London Oil Service - Best Prices?

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mikedav

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Oil Service time for me...anyone got a line on a good price / dealer for London?

Battersea BMW - £246inc VAT ... she tried to argue a Z4M is not an M car and essentially the same as an E46 M3. 'M car is top of range, servicing very bad, Z4 not M car, different'. Riiight.

Berry Chiswick - £225 inc VAT.

Oil cost is coming in at £87, how much oil do we need for a full change? 4 litres at Opie is coming in at £44.
 
If you do the oil change yourself, then you should buy the 'car service pack' from Opie, as you get 8 litres (and a filter) for only £66.
Either use the supplied filter or dump it and buy one from BMW.

Don't forget to log-in to the Opie website to get your member discount though (assuming you've registered).

Other than the oil service (with warm engine), the only other things they do in an 'oil service' is check disc & pad thickness (they charge you for checking), replace cabin microfilter, and check & adjust handbrake.

Don't know how much of a job the cabin filter replacement is though (usually behind glovebox or behind the panel above the pedals), but that could account for some of the extra £130 they charge over the cost of the oil (which they get cheaper than we do anyway).
 
Thanks for that, sticking to main dealer for that stamp come resale...combined with the extended warranty I have to really.

In the past I have supplied my own oil to chip the price a bit, £66 for 8 litres looks very good...is the filter OEM? Even if not, at those prices I could just chuck it
 
It is not oem filter. I did supply my own oil to the dealer as well, for both the X5 and the M and it saved a load.
 
mikedav said:
In the past I have supplied my own oil to chip the price a bit, £66 for 8 litres looks very good...is the filter OEM? Even if not, at those prices I could just chuck it
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Mine gets interim oil services too (one due about now actually), but I always use a genuine filter so that BMW can't blame me for introducing anything foreign.

Scheduled ones are done at the dealer.

The filter is some generic one - don't know what quality as I don't even take it out of the box. Don't forget to factor in the cost of delivery too which might mean there's only a small saving over using BMW supplied oil (although there's a code for free shipping until 17-Jan - FREESHIPJAN).

At least next year some of us will be able to take advantage of the 4-plus scheme - although there is some discount on parts if you're a BMW Car Club member IIRC.
 
On my oil delivery with the 25% discount it worked at about half the dealer price.
 
Just had another price, Thames Ditton want £250 inc VAT. Oil is apparently £97+VAT of that...and they need 5.5 litres. Oddly, he said they now use Shell oil, not the Castrol TWS? What's with that?

So Opie makes sense, £66 with 2.5 litres left over and £47 knocked off the total bill.

pvr, do you have a code for 25% off? If not FREESHIPJAN will do, thanks guys
 
Supposedly there a new Shell oil call 'Shell Helix Ultra Racing' that conforms to the spec for our engines - and is what is used in Ferarri's.
However I can't find any reference to a 'Helix Ultra Racing' on the Shell website, only a 'Helix Ultra' or 'Helix Ultra Extra' - neither of which are 10w60 oils.

If you're supplying your own it won't matter, but if you're not I'd specifically ask for printed proof that the Shell product is officially replacing the Castrol product and that there'll be no detrimental effect on your warranty.
 
Vines Guildford want £235 for an Oil Service (45,000 miles) and £300 for front suspension bushes.

They won't be doing the bushes and it's not really paying an extra £100 over indie for the stamp is it (with a 2003 car)?

My mate at work has an oil siphon - is it worth trying myself? Won't have a stamp at all then :?
 
mmm-five said:
Supposedly there a new Shell oil call 'Shell Helix Ultra Racing' that conforms to the spec for our engines - and is what is used in Ferarri's.
However I can't find any reference to a 'Helix Ultra Racing' on the Shell website, only a 'Helix Ultra' or 'Helix Ultra Extra' - neither of which are 10w60 oils.

If you're supplying your own it won't matter, but if you're not I'd specifically ask for printed proof that the Shell product is officially replacing the Castrol product and that there'll be no detrimental effect on your warranty.
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http://www.epc.shell.com/Docs/GPCDOC_GTDS_New_GTDS_Helix_Ultra_Racing_10W-60.pdf
 
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