Recent content by ben721364

Sensitive aren't we? <g> Good for you with respect to RFT and German electronic oil level gauges. Been there. Done that. In both situations I was sorely disappointed. I drove BMWs (cars and motorcycles) from the late 1960s. BMW cars are no longer for me, at least at the time being...

I'm glad you like RFT. I have owned two cars (a MC-S and a E90) with RFT and didn't like them on either. They became embarrassingly noisy after 10K mi and didn't transmit road feel. Perhaps at some point in the future they will be improved. I hope so. Likewise, I prefer a dipstick to...

I too like the looks of the Z4 more than the others. I have owned 14 BMWs and loved all but the last one, an E90 sedan. It was the only BMW that I sold prematurely. It just didn't feel like a BMW to me! The E89 car has the two specific features that irked me in the E90. I drove an E89 today...

Thanks. Truthfully, I haven't been enamored with the steering with any BMW cars since the E36 and E39 models.

Thanks. That's what I feared. The rft, numb electric power steering and lack of a dipstick appear to be deliberate efforts to drive me from the BMW fold forever, after having owned 14 or more of them. Oh well...

Have any of you fitted an old fashioned dipstick to the engine?