Re E36 Yellow gunk inside oil cap

["Brant M. Miller" <brant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Len -

Your dealer's techs are very likely correct.  Your 5 mile commute
may get your water temperature up, but it does not get
your oil hot.  You need hot oil to drive the moisture out.
The moisture is a combustion by-product.  It mostly gets
into the oil via blowby, the flow of a small amount
of combustion gas past the piston rings.  Even new
engines have some blowby.

Drive more.  That's why you bought the car!

Brant

>Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:56:30 -0500
From: Len Lescosky <Lescosky@domain.elided>
Subject: 328i E36 Yellow gunk inside oil cap

I checked the oil on my 1997 328i and saw I needed to add some oil. When
I removed the filler cap I saw yellow sticky gunk and some water
condensate inside the cap. . . .  They think it is exhaust condensate tha=
t
is not leaving the
engine because I do not drive far enough. My commute to work is about 5
miles of 30-40 mph.
Len Lescosky  <

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