Service intervals change as you drive?
02-21-2007, 09:14 PM
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Looking in the iDrive service menu, I specifically remember seeing the ridiculous recommended 24,000km oil change. After doing a few runs of 130mph+ in the past 2 weeks, I looked in iDrive last night, and the service oil change had changed to 9000km. So I'm wondering, is the service interval menu dynamic (changing)?
02-21-2007, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by blinkme_210' post='394203' date='Feb 22 2007, 01:14 AM
Looking in the iDrive service menu, I specifically remember seeing the ridiculous recommended 24,000km oil change. After doing a few runs of 130mph+ in the past 2 weeks, I looked in iDrive last night, and the service oil change had changed to 9000km. So I'm wondering, is the service interval menu dynamic (changing)?
02-21-2007, 09:40 PM
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Ya its dynamic.. but went down that much??? you must have really driven it hard!
02-22-2007, 03:55 AM
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Yep, it is DYNAMIC. My routine driving has it change at a consistant 1000 miles per 1000 miles driven. BUT, when I did about 400 miles of Tail of the Dragon and related roads keeping revs up in the 4000-6500 range the CBS accelerated - brakes too on those twisties - same with autoxing. Mine was not so dramatic but maybe cause I had more miles clocked on that cycle.
02-24-2007, 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by EBMCS03' post='394210' date='Feb 21 2007, 11:40 PM
Ya its dynamic.. but went down that much??? you must have really driven it hard!
02-24-2007, 07:28 AM
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The synthetics are weird like that, they change as the temp changes.
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So I took another look in the iDrive service menu and actually clicked on the oil change icon. I realized that the Km/Miles posted refers to "How many Km/Miles remaining until next oil change." Upon reading that, it made more sense. Before I kept thinking the distance posted referred to "you should change oil at XXXX Km/Mile" 
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BMW oil service system is based on the fuel consumption/flow.
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