BMW E60 M5 No Dipstick- High Oil Level And How To Correct It
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to the world of owning a car that doesn’t have a dipstick. Does your oil level indicator show you have an excessive amount of oil?
In this video we discuss some of the issues you can run into using the electronic oil indicator, and how to correct the oil level should you need to.
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This was a life saver. Did my oil change today and i lacked sleep so i forgot to drain the second drain plug that holds at least an extra quart. The car protected itself by not allowing me to exceed 2.5k rpm and gave me all kinds of alarms. This solution is the most cost effective way to solve this big headache of a problem. Thank you!!!!
No worries man, thanks for checking out the video
Under prior ownership my E63 M6 had it's oil changed every 1,500-2,000 miles. Now I need to top off the oil with a quart and this is super helpful. Thanks!
Thanks for checking out the video man
Your a hero man thanks . Dummy here over filled it a week into ownership. Great content man 👍👍
Cheers man, good to hear you found the video useful 👍
Doing the oil change drives me insane sometimes with the crazy readings haha but driving this beast is all worth it 👌 🙌 😅 keep up the good work 👏 👏👏💯
I know right! Insane procedure for an insane car
Thank you for making all of these videos.
No worries man, thanks for watching!
Thanks man, I didn’t even think about draining it from the filter plug.
No worries, thanks for watching man 👍
Thank you again for the great video clip. This’ll save my engine for sure. Good day Mate & have a wonderful New Year
Happy new year 👍
U r an angel
Cheers brother
Nice video. Please i wanted to know if you can help. I just bought a M5 E60 V10 2006 model. The car starts but the automatique gear nod doesn't move. Do you have an Idea please? The service engine light stays on
Make sure the bonnet is fully shut. You need to scan the car for codes to see why the engine light is on. It may give you a brief description in the idrive
@@MTechGuy ok thanks alot. I'll do as you Said and get back to you. I do appriciate.
does the car continously monitor oil level or do we need to do checks on it by doing the reading ? in other words if it says engine oil level ok is that from the last manual read or the cars auto last read if any ? thnx
It will auto read over the long term, so the level shown is current. You only really need to do another read if the level has been corrected
@@MTechGuy They burn oil is the thing .. Mine has 100k km ( 60k miles ) and driven last change about 1200 mi / 6 months i dropped the oil in a guaged pan and saw level dropped about 8.5 qts .. should see 10 in the pan .. all time car said oil level ok .
@@MTechGuy One other thing Not sure if its because mine is 2010 ( final year ) it only says oil ok or not i do not get valued readings above min ... 🤷♂
@@jayd1008 Capacity is 9.3 litres, at 8.5 it’s within less than a litre low which it’ll deem OK. You should be able to read the increments of the last 1 litre of the oil level
@@MTechGuy Thanks bud ... also when i did this I ( try to drain from the filter housing I didnt get any oil over about 2-3 ozs ... why would that be ? spring in housing stuck possible ? thnx
Is there a way to build the oil pressure before starting the engine? So you turn it on the starter until the oil light goes and the sparks and injectors are disabled for the time. It would be useful in the situation where you don't drive the car for a longer period
You could disable the injectors using ISTA, or pull the fuel pump relay & DME relay and crank it. These cars have a very efficient oiling system though, primes really quick so wouldn’t be too concerned
Great video 👍
Thanks for stopping by again Stuart 👍
Hi the computer said that my oil was 1l below minimum. I put a litre in an tryd to do the test. When I see my reading it says 1.5l. But when I look at your video it says 1.5l but the middle picture when you look at the arrows yours is coloured in orange where mine is blank
Drive it around a bit and give the computer a chance to take an accurate reading
+1.5l is fine. My engine builder here in the UK (Mr VANOS) says it is best to keep it around +1.5l).
I use 1.3 as the cut off. If you use 1.5 how do you know the level isn’t beyond 1.5? The indicator doesn’t read higher than 1.5
@@MTechGuy when it is above 1.5 mine does actually warn me and tell me there is too much oil in it. 1.5 and below it doesn't.
Old video I know but looking to pick up an e63 m6 soon so will be watching all videos you have. Mr Vanos has also done work on this example I'm buying, however car is showing 1.5l and overfill readout on the CCC screen
When doing oil change, just put exactly 8.5 litres in. Car will be fine and no faffing about afterwards.
All mine say is ok not a number?
My E87 shows the min-max range followed by OK message. My M5 doesn’t, maybe it thinks it’s not OK!!! 🤷🏻♂️
Why don't you leave it at 0.8 I don't understand you..It's perfect. You filled up again even though it was more than fine and again overfilled..
I never fill up to max. (only after a new oil change) 0.5 is good enough and I do an oil level measuring every time I drive to always be sure.
I have a facelift though with 2 oil plugs, whereas you pre-LCI only has one and always keeps some of the old oil in. That's the reason it reads more even if you put the right amount in.
Some people with a pre facelift change to the facelift oil pan to get 2 drain plugs and to be able to completely let all old oil out.
Because I’m obsessed with maintaining the oil level the max line 🤪 I’ve always found when the long term (accurate) reading does its thing, the indicated level always drops. 0.1 over is nothing
I get a shade over 9 litres drained every oil change with the single drain plug
Correct procedure is to allow the car to idle for two or three minutes before turning off the engine prior to doing the oil change. This is supposed to allow all of the oil to be pumped back into the main sump where the drain plug is. I’ve got a 2010 car with the second drain plug, and when the procedure is followed very little additional oil is recovered from the second drain plug...
True, that’s the procedure I use each time. Check out my E60 M5 oil change vid 👍