Oil smells like oil but Mobil 1 smells like bread....

[Ryan Stewart]

or is it just me?

[M3 Ryan]

yea, it smells better than other oils...
best one is marvals mystery oil, smells like candy 8)

I am about to fill up my M3 with BMW TWS Castrol 10w60, that oil is slick... smells better than the regular 5w30 BMW oil too...

[demlotcrew]

Castrol is rubbish.


(silkoline)


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[SA E30]

Castrol can't be too bad... if BMW recommends it :D

[IS]

Castrol is very good oil - probably the best dino oil. Its valvoline and quaker state you have to watch out for - think teflon and other harmful additives.

[golde30]

mobil 1 synthetic is great...

unless u have an m20 with 150K+ miles and never changed the piston rings...then u get mad blow-by and lose about 1.5 quarts between every oil change... :roll:

plain old castrol gts for me....

[E30ownerwithanopinion]

mobil 1 synthetic is great...

unless u have an m20 with 150K+ miles and never changed the piston rings...then u get mad blow-by and lose about 1.5 quarts between every oil change... :roll:

plain old castrol gts for me....

I agree with that when I first got my IC i used synthetic and my allowance could not cover cans of oil between changes so I switched back to regualr and wala a lot less leakage.

[kansas-ix]

castrol is great dino oil, I don't know of any better.

[matt325is]

Amsoil is not dino oil, and it smells like shit, seriously, take a whiff of it, you'll regret it. However, you can really smell when you have a leak heh.

matt

[E30godz]

royal purplse is pretty good i thought....though i dont ever remember sniffing it

[KenC]

Amsoil is not dino oil, and it smells like shit, seriously, take a whiff of it, you'll regret it. However, you can really smell when you have a leak heh.

matt

You're not joking. I had a small leak through my head-gasket that dripped down onto the down-pipes. It smelled so fucking horrible.

[demlotcrew]

Castrol can't be too bad... if BMW recommends it :D

F1 sponsorship anyone?

:roll:

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[Den]

Reports abound on the E28 boards of 300,000+ original miles on Castrol GTX.

[Mystikal]

I have 200k original miles on Quaker State 20W-50, and people swear the stuff sucks. Still lays down 143hp to the wheels completely stock, too.

That said, I'm putting in 15W-50 Mobil 1 Syn tonight. No real reason, just believe synthetic to be theoretically superior.

[M3 Ryan]

my E28 has almost 300k on the engine, never had the head off, and doesn't burn/leak any oil in 7k mile changes with synthetic. I have run redline, royal purple, mobil 1, now I run castrol 5w30 bmw oil, cuz its cheap to me through my work...