing as not to hurt the fresh vanos seals.

I might be pushing my luck but on my 325i e-30 I go about 7500 on synthetic. No reason to regret it so far - been doing it from when I got it (214K) to the present, 303K.

Also, I dropped down to mid range gas (89 octane) a few years after I had it, and about a year ago, went down to regular (87 around here) on the advice of another MS shop member. No pinging, so sign that it was a mistake . . . so far.

Hey now I knew a guy at a party that said he didn't change the oil in his lovely parent bought BMW since they got it for him on his graduation back in May of 08.

This was January of 09 :eek: I told him to go down Walmart and do it.

I've haven't seen him seen him since then to ask if he still drives it.

I doubt seriously that this woman, if a woman, was ever what she represented herself to be.