I am creating this thread, because it's an issue I experienced that I scoured the internet for, and while I could find posts of people having this issue, no one has ever posted how to FIX IT. So I'm making one, in hopes that it will even help one person that experiences this issue in the future.
As you may or may not be aware, modern bmw's do not have oil dipsticks. When you pull a dipstick out ,oil can drip off of it and make a mess in the engine bay and Ze Germans will just NOT HAVE IT. So you have to rely on an oil sensor to tell you how much oil you actually have in the car. So a little while back I started experiencing this issue where the car was not allowing me to check the oil level. These are the screen I was shown.
Now I was quite certain that my oil level sensor wasn't actually BAD, because if that were the case, I'd definitely be getting some sort of engine service warning that would be quite obvious, so I wasn't sure what the deal was, and was starting to fear I'd have to take in to the dealer to have them recode the computer or some shit like that. It was at this point I reached out to
Dr. Jimbo and I have to give all the credit to him from here on out. I described my issues and his first recommendation was disconnect the battery and clamp the cables together and let everything drain and hopefully it will reset the system. Welp that didnt work. 
He hadn't personally experienced this issue before so I reserved my fate that the car was going to have to go in.
And then today.... I get a message from Jimbo. Someone came in with the exact same car, 2014 M235i, with the exact same issue , they scanned it, found a fault with the oil level sensor, cleared the fault, and all good!!
So today when I got home from work, I connected in with the Carly App, which is great for all sorts of things, did the health check scan, it found...........numerous "issues".....but one of them happened to be this.
So I had the app clear all the issues, and then......BAM!!
GOOD. TO. GO.
It's important to note that like I said since the sensor wasn't actually bad, you're not going to see any codes on an OBD check. But the Carly app scans BMW's computer where EVERYTHING gets logged, and that's where it has to get cleared from. I am so glad to be able to know how much oil is in the car again and thanks again to
Dr. Jimbo for the tips!
I should also note I was unable to reset the oil service indicator as well. I have not yet tried to reset that, but that should also be able to reset now. I am about due for another oil change so I'll try to reset it after that's done.
Now lets see if we can get this thread to trend like my other one where I talked about BMW FB-1 grease that apparently everyone on the internet searches for
As you may or may not be aware, modern bmw's do not have oil dipsticks. When you pull a dipstick out ,oil can drip off of it and make a mess in the engine bay and Ze Germans will just NOT HAVE IT. So you have to rely on an oil sensor to tell you how much oil you actually have in the car. So a little while back I started experiencing this issue where the car was not allowing me to check the oil level. These are the screen I was shown.
Now I was quite certain that my oil level sensor wasn't actually BAD, because if that were the case, I'd definitely be getting some sort of engine service warning that would be quite obvious, so I wasn't sure what the deal was, and was starting to fear I'd have to take in to the dealer to have them recode the computer or some shit like that. It was at this point I reached out to
Dr. Jimbo and I have to give all the credit to him from here on out. I described my issues and his first recommendation was disconnect the battery and clamp the cables together and let everything drain and hopefully it will reset the system. Welp that didnt work. He hadn't personally experienced this issue before so I reserved my fate that the car was going to have to go in. And then today.... I get a message from Jimbo. Someone came in with the exact same car, 2014 M235i, with the exact same issue
, they scanned it, found a fault with the oil level sensor, cleared the fault, and all good!! So today when I got home from work, I connected in with the Carly App, which is great for all sorts of things, did the health check scan, it found...........numerous "issues".....but one of them happened to be this.
So I had the app clear all the issues, and then......BAM!!
GOOD. TO. GO.
It's important to note that like I said since the sensor wasn't actually bad, you're not going to see any codes on an OBD check. But the Carly app scans BMW's computer where EVERYTHING gets logged, and that's where it has to get cleared from. I am so glad to be able to know how much oil is in the car again
and thanks again to
Dr. Jimbo for the tips!I should also note I was unable to reset the oil service indicator as well. I have not yet tried to reset that, but that should also be able to reset now. I am about due for another oil change so I'll try to reset it after that's done.
Now lets see if we can get this thread to trend like my other one where I talked about BMW FB-1 grease that apparently everyone on the internet searches for
