Goodbye Engine Oil Dipsticks

Iceweasel

Money_Grabber13579 said:

Iceweasel said:

BMWs still have dip-sticks.
As well as an on-screen display and a low oil-level warning.

It must be model dependent - my 2015 3 series doesn’t have one.

Mine did - I thought it didn't until it was shown to me.

I was looking for a conventional dip-stick top end - yellow or red - but it was small and black.

Not obvious, and didn't look like any dipstick handle / finger hold that I'd ever seen before.

Believe me, it's there - if you know where to look amid all the other black bits on the engine.

sevenhills

EssexExile said:

I've never needed to, they do it at the service and it lasts all year.

When I bought the car the salesman opened the bonnet to show me what was there, nothing much really, a great big bit of plastic hid anything of any interest. I could see where the water goes, and the oil, I asked where the brake fluid went. The salesman thought for a bit then pointed at the air conditioning access points and said "perhaps there".

When you are buying a car it's good to look at the oil on the dipstick to see if it's dirty or even milky because of a blown head gasket.

Ganga

Iceweasel said:

Money_Grabber13579 said:

Iceweasel said:

BMWs still have dip-sticks.
As well as an on-screen display and a low oil-level warning.

It must be model dependent - my 2015 3 series doesn’t have one.

Mine did - I thought it didn't until it was shown to me.

I was looking for a conventional dip-stick top end - yellow or red - but it was small and black.

Not obvious, and didn't look like any dipstick handle / finger hold that I'd ever seen before.

Believe me, it's there - if you know where to look amid all the other black bits on the engine.

I am sure it will show it in the car owners handbook .