08-10-2018, 08:39 AM | #1 |
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Do we get 3 oil changes in our covered maintenance?
I bought my LCI in Sept, 2017, and had the first oil change in January 2018 at the 1200 mile mark. Now, as i understand it, we get 3 free oil changes done annually. Question is, do i need to get the first one in Sept even though mileage driven is low in the last year, and a yearly change would mean having the dealer change it in January instead.. However, if I do January each year, I'll only get 2 changes within the covered 3 year free maintenance since purchase.
How do we resolve this apparent paradox?
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So then, for low mileage drivers, we only get 2 covered oil changes?
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08-10-2018, 09:52 AM | #5 |
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WRONG! For lower mileage drivers, a year time frame is also used.. the question is, does it go from the in service date, or from the run-in oil change date, usually done a few months later for lower mileage folks.
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08-10-2018, 09:53 AM | #6 |
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Sorry. I thought you meant 3 oil changes a year based on my reading of your thread title!
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08-10-2018, 09:56 AM | #7 |
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Yea, I see how that can be misread, so I modified the thread title for clarification.
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08-10-2018, 11:18 AM | #9 |
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I got my first oil change at break-in (four months into ownsership). The second was at the one year mark from purchase (and only about eight months or 3k miles since the break-in change).
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08-10-2018, 11:57 AM | #10 |
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For low mileage drivers it is one year to the day from the last oil change. I was at my dealer the other day discussing this. For high mileage drivers I don't know. I am a low mileage driver.
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08-10-2018, 01:22 PM | #11 |
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That is not true on my M2. When they did the 1200 mile service they did not change the next due date. Mine is due on year from delivery. My last BMW was due one year from production date. Not sure when they changed the due date for oil change.
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08-10-2018, 01:28 PM | #12 |
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The connected app tells me 10k miles or 1 year from my last oil change, has mileage and date timer.
Is everyone going by BMW's recommended service interval or doing one in between every 5k miles? |
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08-10-2018, 01:42 PM | #13 |
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I'm opting for in between, a few of my friends have 235's and they also do in between. I just can't fathom not doing an oil change for 8-12 months.
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08-10-2018, 02:27 PM | #14 |
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With full synthetic oil there is no need for a 5K oil change. One year or 10K is fine.
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08-10-2018, 02:29 PM | #15 |
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You solve the paradox by either driving more miles or paying for the 3rd oil change yourself. Personally I pass on the free oil changes, it is a better use of my time to DIY.
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08-10-2018, 02:32 PM | #16 |
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Only exception to this would be if your tracking the car. 2 hours on track kills over 1,200 miles of oil life on the oil life monitor which is a good indication that oil change intervals need to be much shorter when your tracking. Short of that the intervals that BMW establishes work fine. Drove my E90 225,000 miles on those intervals and its still going strong.
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Agreed. Ive done Blackstone oil analysis, and always found that with synthetic, I could go well beyond a year and be fine. For the avg driver that would be about 12k miles, and with this quality of oil, there's absolutely no need to change it more frequently. I think the compulsion to do so comes from the olden days when 3k miles between was the rule. Didnt even have mobile phones in those dark ages. How'd we ever survive.
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This thread is about covered oil changes. I assume your's were not dealer sponsored.
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