Get rid
of the notorious B58 oil filter disintegration problem forevermore with
the MMR Performance Oil Filter. By replacing the factory paper filter
element with MMR’s advanced high-flow, high-filtration stainless steel
filter unit, you will protect your engine from the big bills (and
potentially worse) caused by the OE filter’s collapse failure.
The oil filters on BMW’s B58 & B57 3.0 6-cylinder engines (both
petrol and diesel) suffer from a well-documented quality problem with
the factory paper-element oil filter. At service time, when removal of
the filter is attempted, the bottom section frequently breaks away from
the disintegrated filtration material. This leaves the broken base stuck
in the oil filter housing and an expensive removal/replacement job to
extract the remains and fit a new housing. Such is the problem that
there’s even an official BMW technical bulletin to warn their dealers of
this.
The
MMR replacement Oil Filter is a pretty special replacement filter. It
fixes this annoying problem once and for all. The MMR Oil Filter element
is made from a pleated high-flow stainless steel micronic filter cloth –
a medical grade material guaranteed to filter out oil contamination
right down to 20 Microns, ensuring far better protection than
paper-based filters can achieve.
As
well as this exceptional filtration, the filter material allows for
five times the flow of comparable paper oil filters. Its design provides
consistent filtering across entire filter surface.
The
failure of the factory oil filter generally just leads to a large bill
to extract the damaged remnants. However, more worryingly, it has
occasionally been known to lead to broken pieces of filter media running
through the small oilways and orifices of the engine’s lubrication
system, risking blocking the oil running round the bearings and VANOS
system and causing much greater mechanical damage before it is caught.
The MMR Oil Filter is a reusable unit which can
be used over and over again. As long as it is thoroughly cleaned at each
oil change, it will last the lifetime of the vehicle and keep on
protecting the engine just as it did when new. However, proper cleaning
is not necessarily a DIY job, as it requires the use of a suitable
solvent to break down the old oil, and cleaning from the inside out with
compressed air to remove any
risk of debris remaining. If you have any doubts about this, we
recommend as best-practice to change filter with every oil-change. See
cleaning information below.
Works with factory filter housing or ideally the new MMR Billet Filter Housing MMR17-1501.
