Project F10 528i commuter

[turboneticsSS]

So I’ve been in nova for a year and a half now and feel way too separated from the car community and never thought about coming to the forums, so here’s my forum come back. I’ll post up the vette build later. As for the F10, I just picked it up last weekend used from Audi of Chantilly, it’s a 2011 528i and accomplishes what I wanted for commuting (30+mpg highway and comfy) as of now I don’t have too many plans, base wheels need to be swapped out and I need the m tech front bumper cover.

   
   

[Senor_Taylor]

No pics? Is this the first f10 in the club?

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[turboneticsSS]

Looking at these wheel wise, but in a gunmetal color, and the m tech bumper, this guy.
   
   

[Sijray21]

welcome back!

the M Sport look on the newer 5-ers looks great; if they're not to expensive to obtain it's definitely needed.

[turboneticsSS]

So when I was actually driving the car home from buying it, it developed a misfire under load. I was pretty pissed at first because I feel like the dealership hid it since it magically didn't happen on my long test drive. However $25 later for 1 coil pack and with new plugs it was good. I was lazy and didn't change the plug on cylinder #6 because I have to remove a bracket to get to it and was in a hurry at the time, well a couple days ago under load cylinder 6 was pulling the same crap. Replaced the plug and swapped around the coil pack just in case, well the misfire followed the coil pack so I ordered a new one. So I had to spend 50 bucks, not too annoyed as long as this new coil pack fixes it all (fingers crossed). I'm just filing it under a tune up, new oil this weekend will go in as well as double checking the "lifetime" trans fluid. It was a one owner car maintained at the dealership so I'm hoping for no more surpirses. Only drawback to being maintained at the dealer is they went w those uncomfortably long factory recommended oil change intervals.

[BLINGMW]

What are the oil change intervals? 10-15k is pretty reasonable on today's synthetics.
Now, I agree with you on the "lifetime" driveline fluids. Admittedly I haven't looked at oil sample analysis for any of those, but I have a hard time believing any fluid can do a good job and not be contaminated under normal use for 10+ years. But they certainly make it through the warranty period!

[Jake]

Sucks about the coil pack. I'm guessing for $25 it was a NAPA special? Hopefully a better brand (just go through FCP Euro for everything if you need it) will fix the issue.

I'd do 7-10k intervals but based on the computer's request. My F150s have tended to ask about every 7k.

[Sijray21]

What are the oil change intervals? 10-15k is pretty reasonable on today's synthetics.

Even with modern synthetics, the going interval for changes still seems to be 5k-7k per change; my manufacturer recommended 10k mile oil change intervals. Probably different for most cars, but i'd stick with 5-7k between changes. When i did oil analysis on my GTI for the first 5-6 years (i'm the only owner) i found that after the 7.5k mark the oil/detergents started to degrade. I've been doing 5k changes with dealer oem synthetic (oddly cheaper than auto parts stores) since about 100k though; no complaints.

[JPolen01]

Everyone on the internet loves to complain about long interval oil changes now, but no one ever has any research or data to back up their claims that this is dangerous. I joined an Accord forum and there is an entire sticky, maybe 40 pages long, with people arguing about when you should do your first oil change and then the intervals after that. I'm going with whatever the onboard computer tells me. From the analysis I have read from those who have sent their oil off for review, the summary stated that you can drive to 0% remaining life (on the Accord) and still have plenty of life left in the oil. The manufacturer has to build in a safety net because they know some people will ignore the warnings.

[turboneticsSS]

I prefer to stick to around 7k miles,(less for the vette because the engine oil is shared with the sc oil) I prefer to keep everything in there squeaky clean, and honestly I'm ok with it for piece of mind. I've seen people who've gotten blackstone analysis examples that support both arguments which isn't surprising on the internet. But again I do it for checking overall health and checking that everything is clean and with my audis I do it for making sure oil pressure is right for timing chain reasons, remember most manufacturers only care about the time until the warranty is up. But I really would prefer to keep this thread not a thread on oil change interval debate, because we could talk about it until we're blue in the face. The coilpack is a bosch coilpack, after the couple bimmers I've owned I wouldn't throw a no name coilpack on.

[.RJ]

Everyone on the internet loves to complain about long interval oil changes now, but no one ever has any research or data to back up their claims that this is dangerous. I joined an Accord forum and there is an entire sticky, maybe 40 pages long, with people arguing about when you should do your first oil change and then the intervals after that. I'm going with whatever the onboard computer tells me. From the analysis I have read from those who have sent their oil off for review, the summary stated that you can drive to 0% remaining life (on the Accord) and still have plenty of life left in the oil. The manufacturer has to build in a safety net because they know some people will ignore the warnings.

I talked to the dealer tech about that when I bought my Ridgeline.  He said that honda uses a break in oil for the first fill and it was better to leave it in than change it right away.  FWIW.  I change every 5-6k with synthetic, nothing ever broke from over maintenance and it gives me or the shop a chance to look over the car, although if you dont own a fucking bmw then this isnt so important.

[WRXtranceformed]

Bummer, sounds very bimmer-like, it comes with the territory. Hopefully your new coil pack fixed it.

I also like to stick to the maintenance minder intervals, the algorithms they use are actually pretty good now for predicting the end of oil life. From the 3 or 4 analysis I've sent off, 7500 miles on a good synthetic oil in a non-sports car seems to be the right number

[Evan]

When was the last time anyone's engine wore out or blew due to wear? Especially before 150k miles?

Ive read some testing where synthetic oil was still doing great at 20k+ miles. Just a filter change and its good to go.

[Senor_Taylor]

I prefer to stick to around 7k miles,(less for the vette because the engine oil is shared with the sc oil) I prefer to keep everything in there squeaky clean, and honestly I'm ok with it for piece of mind. I've seen people who've gotten blackstone analysis examples that support both arguments which isn't surprising on the internet. But again I do it for checking overall health and checking that everything is clean and with my audis I do it for making sure oil pressure is right for timing chain reasons, remember most manufacturers only care about the time until the warranty is up. But I really would prefer to keep this thread not a thread on oil change interval debate, because we could talk about it until we're blue in the face. The coilpack is a bosch coilpack, after the couple bimmers I've owned I wouldn't throw a no name coilpack on.

SC? Are you talking about the Vette?

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[ScottyB]

Ive read some testing where synthetic oil was still doing great at 20k+ miles.  Just a filter change and its good to go.

"great"? on a standard non-bypass filtration system?  i'd like to see that test, genuinely curious.

from everything i've seen, by 15k miles most oils are starting to severely oxidize as a result of the additive packs being spent.  they may show serviceable viscosity but that's not the whole story.  i wouldn't trust any off the shelf oil to that mileage unless we're talking non-stop highway travel.  particularly on a direct injected car or DI + turbo car.

equipment like big rigs can get by with 20-25k mile oil changes due to sheer oil volume and the particular additive packs they engineer into diesel oil formulations along with massive multi-filter byass systems.

But I really would prefer to keep this thread not a thread on oil change interval debate

my bad