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Maintenance
The BMW Maintenance System
The BMW Maintenance System is
designed to uphold the car's road
safety and operating reliability and to
save the customer as much money as
possible.
Please remember that regular mainte-
nance is not only essential to ensure
that your car remains safe, but also to
enhance its resale value.
Service interval indicator
Whereas conventional systems call for
maintenance when a fixed distance in
kilometres/miles has been covered, the
BMW Maintenance System has for
many years now taken the car's operat-
ing conditions into account as well,
since one kilometre is by no means the
same as another. 100,000 kilometres
completed exclusively in the form of
short journeys cannot be equated with
100,000 kilometres made up of long
main-road journeys only.
The maintenance routines based on
actual use of the car consist of the Oil
Service and Inspections I and II.
The principle of determining mainte-
nance intervals according to load effec-
tively covers all the operating condi-
tions to which the car is likely to be
exposed. Cars used very infrequently
far less than 10,000 km (approx.
6000 miles) per year should nonethe-
less have their engine oil changed at
least every 2 years, since engine oil
ages regardless of the loads imposed
on it.
Service Booklet
For further information on maintenance
points and the scope of maintenance
work, please refer to the car's Service
Booklet.
Depending on the circumstances in
which the car is used, it may be worth-
while to inspect it for damage caused
by stones flung up from the road, in
order to guard against subsequent cor-
rosion.
Have maintenance and repair
work carried out by BMW Service.
Make sure that maintenance work is
confirmed in the Service Booklet after it
has been carried out. These entries are
evidence that your car has been
serviced regularly and correctly, and
are also the basis of any warranty
claims.
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