Mini 10,000 Mile Oil change

[Rygrego]

I test drove a 2015 BMW Mini with the turbo. I went into the shop to check the oil info and was told that
I should bring it at 10,000 miles. They said "we use Castrol Oil, it is a special oil from Germany." What say you?

That car requires a load of expensive maintenance at around 100,000. Beware, fun car, but beware.

 

[factorytuned2012]

I test drove a 2015 BMW Mini with the turbo. I went into the shop to check the oil info and was told that
I should bring it at 10,000 miles. They said "we use Castrol Oil, it is a special oil from Germany." What say you?

Is it the turbo 3?

• For the MINI Cooper F-Type models with a three-cylinder engine manufactured from 2014 onwards MINI recommends a High-Performance SAE 0W-20 engine oil that provides superior protection and performance for three-cylinder engines and meets the BMW Longlife-01 FE or BMW Longlife-01 specification.

 

[edyvw]

Is it the turbo 3?

• For the MINI Cooper F-Type models with a three-cylinder engine manufactured from 2014 onwards MINI recommends a High-Performance SAE 0W-20 engine oil that provides superior protection and performance for three-cylinder engines and meets the BMW Longlife-01 FE or BMW Longlife-01 specification.

Tell us you don't know what you talking about, without telling us that you don't know what you talking about!
LL01: 0W30, 5W30, 0W40 and 5W40, min HTHS 3.5cP (THIS OIL is what OP should use!).
LL01FE: 0w30 or 5W30, min HTHS 3.0cP (FE: Fuel Efficiency).

0W20 in BMW oil approvals is LL14FE or LL17FE.

 

[factorytuned2012]

Tell us you don't know what you talking about, without telling us that you don't know what you talking about!
LL01: 0W30, 5W30, 0W40 and 5W40, min HTHS 3.5cP (THIS OIL is what OP should use!).
LL01FE: 0w30 or 5W30, min HTHS 3.0cP (FE: Fuel Efficiency).

0W20 in BMW oil approvals is LL14FE or LL17FE.

info is pulled from a mini forum

https://www.minimania.com/part/NME7...0-Oem-Full-Synthetic-2016-F54-f55-f56-f57-f60

 

[svenson]

10k miles is nothing for a normal daily driver, most on BOTIG got to much time for oil changes and just do it for the fun of it.
I do 5000km oil changes because i want to but i will never tell anyone else to do it. The oil comes out more or less new when i do a oil change. 10000 miles is nothing for a modern oil.
Most modern good and stable synth oils would probably do 40km easy today. We change oils at 1k hours at work on volvo machines which is around 40 000 km converted and the oil is just a basic semi synth 10W-30 and we have no engine failures.

you remind me of a guy in a forum that was claiming that he had never had an OCI for 250.000 km in his car ,just filling and it was OK` !!

 

[Strumpan_]

you remind me of a guy in a forum that was claiming that he had never had an OCI for 250.000 km in his car ,just filling and it was OK` !!

Thats probably a little too long of a oci

 

[GSCJR]

If you end up purchasing the Mini, get a UOA done at 5000 miles; everything else is just speculation.

 

[Pablo]

If you end up purchasing the Mini, get a UOA done at 5000 miles; everything else is just speculation.

This would be a good start v relying on speculation, projection and FEAR

 

[edyvw]

info is pulled from a mini forum

https://www.minimania.com/part/NME7...0-Oem-Full-Synthetic-2016-F54-f55-f56-f57-f60

Forums are opinion based.
Anyone who puts 0W20 and LL01 in the same sentence knows about Mini like I do about neurosurgery.

 

[factorytuned2012]

Forums are opinion based.
Anyone who puts 0W20 and LL01 in the same sentence knows about Mini like I do about neurosurgery.

What makes this forum any different?

 

[edyvw]

What makes this forum any different?

Maybe the expertise of a lot of members? You just joined. Reasearch.
Regardless, I told you that 0W20 oils are NOT LL01 and LL01FE oils.
There are numerous threads here addressing the differences between approvals.

 

[factorytuned2012]

 

[Snagglefoot]

Castrol products currently have a lot of shelf space at Canadian Tire. Here are some of the products. Castrol Edge European Formula 0w30 made in Belgium.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Here is Castrol Edge Eurocar 0w40, made in Belgium.

 

[Snagglefoot]

And here is Castrol Edge Euro Car 5w40 made in the USA.

 

[edyvw]

Castrol products currently have a lot of shelf space at Canadian Tire. Here are some of the products. Castrol Edge European Formula 0w30 made in Belgium.

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Edge 0W30 is still IMO best MB229.5 and LL01 oil available.

 

[chris719]

Castrol products currently have a lot of shelf space at Canadian Tire. Here are some of the products. Castrol Edge European Formula 0w30 made in Belgium.

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Very old bottles on the 0W-30. Label changed in 2021… not an issue just an observation. They must not sell much of this stuff.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Very old bottles on the 0W-30. Label changed in 2021… not an issue just an observation. They must not sell much of this stuff.

The photo was of a one liter bottle, spelled 1 litre and had additional required French printing, signifying it was manufactured for sale in Canada and not the USA. The container print mentions it was repackaged in the USA.

I would think this product sat in a Wakefield warehouse in Toronto. I don’t think Canadian Tire would keep this product in its own warehouse as they have a “just in time” supply chain.

Someone must have either over-ordered a supply of empty bottles in the USA or they actually filled the bottles three years ago and the product was sitting in a warehouse in Canada or the USA if the bottle design is indeed three years old. Also possible is the volume of the product was low enough that they didn’t change the bottle design for Canada when they changed the USA design.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Here is a one quart bottle with US markings and new bottle design. Maybe it’s the watered down stuff.

 

[svenson]

what the laughs all about? if you laugh with edyvw's answer then you dont seem to respect the respectable expertise members opinion ,so why you chose this forum?

Here is a one quart bottle with US markings and new bottle design. Maybe it’s the watered down stuff.

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"watered down stuff" ??? i havent noticed such an opinion about a castrol oil in bitog yet,so are you joking ,considering the emoticon innuendo or is there something i didnt know?


well,searching for old 0-30 castrol bottles i found this one from 2014:

https://msdspds.castrol.com/bpglis/...42C9C6C80257D3A00616613/$File/BPXE-9DD3KL.pdf

has bmw ll01 approval but on pds specs says hths 2.9 !!
but the min is 3.5 for ll01 ,isnt it? am i missing something? just for education reasons since its an old badge.