Oil change quirk

BMWinAZ · 10-25-2018, 12:31 AM

Started doing my own oil changes. Did my R55 Mini first a few days ago and now moved on the e90. The Mini drained the oil straight down like a good boy, the e90 "peed" sideways ( towards the passenger door) quite vigorously initially. Took me by surprise and the catch pan was not quite in the right place! Mopping up oil is fun ...

Efthreeoh · 10-26-2018, 06:10 AM

Oil Dry, or cat litter. Keep a 5-gallon bucket of the stuff in your garage.

S65Hunter · 10-29-2018, 09:57 PM

I made a little thing out of tin that directs the oil straight down into an oil catch pan.

hellokitty · 11-01-2018, 12:23 AM

Yep this is pretty annoying. It pissed sideways and always splashes over the underbody splash guard and creates a giant mess every time I do an oil change. I am thinking of just removing the undercarriage cover so I don’t have oil spraying everywhere.

10-25-2018, 12:31 AM	#1
BMWinAZ First Lieutenant 104 Rep 328 Posts Drives: 2013 335i, ‘08 328i, ‘03 316ti Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: US & Germany iTrader: (0) Garage List 2009 Mini Cooper Cl ... [0.00] 2003 BMW 316ti [0.00] 2013 BMW 335i [0.00] 2008 BMW 328i [0.00]	Oil change quirk Started doing my own oil changes. Did my R55 Mini first a few days ago and now moved on the e90. The Mini drained the oil straight down like a good boy, the e90 "peed" sideways ( towards the passenger door) quite vigorously initially. Took me by surprise and the catch pan was not quite in the right place! Mopping up oil is fun ...
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10-26-2018, 06:10 AM	#2
Efthreeoh General 17204 Rep 18,695 Posts Drives: The E90 + Z4 Coupe & Z3 R'ster Join Date: May 2012 Location: Virginia iTrader: (0)	Oil Dry, or cat litter. Keep a 5-gallon bucket of the stuff in your garage. __________________ A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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10-29-2018, 09:57 PM	#3
S65Hunter Major 1185 Rep 1,455 Posts Drives: 2009 E92 M3 Join Date: May 2018 Location: Dallas TX iTrader: (0) Garage List [0.00]	I made a little thing out of tin that directs the oil straight down into an oil catch pan.
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11-01-2018, 12:23 AM	#4
hellokitty Brigadier General 2894 Rep 3,726 Posts Drives: '17 M3 ZCP DCT Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern California iTrader: (2)	Yep this is pretty annoying. It pissed sideways and always splashes over the underbody splash guard and creates a giant mess every time I do an oil change. I am thinking of just removing the undercarriage cover so I don’t have oil spraying everywhere.
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