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monkeyhanger
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Cherry wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:46 pm
My BMW was put on a 2 year or 20k service plan oil change (long life). Why would I need to change oil if I had covered less than half of this in 3 years?
It's 2 years or 20k miles, whichever is lower, not choose 20k miles and potentially give it 10 years between oil changes at 2k miles a year.

Long life oil isn't providing optimal protection indefinitely if you don't do the miles, it degrades with time and miles . If you do a lot of small journeys rather than a few big ones for your 2k miles pa, you'll be interrupting a lot of DPF regen attempts. Diesel being injected into the DPF system to burn and raise temp quickly ends up in the sump, diluting the oil. If I was in the market for an older model, I'd avoid a car with a dubious service history like the plague.

With a £20 VED and claiming 65mpg, I'm presuming you have a 2.0 lump probably around the 185-190ps mark. It would literally cost you £50 a year to change your oil (5.7l), filter and sump plug (assuming it's a 1 use plastic one most German cars have now).
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Cherry
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Post by Cherry »

monkeyhanger wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 9:04 pm
Cherry wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:46 pm
My BMW was put on a 2 year or 20k service plan oil change (long life). Why would I need to change oil if I had covered less than half of this in 3 years?
It's 2 years or 20k miles, whichever is lower, not choose 20k miles and potentially give it 10 years between oil changes at 2k miles a year.

Long life oil isn't providing optimal protection indefinitely if you don't do the miles, it degrades with time and miles . If you do a lot of small journeys rather than a few big ones for your 2k miles pa, you'll be interrupting a lot of DPF regen attempts. Diesel being injected into the DPF system to burn and raise temp quickly ends up in the sump, diluting the oil. If I was in the market for an older model, I'd avoid a car with a dubious service history like the plague.

With a £20 VED and claiming 65mpg, I'm presuming you have a 2.0 lump probably around the 185-190ps mark. It would literally cost you £50 a year to change your oil (5.7l), filter and sump plug (assuming it's a 1 use plastic one most German cars have now).
Correct an Efficient Dynamics auto diesel model (as Gordon Brown advised). I purchased without seeing or test driving. Negotiated the price, paid the main dealer and told him to deliver it to me. Cars are of little interest! 35 miles school runs x2 (70 miles a day) in the early days prior to lift share in an aging MX3 auto giving 28mpg persuaded me to upgrade. I more than halved my fuel bills. Now school runs stopped I am < 2k miles a year. Sold wife's Golf, needed to replace (did not expect a 4-5 month wait for ID.3). EV was the choice as congestion zones in London, Birmingham and other cities to follow and ID.3 was cheapest differential between ICE and EV and Golf size (look at Niro - £7k to £10k difference between ICE an EV and no front sensors on many models. Zero payback even for 8,000 miles a year!).

I am too useless to change oil myself!

The car will be as good as written off in a couple of years. Is it going to be worth a few thousand tops.
How does one check service history if it's on BMW computer? The private buyer who purchased the Golf plugged in a laptop with VAGCOM and was given receipts for EGR and Mechantronic warranty. He did not need the service history. He did notice low pressure for air-con (yet another failure in the car), did not care and purchased. Wife misses it. I am glad it's gone as so many issues and local VW garage would not even quote for mechantronic. Ended up calling recovery to take me 100 miles to a specialist garage who replaced for £750 and 2 year warranty compared to £2k VW quote.
9 Sep 21 Ordered ID.3 Family Pro, Stonewashed Blue & East Derry
13 Sep 21 PCP approved. VW No: 3131xxxx
24 Sep 21 Temp build wk43, conf' 46
22 Nov 21 Conf' build wk 49
10 Jan 22 Code 38 Awaiting ship-release (wk48 build)
01 March preferred collection
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