Pitch black oil

[E30godz]

Who else has pitch black oil at every oil change?? i use mobil 1 15W50 and change every 4-5k and its like texas gold everytime! :D anyone else?

[Sean]

I'm using 15w-50 Mobil 1 in the 87n 325, and I checked it today. It's brown, but not black. Has close to 3,000 miles on it I think.

[randomtask37]

Re: Pitch black oil

Who else has pitch black oil at every oil change?? i use mobil 1 15W50 and change every 4-5k and its like texas gold everytime! :D anyone else?

my last oil change was damn black.

[Jordan]

I got 6-7k on 5-30 Mobil 1 in the M3

Comes out amber goodness every time.

[KenC]

I'm using 15w-50 Mobil 1 in the 87n 325, and I checked it today. It's brown, but not black. Has close to 3,000 miles on it I think.

15w50? Damn, that's thick. I use 5w30 in the winter.

[bmwguru007]

5w-30 is way light for these cars.

[KenC]

5w-30 is way light for these cars.

why?

[Fred]

Mine's always dark brown, never black.

[LikeCDoos]

dark brown for me, i change mine every 3k

[tobybmw]

0W 30 Amsoil Synthetic. golden brown every 4k.
Andy

[KenC]

0W 30 Amsoil Synthetic. golden brown every 4k.
Andy

You don't have any leakage problems with the 0w30? I was considering getting some. I'm running the 5w30 AMSoil now.

[iXer]

I use 5W40 and it's a necessity in the winter time where I live but it has good all year around properties as well. The previous owner had not taken good care of my iX and I made two oil changes within a few weeks and the colour got much clearer on the second change. Now that's the engine, you should have seen what came out of the rear diff, that was pure black tar. That oil had lost it's properties a long time ago..
I swear the car used less gas after the change of oil in the drive line, very noticeable out of gear when rolling down a hill or on flat road (much less friction).

[bmwannabe]

why hasnt anyone mentioned good old 10W-30? thats what ive been taught to use. Im actually changing to Mobil 10W-30 tonight.

[BavarianBimmer]

dark brown and I change it every 6250mls 0W60 CastrolRS

[M3 Ryan]

15w50 mobil 1 every 2500 miles, still somewhat clear.
I am running redline now, I will go 10k on this stuff...