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Originally Posted by glewinnek
I bought my first BMW--a 2002-in 1968, and my last one in 2005. My salesman in 2005told me to watch out because BMWs are oil burners. I broke it in as I always have with a new car, and then added the first quart of oil after 100,000 miles. It did not burn oil.
I seem to remember that for the first time I did not have to change the break-in oil, and was told that BMW runs the engines on a stand, then changes the oil and then installs them, so that the engine is broken-in before we get the new car. I would be interested in whether any of you ignored break in and then kept the car more than a 100,000 miles? Did you ever have to add oil?
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100k miles must be wrong. I think its for the transmission, axles and all the other moving parts more than engine.