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Originally Posted By: dailydriver ^^^You could also try the Mobil 1 5W-50 when it goes on sale (for $5.99/quart) at NAPA stores every three months or so. Unfortunately, that's way too heavy of a 5w for me. The 80ish of the Castrol is even too heavy.

Long story short, I bought the M3, all was fine. It developed a lifter tick, which I unfortunately did not notice for a bit. It was running on very low oil, below the safe point. Somehow quite a bit had dropped. Don't ask me how, it hasn't dropped since. It had M1 0w40 in it, I changed it to...

Long story short, my 98 E36 M3's lifters started to make a racket. I had ordered the Liqui-Moly Hydraulic Lifter Additive, but it took more than a month to ship, I switched to 5w50 and all seems well now, besides Vanos thumping. But anywho, since my lifters are nice and quiet now, I don't...