Full Oil Change on Friday, which oil should I use?

DinosaurEyes · Post by **DinosaurEyes** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:48 am

E89 35is 70k miles

Last time someone brought this up, the general consensus seemed to be Castrol Edge 5w30 was the best, right? Is this still the case or are there any others I should consider using instead, and why?

DinosaurEyes · Post by **DinosaurEyes** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:49 am

Is Titanium just new branding, same oil?

mr wilks · Post by **mr wilks** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:56 am

Oil as tyres is subjective & will divide opinion
My preference is for Millers CFS or Nano
Yours being a twin turbo heading for 400bhp performance id want something up to the job

goldbcfc · Post by **goldbcfc** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:10 am

last month I got oil and ecp was trying to tell me the castrol magnatec was cheaper and most modern cars now use it. I always thought magnatec was for diesels don't know why. Anyway as I've always used castrol edge in all my bmw's so I got that instead. Since then seen a few mention they always use magnatec

magnatec was £30 and edge was £37

if you use one of the codes can get edge for £32 at ecp

alane29 · Post by **alane29** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:24 am

Its personal choice i guess ,but i use Shell helix 5 -30 fully synthethic

DinosaurEyes · Post by **DinosaurEyes** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:35 am

The specs on Castrol Edge are suggesting the CASTROL EDGE 0W-30 for the N54. That's ok right?

mr wilks, is this the Millers one you mean? http://www.opieoils.co.uk/pv-98942-mill ... mentNotes=

mr wilks · Post by **mr wilks** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:57 am

Yes mate or Comp Fully Synth CFS is equally as good & a bit less ££
I buy Millers because I think its top notch quality oil & not for the supposed enhanced performance from it
When I put it in the ZM it was particularly for its qualities of lowering friction therefore keeping things as cool as poss

There are many reviews online to read & can't ever remember any negative ones . All make interesting reading

https://www.tegiwaimports.com/blog/445/

http://www.fastcar.co.uk/tuning/millers-nanodrive-test/

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:05 pm

Just make sure its fully synthetic and you can't go wrong

mr wilks · Post by **mr wilks** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:22 pm

Marlon wrote:Just make sure its fully synthetic and you can't go wrong

For the mostpart I would agree but M cars were developing problems that pointed to crappy oil or excess heat or both

The turbo cars also develop much heat & any way of keeping that down has to be a advantage , oil being the coolant + lubricant for the engine is probably more important imo than choice of fuel

patriot66 · Post by **patriot66** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:40 pm

Castrol Edge for me. Never had any issues with Castrol oil in any of my cars over the last 33 years. Never used anything else.

Baza · Post by **Baza** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 2:21 pm

I use Comma Syner Z 5w-30 A Fully synthetic oil .You can check out www.commaoil.com enter your reg and it will give you the recommendation and details

DinosaurEyes · Post by **DinosaurEyes** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:47 pm

Thanks for all the suggestions folks! I've decided to give the Millers a try and ordered that. Will be interesting to see if I can tell the difference!

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