Why you should change your oil

[skyrover]

So there's been a few threads on here debating the merits of frequent oil changes, so to illustrate the point why your oil should be changed regularly, here is a series of images showing what happened to this BMW with only 60,000 miles under it's belt and 40,000 miles since it's last oil change.

[jayemm89]

This is the PH equivalent of those pictures of cancerous smoker's lungs.

[ambuletz]

I bet you it would go really well in the Jailhouse chilli con carne.

[Andehh]

Surely modern BMWs and their up to 20k service intervals, as most manufacturers are, shouldn't be that bad? How old is the car?

[Welshbeef]

Bloody Hell I've never seen anything like that before

Is it utterly ruined or can if be saved?

[kiethton]

Sounds bad but I reckon my mates E46 320i would be like that...

Been serviced to spec...ish and has 120k miles but burns 1 litre of oil every 150 miles so hate to think where the solids are!

[williredale]

[eltax91]

I'm pretty sure that was posted before, but a while back. It was cleaned out, reassembled and ran again iirc

To me that's a testament to the engineering of the thing that it survived that and soldiered on....

[Motorrad]

I remember seeing those pictures before the internet existed, in fact possibly even before I was born and BMW ever made a car.

[bigandclever]

Original thread here ... http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.ph...

[GreigM]

skyrover said:

only 60,000 miles under it's belt and 40,000 miles since it's last oil change.

It was at least 60k between changes, not total.

[anonymous-user]

But it's not like it's anything important like an M135i or a VW camper van

[TheRealFingers99]

Anyone not changing their oil after 40k miles deserves to own a (broken) BMW.

[Willy Nilly]

Without wading through the link, could the wrong spec oil be part of the problem there, such as a mineral oil when a full synthetic is required?

[anonymous-user]

Not changing oil for 60k is a bit of an extreme example to be honest.