Dipstick design - no, hear me out!

[Surestick]

Nothing much to see. 5k-mile old oil.

Oil level looks good and I see your using the new Castrol 0Worangepaint weight oil!

 

[930.engineering]

A Mini comes with a poorly designed dipstick, what a shocker. Safe to say there's more than a couple poorly designed parts on those cars.

Looks over-designed by 25% to me.

It's a French designed (PSA/Stellantis) engine assembled in Hams Hall/England. What would you expect? Core components were made in France and delivered to Hams Hall.

Production

www.bmwgroup-werke.com

BMW had very little share in this design (more or less limited to providing their Valvetronic and Vanos technology).

One key flaw is the lack of a combined oil temp & level sensor. That has been pretty much standard even when production started in 2006. That said, this so-called 'Prince' engine is still in production (Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, Vauxhall). From what I'm able to discern even the dispstick is still the same.
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