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Originally Posted by chrisveal
I have been looking into swapping oils. I recently had BMW do a oil consumption test and it is with spec but goes through about a later every 1300km. It's crazy.
I noticed most everyone goes to a thicker oil 5w-40 and 5w50 etc, I was looking at Castrol Edge website and noticed they do an oil that is 10w-60 which seems way to think but it does say that it is suitable for all BMW M-Models.
Has anyone tried this?
https://www.castrol.com/en_au/austra...-supercar.html |
I'd say the 10-60 is too thick on these engines, it was used on the previous generation M3/5/6, with the S65 and S85 engines. I wouldn't go much further than the 50 weight on the s63tu engine.
also that's a lot of oil consumption at 1300km. you can try and step up your oil grade and it should help, but that's pretty ugly. that shouldn't be ok, but BMW will say its probably ok even if it was blowing smoke out the back