5 Ways To Make Your BMW's Engine Last Forever 

N55 engine oil is 5w30. This is not too thick. I wouldn't worry about waiting for the engine to warm up. I would probably say don't drive hard until the engine warms up.

Have a twin turbo V8 X5 M50i , I let that thing warm up for a good 15 min before I start driving just to be sure everything is circulating.

Thanks man , what a nice video (short and full of information)🔥🔥. And that M2 is looking good 😈. Keep the nice work man 😉

Warm-up is a nightmare on modern engines. Electronic control of the thermostat selects a setting somewhere between 70 and 115degC depending upon the detected driving behaviour. This means that a car driven gently much of the time will have a working temperature so high that it will degrade the plastic parts such as in the cooling system, casings of sensors and the chain tensioner, and make them more brittle and prone to failure. This is not an excuse to thrash it, even though that will tend to lower the thermostat setting down to rally car levels!

This guy is clueless

I don't track my car but BMW's are made to run hard.. Changing oil every 3,000 miles? They did that when the kid wasn't even born.

This young kid knows much more than BMW....Lol

Good video good idea but there are a couple of correction. Regarding letting your engine warm up fully, it is a debated topic. You warm up the engine quickest by driving it around gently. There is thought that if you let it idle, it does take longer to warm up so in theory you are getting more oil dilution than you just driving it gently (cold engine, piston rings isn't sealing as well as operating temp, fuel into engine oil). Personally I let it idle for a minute or 2 and then just drive it gently until the oil is up to temp. One thing I would say about oil. If you don't need to (driving in winter), don't run 0w-30 BMW oil. I done 2 analysis on the oil at really short interval (~1500 km) and they were not on spec. They thinned out to about a 20 for viscosity already. I run 5w-40 in my M2. Your comment around voiding warranty is not true. The dealership would only refuse warranty if the aftermarket modification can be linked to the failure. I had full bolt ons on the car without a tune and I had plenty of warranty work done on my car (Rear rotor/caliper, oil pan gasket, tail lights, head unit replacement). I'd say the only thing sketchy to do would be a tune. As soon as BMW sees you messed with the tune, likely they will BS it and link it to your issue. But other wise all the dealerships I been to had no issues with my bolt ons (4 dealers in total). It is a very very common misconception that you mod the car in any way your whole warranty is voided. PS, if you are running a cone filter, you might want to look into additional filtration. The cone filter compared to the OEM panel filter barely does any filtering. I do run a cone filter but I have put on an additional filter sock on top. (When I was doing my oil analysis mentioned above, the lab mentioned they found high silicon and asked me to check my intake system for leaks. It is mostly due to dust being sucked up. I never mentioned to them about my intake and the only thing I changed was the intake to an aftermarket one that year. There was also no leaks. Upon further research on the forums, it is very obvious cone filters really don't filter much.

Those wheels look dope with that blue! Is it Le Mans Blue?

Automotive engineer first year student here. New cars 90% of them are using hypereutectic pistons. They have 12.5% silicon in them which prevents thermal expansion. There is literally no reason to sit and idle a car for long periods of time anymore. Even our oil it may get thicker in cold but we have 0w oil now which is so thin it can work in the coldest countries. the 30 or 40 after the 0w-5w just means the oil acts like a 30 to 40 weight oil but has the same base.

just use the old tried and tested warm up procedure wait until your coolant temps are at least before driving off 80c and 90c before flooring it.

Dude woke up and decided to talk out his ass

its never going to happen

Yeah, next step is how to make the electronics last forever

same thing apply to the m2c?

Whats the name of the rims?

that OG M2 is clean as hell. Can't wait to get the predecessor 1M or M2 comp

I'm sorry but the glass bottle analogy was dumb.. it'll break either way cold or hot also why did BMW made a 2 piece pan when it could been done with 1 whole piece. Sometimes automakers do make dumb decisions

Perfect advise, the warming up, the early oil changes. ( BMW is running all kinds of oil change specials ) Not sure I agree on your air filter idea ,filter sucking up Hot air in engine compartment regardless of filter box. I’m no expert . You didn’t mention automatic car shut off for fuel savings, I hate this stupid feature. You just come off of the interstate going 70+ you get to the exit and stop,and your engine shuts off ,seems counterintuitive. Use Premium fuel if required ,I think is a good idea, drive it not beat it.

Why do clueless people make videos about this😂 0:20 byebye