Car Talk 6: Best of times and Worst of Times

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SAWCE
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golftdibrad1 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2025 12:50 pm
SAWCE wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2025 11:59 am

I know I’m misremembering what the guy at the shop said, but one of the little slide rails in the assembly itself broke. It’s “closed” now, but can’t seat all the way because of that broken part, so the rear passenger side is popped up a little bit.
might help



also this?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/236034292888
Oh thanks dude. I’ll send that to the shop and see if he thinks it could work. Would be dope.
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D Griff wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2025 4:57 pm
Melon2.0 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2025 4:35 pm Wow, the N20 is a plastic cap but aluminum housing.
The rest of the fleet is canister spin-on filters so, no worries there.
That’s right, didn’t remember the exact situation other than the plastic cap. Honestly a very easy car for erl changes, no complaints.
The X3 has an aluminum oil pan with a traditional drain plug too.
It's the same one that the AWD version has, it's got the hole for the driveshaft in it and everything. .

Makes oil changes even simpler although I had no issues with the plastic one on the 328i
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