Missing dipstick hole!

londonTiger

!!!!!!! hell. Stop jumping to conclusions, wait for OP to respond back stating the make & model of car and why they beelive here should be a dipstick.

ariba10

She bought a spare dipstick, could she not buy a spare hole?

reddwarf2002

Surely it would have been easier/quicker to give BMW a call and ask them whether the car should have a dipstick? It would remove any doubt...

Iceweasel

agrinnall - if it had been a new poster, rather than yourself, I'd have been suspicious that it was DM with another wind-up.

It all depends how old the car is.

BMWs have not had dipsticks for some time now - with one or two exceptions - so it's more than likely that there never was a dip-stick.

It's all done/checked via the i-drive - with the engine running.

Menu - vehicle information - vehicle status - oil check - a green message should appear with the words oil-level OK.

There is also the option to measure the oil-level - the engine speed will rise a little and a progress bar will appear - after it is finished there is a bar graph which shows if oil is required.

Same with checking the tyre pressures - the exact pressure at each wheel is displayed on the screen.

All new cars have TPMS - if there are grey rather than black rubber valve stems then the TPMS will display.

Older TPMS just warns that there is a pressure loss, but doesn't say which wheel/tyre.

Clever innit?

All in the handbook of course- if you get one - as that's all on the i-drive too.

Personally I would like to have a traditional dip-stick in addition to the electrickery -and a physical paper handbook too.

I'm on several BMW forums and we frequently get new posters searching for not only dipsticks, but spare wheels, toolkits, and loads of other things that were never fitted at the factory.

Some old-school types would have us back in the days of distributor-points, top-upable batteries and perhaps even starting handles too.

pappa_golf

they have 710 caps on ebay as well

motorguy

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

Whilst some BMW engines do not have a dipstick bar the driver at times the OP makes it very clear that the dipstick was missing therefore leading most people to believe that they would have checked if one was in it to start with, Also slightly different engine sizes would be different size dipsticks therefore would have required the OP's friend to check prior to buying one.

I think where your logic fails here is if they deemed the dipstick to be "missing" by virtue of a hole with no dipstick in it, then why are they unable to now find the whole? :eek:

Short term memory problems perhaps?

pappa_golf

can something be "missing" if it was never their?


I don't think you buy BMW dipsticks on ebay by the dozen , and a part like that would come from the main dealers or a breakers , would those people not have asked and received more info about the vehicle before supplying one




PS , if there is not a great big oil slick under the bonnet , no stick (or hole) was fitted

Stevie_Palimo

motorguy wrote: »

I think where your logic fails here is if they deemed the dipstick to be "missing" by virtue of a hole with no dipstick in it, then why are they unable to now find the whole? :eek:

Short term memory problems perhaps?[/QUOTE]

No short term memory problems at all just get fed up with all of you guys who post on the motoring section of this forum that believe they always know each and every answer and then attempt to belittle anybody else. Your a wee clich! of individual trolls with little else in your lives.

arcon5

agrinnail it's getting Dark in here...

see how stupid it looks now ;]

bigjl

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

Whilst some BMW engines do not have a dipstick bar the driver at times the OP makes it very clear that the dipstick was missing therefore leading most people to believe that they would have checked if one was in it to start with, Also slightly different engine sizes would be different size dipsticks therefore would have required the OP's friend to check prior to buying one.

Some engines the dipstick is pretty far down.

How old has the car been owned?

Is it possible that it doesn't have one and this was the first time the owner was under the bonnet checking levels.

If the OP gives an idea of the age of the car then it will be easier to figure out if there actually was a dipstick.

A mates 116i didn't have a dipstick that I could see, neither did my 116D, both where around the same age. The 116i slightly newer.