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Service Advice

2003 - 2009, roadster, coupe, facelift
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flight174z
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Service Advice

Post by flight174z » Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:02 pm

Hi All

Just wanted to get some advice on my next service - history is as below:

23/9/09 - 13,254 - Oil Service (specialist)
24/10/11 - 23,476 - Inspection 1 (specialist)
8/8/13 - 41,409 - Oil Service (independent)
6/6/14 - 43,707 - Oil Service (independent)
14/9/16 - 53,542 - Oil Service (independent)
27/2/17 - 58,001 - Inspection 2 (specialist)

My car is a 57 plate e86.

Car is sitting on 68,500 miles now and showing 7,500 miles until next service is due (oil service). I need to get it MOT'd in the next month and was thinking it made sense for a service now too after ~10,000 miles/18 months. I took it to a BMW specialist for the Inspection 2 and got the brake fluid changed at the same time but wasn't that impressed in the end with the garage, therefore this time I am thinking of taking it to a generic "big" garage and just getting a full service done. I guess I could probably get away with an "interim" service or no service at all but I'm not that comfortable with leaving it "un-serviced" for a long period of time.

Please let me know your thoughts
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