Recently I bought a new BMW and soon enough warning signs popped up to notify for oil change. I was washing and shining this car and my other cars when my son came and asked me if I check the oil level once in a while on cars. I then opened up the hood and looked for a bright orange or yellow tip for some dipstick there and found none. I then used my best LED flash light, stared, looking deeper, only to find nothing like that. My son thinks I am pretty smart with all this and I could see him smiling. He might have thought dad is getting old and he is never the same.
I went and looked in the manual only to find that the car got no dipstick and can only read the level using the I Drive. Yes, it reads it.
First I thought I am losing my mind and now I feel happy I found the answer.
Basically only one thing I can do in this car, air filter replacement. That is it!
There is no dipstick for oil or transmission fluid.
My Infiniti it was also the same thing, all I can do is air filter replacement and that was not easy at all.
On Infiniti basicaly one srew and 3 mounting pins at the bottom hold the filter assembly. One needs to disconnect the sensor, remove the hose clamp and pull it upward to take the whole filter assembly out and open it up tp change filter. I am now pretty good at it.
Back in 1982 I used to overhaul the engine of my VW beetle 1500. Now I cannot do a thing on these cars. You open up the hood and do this....
Let me play with my boomboxes and that is more fun.
I went and looked in the manual only to find that the car got no dipstick and can only read the level using the I Drive. Yes, it reads it.
First I thought I am losing my mind and now I feel happy I found the answer.
Basically only one thing I can do in this car, air filter replacement. That is it!
There is no dipstick for oil or transmission fluid.
My Infiniti it was also the same thing, all I can do is air filter replacement and that was not easy at all.
On Infiniti basicaly one srew and 3 mounting pins at the bottom hold the filter assembly. One needs to disconnect the sensor, remove the hose clamp and pull it upward to take the whole filter assembly out and open it up tp change filter. I am now pretty good at it.
Back in 1982 I used to overhaul the engine of my VW beetle 1500. Now I cannot do a thing on these cars. You open up the hood and do this....
Let me play with my boomboxes and that is more fun.
no more owners working on there cars 
All the way home from the Nor Cal Meet she was saying "if we had Reli's BMW you could carry more radios" and "Did you see how nice that BMW was, he had more radio's in it than you" 