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      11-12-2011, 09:15 PM   #7
Jimefam
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Drives: 2011 550I Msport
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Originally Posted by TheGr8Swami View Post
My 550i with XDrive is also consuming oil and my dealership states that it's within specifications. My car now has around 5100 miles and it's burned through 6 Liters of engine oil. The next time this car needs oil, I may try a mix of Lucas Oil Stabilizer and BMW LL01 spec oil.
WOW if my car was burning that much I'd be doing a compression test! I cant understand how any tech could look you in the eye and tell you that its perfectly normal to go through a quart of oil in 800mls. I'm now determined to find out where its burning this oil from, as I said earlier I'm just waiting on the engine to cool down and I'm pulling the intercooler piping to see if I see oil in it. If not I'm checking the valve cover hoses. I'd like to pull the plugs too to see how they look but I think I need a specific bmw tool for that.
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