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Burning oil?
- Chris_D
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Burning oil?
Jesus, couldn't listen to that guy any longer than 15 seconds. I think this was him in a previous job :
Maybe useful for some with an oil burning issue. Certainly when I replaced my CCV system it stopped gulping the gloopy stuff but there are more symptoms than just this. Duff piston rings, scored bores, borked seals can also all cause high oil consumption.
Maybe useful for some with an oil burning issue. Certainly when I replaced my CCV system it stopped gulping the gloopy stuff but there are more symptoms than just this. Duff piston rings, scored bores, borked seals can also all cause high oil consumption.
E85 3.0i roadie (03) 'Benny'. E93 320d M-Sport Cabrio (11) 'Bob'.
'Always different, always the same.' John Peel on The Fall.
'Always different, always the same.' John Peel on The Fall.
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- Lifer
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Burning oil?
Yes but cheap starting point to look at first.
My car burns 1 litre over 10k miles, so any change in that would ring alarm bell.
My car burns 1 litre over 10k miles, so any change in that would ring alarm bell.
- tintoverano
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Burning oil?
I started using 5W-40 in the N52B25 instead of the 5W-30 and it worked
mSport 23i
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Coding Help, Stubby, Remap, K&N filter, Cruise Ctrl, Reverse cam, Instrument Cluster Color, UR front brace, CDV delete, Android on CIC, Roof Module, LSD
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- Lifer
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Burning oil?
These Zeds are the first car that i have owned that have sooty exhaust for a petrol engine.
- Ewazix
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Burning oil?
It seems to be a BMW thing, my late Cooper S builds up carbon on the chrome tips in no time even when spanked, but uses no oil. I think it's modern fuels (somehow)
2003 2.5 SE, low miles, Sterling Grey, 108's & Eagles, no stubby here! Unmolested.
2018 Cooper S Countryman
Fiesta Ecoboost
2018 Cooper S Countryman
Fiesta Ecoboost
- enuff_zed
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Burning oil?
I too wondered if it was fuel, not oil?
Maybe because they let a bit of fuel down to induce all the pops and bangs?
(But my new 120d has now covered 5400 miles and the pipes are still shiny chrome, inside and out. Not a single deposit from the 'dirty, disgusting, polluting diesel'.)
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- Lifer
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Burning oil?
Possibility.
Funny because sometimes you look down a diesel exhaust and the baffle is shiny silver.
Funny because sometimes you look down a diesel exhaust and the baffle is shiny silver.
- mr.tourette
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Burning oil?
Newer dtec engines with particulate filers aren't allowed to smoke are they so actually less polluting these days than petrol all older lorries and busses though will probably still be pretty bad
if its got tits or tyres..its trouble