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Originally Posted by Obioban
Reasons to not do more frequent oil changes (prefaced by saying that I do them more often than BMW suggests by 2x):
1) oil is more acidic for the first couple hundred of miles, which can age components
2) Oil is thicker for the first couple hundred miles, so you're not operating at the viscosity they necessarily designed for (E.g. TWS sheers from a 60 weight to a 50 weight over the first couple hundred miles, then stays constant for a LONG time
3) needs time/waste/cost/effort
Changing oil more frequently is not only better, even ignoring cost/time/effort/waste.
Beyond that, there's other stuff going on in this thread, too-- like have the car display error messages when you get in the car, even after you code out the beeping and error on exit. That distracts from noticing real issues.
Mostly, though, it's just an incredibly dumb issue to exist in the first place.
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Thanks for understanding the issues I've written about. You get it.
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