My advice is to change your oil at least once a year regardless of what the computer tells you to do. It is the most cost effective form of maintenance available. Ask anyone who has a BMW or for that matter any other make of vehicle with 200k + miles on the original motor. I think you'll find that frequent (though I think every 3k miles is excessive) oil changes add trouble free miles to your vehicle.Mystikal said:I bought a 1.5 year old 323, and it had 20k miles on it at the time. I guess I'm right in the brackets that you posted.
There was a record of at least 2 oil changes in the maintenance book. :dunno:
I don't have much intention of changing the oil before the OBC tells me to, though. :dunno:
Once a year will be done, the car is driven more than 20k km's a year now that I have it.Franco Karzag said:
My advice is to change your oil at least once a year regardless of what the computer tells you to do. It is the most cost effective form of maintenance available. Ask anyone who has a BMW or for that matter any other make of vehicle with 200k + miles on the original motor. I think you'll find that frequent (though I think every 3k miles is excessive) oil changes add trouble free miles to your vehicle.
Franco
Here are the details on the oil extractor:scottn2retro said:
There are Do-It-Yourself oil extractors (Chipster has one) that apparently are easy to use.
Although this makes no sensescottn2retro said:I think many of the people on this forum with the newer cars change the oil more frequently than the indicator lights tell them to. It's a matter of philosophy and some guys will change the oil every 3K miles no matter what the new service intervals are (and driving habits for the track guys may play into it as well).
I don't think there is any one correct approach that will appropriate for all car owners. If you ask a dozen people, you'll get half a dozen oil change strategies. Wait for the service lights will certainly be one of them.Although this makes no sense I am happy to have some of my retirement insurance in several oil companies.
Are BMW owners really smarter than the engineers that designed the cars that they drive?