Oil Light!

[Jooboi89]

Hi All!!

My oil light came on today, i’m usually worried when lights start showing as I actually have no idea about cars and they always seem to fail on me.

Any how, it had a service in December and although its not due again til December or another 10k, I can’t help but wonder why it would be low on oil already. Is this a common fault? I think i do have a small oil leak somewhere, are these potentially big bills?

Any advice welcome!

[srhutch]

BMW list acceptable oil usage of 1 litre per 1000km. How many miles have you done, and do you know if the garage filled it to the max at the last service?

[Jooboi89]

srhutch,

It was on half way around 2 months ago.

Iv covered about 4k since so that would make sense to need topping up...?


I only bought the car 2-3 months ago.

[road warrior]

bloody check it.. pronto.. i wouldnt be running round with only half full of oil..

[Jooboi89]

bloody check it.. pronto.. i wouldnt be running round with only half full of oil..

According to what others have said when i researched, its perfectly ok to run... even when the light shows you have 250 miles (but obv needs topping up asap) i just wasnt sure on how much oil is generally used

[Mr Tidy]

According to what others have said when i researched, its perfectly ok to run... even when the light shows you have 250 miles (but obv needs topping up asap) i just wasnt sure on how much oil is generally used

I've no experience of the 2.0, but if 1 litre per 1,000km is acceptable and you've done 4,000 miles I'd say that's excellent! By BMW standards more than 3 litres would have been OK!

And if it was on half-way 2 months ago it's only used half a litre. Just get some in pronto.

[adam04]

I tend to stick upto a litre in every 3 months or so, they do burn a little bit of oil so the light coming on isn't uncommon between services. Buy a 4 or 5 litre tub and stick it in the garage so you can top it up from time to time.

[Jembo]

Suggest you buy a 1 litre bottle for the boot & then obtain a 4 litre bottle for ‘topup’ from Costco or Eurocarparts.... to fill up ur 1 litre when used.

My old 3.0 used to give a flashing almost like clockwork every 3k miles, your usage is definitely normal but as above, always fill ASAP

[Jooboi89]

Thanks everyone, I bought a 1litre earlier, and it's now at 3/4 mark as I didn't want to risk over-fill. All is good!

JB