Oil change

[Northotheborder]

Hi, enter your reg number and mileage on that page, it will then ask you to confirm the vehicle model. Once that's done you have a list of service options and costs, you can pick and mix what you want done, the standard oil change is £136 (for my model) + they do the standard scope for a further £19. My E89 has the idrive and you can check the status of the oil, brakes etc and the mileage left before they are due for servicing / replacement. Gives you a good indication of what might need doing. I change the engine oil once a year in my cars and I only drive about 7000 per year, felt it paid dividends with my Jaguars, so plan to do the same with the Z4.

[Nanu]

Nope, done all that and no prices only details of what each service consists of and thats it or refers me to find my local dealer

[Nanu]

Final update.

Just had a response from BMW UK and in a nutshell *Tough*

The official line is the services are based on the date of manufacture end of.

Any chance of a goodwill gesture for a loyal customer. *No chance*

Result will get the job done at non BMW dealers supplying the parts for a fraction of the cost with evidence in writing from BMW that it will not effect the warranty .

With no intention of selling the beast then future resale prices are of no interest.

[Angie4m]

It's definitely an oil service? Although I'm sure on your E89 it's a 3 year brake fluid. Only because on mines my brake fluid was needed in June when the car was built and the oil was needed in October when registered. And the vehicle inspections that are due every 4 years (that's a joke in itself) is also due every 4 years in June.

But I noticed when checking my car recently that the dealer I last used for my service put both the oil and brake fluid changes in line with each other, not at my request but the last car I bought from that dealer that serviced the oil and brakes were every 2 years from date of registration but cars bought from other dealers have followed brake fluid on date of build and oil in month of registration.

It could be that some dealers update these dates when doing the pre delivery checks and others don't.

[Nanu]

Checked 5 local BMW garages for price of an oil change service and the cheapest was £195 or £65 if I supplied all parts.

Bought 2x 4 litres of Castrol Edge 0W30 Long Life for £68 (Recommended by the dealership and only need 6.5 litres so will have enough left for a later top up), oil filter £7 and £9 for the micro filter all from local EurocarParts who matched the online prices.

Reasonable saving me thinks

[Nanu]

Garage did not fit the micro filter were going to charge £16 so did it myself in about 15 minutes. Just wondering should the air filter be changed also not just the cabin air filter?