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Originally Posted by Slagish
That's crazy. Well, checking the oil level on the car again and it's at the max line. On the screen there does seem to be room for additional oil past the max line so I wonder if the car would actually show above the max line? I will say this tho, for future oil changes, I will definitely only add 6, then slowly add the 7 until the car shows full from now on.
Looking at that Pennzoil website that relates 1.27 gallons, that's only 5.08 quarts. Now I want to try to find the actual maintenance Manual for my car. So how often would these techs actually put "6" or "6.5" when you take in your car for service. For that matter the full 7 like I did.  |
I wish I knew the answer to your last question. It's what happens when you have a BMW that's not the run-of-the-mill 7 qt variety.
I talked with a Service Advisor I know at a dealer rated as 5 star by DealerRater.com. He checked for me with a tech and said the 320i takes 6 qts with filter, and recommended initially filling with 5.5 qts and then checking the oil level with engine hot and on a level surface, using the iDrive procedure described in the owner's manual (engine running at idle in Park).
So it sounds like you're about a quart overfilled.
Forget about buying the service manual. It comes as software (that will only run on a MicroSuck platform) and is very expensive. Whenever I had a question about oil capacity I would go to the dealer parts dept and ask them to look it up on the TIS software, and swivel the monitor around so I could look at it with my own eyes.
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