B10 burning oil

martybmw3 · Post by **martybmw3** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:52 pm

Hi,

I was hoping someone may have an idea why my B10 is using so much oil. It is a 2000 year 3.3 touring and i have covered about 1500 miles so far and it has managed to burn about 2.5 litres of oil, this seems very excessive to me. I have had my local garage check it for all the obvious leaks etc and all seems fine. They did suggest maybe changing to a heavier weight oil, it currently runs on 0/30 Mobil 1. Any help or advice would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Martyn

Post by **Charles** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:52 am

Hi Martyn,

There is a known problem with c2000 6 cylinder engines fitted to B10's - they use oil at a higher rate than other engines.

ALPINA recommend a change of oil spec to Castrol TWS 10w-60

See here for discussions http://www.fastsaloons.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=62

KevinB10 · Post by **KevinB10** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:44 pm

Hi Martyn,
I have owned a B10 3.3 1999 for just over 2 years now and I average between 500-600 miles a litre. I do find it annoying on long trips that you have to remember to put a litre container in the boot. I got caught out last year when I put a litre in for the trip to Gaydon, the following week we went to Devon & I had to find a Halfords in Newton Abbot to buy some more.
I switched from Castrol SLX to TWs but did not notice any significant differance and have now purchased 4 litres of Castrol Edge [SLX replacement].

jacoda434 · Post by **jacoda434** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:17 pm

whats the cost per mer for oil

Post by **Charles** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:08 pm

jacoda434 wrote:whats the cost per mer for oil

Sorry for appearing thick, but what's a "mer"?

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:16 am

mon dieu!
a sea of oil

Post by D4 » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:14 pm

Charles wrote:
jacoda434 wrote:whats the cost per mer for oil
Sorry for appearing thick, but what's a "mer"?

I think an honest typo.

cost per mile for oil...

Post by **Charles** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:37 pm

I wasn't being awkward - I wanted to respond but even after an exhaustive attempt at trying different keys on the keyboard near to M, E & R, I still couldn't work it out.

Any clues Jacoda434?

Post by D4 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:53 pm

Charles wrote:I wasn't being awkward - I wanted to respond but even after an exhaustive attempt at trying different keys on the keyboard near to M, E & R, I still couldn't work it out.

Any clues Jacoda434?

I honestly believe it's cost per mile... considering that Kevin was taking on the post before about 500-600 miles per litre...

Geoff · Post by **Geoff** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:16 am

Hi Kev, I had an oil service in December changing to Edge 0/30 up to now it looks like the consumption has improved, will post after next top up.

minted_aye · Post by **minted_aye** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:30 pm

I had the same problem in my B10 3.3, Castrol 10/60 was what Alpina recommended and went from high consumption to vitrually none.

M5 was using Castrol 10/60 and a lot 1 litre for 500 miles had an oil flush and changed @ BMW to LLO4 all was good,