Here us a picture of my A4 top end while replacing the oil separator. Almost 80k miles. 10k oci with Ravenol RUP 5w-40
Quick shot of my old E39 M5 through the fill hole which I think would meet your tight engine bay, physically large engine criteria. I have no idea was the previous owner ran, this was M1 0w-40:
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FWIW while varnish causes a lot of bed wetting on BITOG, I've taken apart a fair number of engines that looked like absolute crap inside but wound up in the junkyard because the car was wrecked or the transmission failed.
Good pictures … What they look like when not wiped down …218,000 miles on my 2003 running Mobil 1 at 10,000 oil changes.
If you click here you will see that the engine that ran only on Royal Purple from new to 36k miles, then Amsoil 36k-151k, still ended up being varnished. OCIs were 6k-7k miles. Thoughts?
Our 2000 C230 Kompressor with 89,000 miles has had yearly changes with Mobil 1 0W-40 Euro, Looks as good as this BMW M5 - Good stuff.Quick shot of my old E39 M5 through the fill hole which I think would meet your tight engine bay, physically large engine criteria. I have no idea was the previous owner ran, this was M1 0w-40:
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Our 2000 C230 Kompressor with 89,000 miles has had yearly changes with Mobil 1 0W-40 Euro, Looks as good as this BMW M5 - Good stuff.
I'll have to say, that engine looks awful. Varnish everywhere and looks to be heavy wear on the camshaft lobes.First thought has to do with the quality of Royal Purple lol.
No, this is the 4 dr. sedan, C Class, C230 from 1994-2000 - I know the one you are talking about, tho! I have been seeing one at my work day morning coffee spot lately, a black one. I had forgotten about those! This is ours...That is one Benz I would buy. That is the small sportback hatchback wagon-ish one, is it not?
With the Supercharged 2.3 ?
Had to update the cam chain tensioners on this Jag V8, nothing noteworthy other than a clean engine. No idea what was in it but original spec was 5W30 dino and it got Edge 0W40 a couple thousand miles before this job.
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