The Blue Phoenix - E46 325i

[ViPER1313]

Damned if I do, damned if I don't, huh?

I'll look into the crankcase vent thing. I'd rather not keep blowing money on oil.

My serious advice is to switch over from whatever Synthetic you are running and put some Castrol GTX high mileage in it, then see how much oil you are using. You are going to drive yourself crazy and throw good money after bad chasing oil leaks on a 20 year old car, BMW or not, especially when you are operating with a close to 0 budget. 20 quarts of oil a year is $60, just fill it up. My SHO leaked a quart every 750 miles for 50k miles.... it cost me $200 and zero aggravation over 5 years.