Hey everyone, first post.
I did two oil changes recently and thought I'd share my findings. One on my own '97 BMW E36 2.5l and another one '06 Opel/Vauxhall Corsa C 1.0l (this one was long over due)
BMW used oil looked fine to me. M1 0w-40 New Life ran for about 10-12k km. I afterwards cut open and spread the oil filter for further inspection. I hardly found any shining particles of metal, but unfortunately a lot of dirt. The filter really worked here, maybe you guys may take a look at the pictures and tell me your thoughts. I should mention that I received this car recently, and it really had a hard time before. Even though only 80k km on the engine, it just did around 2-3km each day in the past with BMW 0w-30 Longlife-04 (atleast the grade was good for this condition). This was the first oil change interval with mostly long distance trips.
The second oil change was on the Opel. Mystery oil 5w40 grade was filled in, I finally changed it after 25k km. I screwed off the cap of the oil filter housing, expecting to take it off with the old filter. It did come off easily, but there was just one half of the filter on the cap, the other half still sitting on the pole inside the housing. I took it off and had to clean the housing off all the oil filter scraps. The filter material was really stiff and brittle like coal, it instantly fell apart by touching it. Filter function completely broken. I'm not quite sure if the filter was destroyed like this due to the longer interval or because the shop didn't even change it before. Your thoughts on that? I'm quite happy I have done this oil change and replaced the filter...
BMW with M52 engine oil filter
Opel Corsa C, Bosch oil filter, fallen apart, after 25k km
btw: Addinol 5w40 0540 filled in both engines now.
I did two oil changes recently and thought I'd share my findings. One on my own '97 BMW E36 2.5l and another one '06 Opel/Vauxhall Corsa C 1.0l (this one was long over due)
BMW used oil looked fine to me. M1 0w-40 New Life ran for about 10-12k km. I afterwards cut open and spread the oil filter for further inspection. I hardly found any shining particles of metal, but unfortunately a lot of dirt. The filter really worked here, maybe you guys may take a look at the pictures and tell me your thoughts. I should mention that I received this car recently, and it really had a hard time before. Even though only 80k km on the engine, it just did around 2-3km each day in the past with BMW 0w-30 Longlife-04 (atleast the grade was good for this condition). This was the first oil change interval with mostly long distance trips.
The second oil change was on the Opel. Mystery oil 5w40 grade was filled in, I finally changed it after 25k km. I screwed off the cap of the oil filter housing, expecting to take it off with the old filter. It did come off easily, but there was just one half of the filter on the cap, the other half still sitting on the pole inside the housing. I took it off and had to clean the housing off all the oil filter scraps. The filter material was really stiff and brittle like coal, it instantly fell apart by touching it. Filter function completely broken. I'm not quite sure if the filter was destroyed like this due to the longer interval or because the shop didn't even change it before. Your thoughts on that? I'm quite happy I have done this oil change and replaced the filter...
BMW with M52 engine oil filter
Opel Corsa C, Bosch oil filter, fallen apart, after 25k km
btw: Addinol 5w40 0540 filled in both engines now.
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