dnd2984

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OK my buddy called me and said his car said it needed one qt of oil. It came up on the Navi screen. His car has 11k miles and not do for 1st service yet.

I know couple of you have the 335i coupe. Have any of you had that issue yet.

cltypeSLOW

Crazy Bimmer

No because I dont wait 15k mile intervals to change the oil.

Also thats normal, just tell him to top it off.

majin ssj eric

BMW won't change your oil under the free maintenance program if you try to do it before the car says its time, right?

Crazy Bimmer

At 11k miles they will most likely do it early for you if you ask.

My dealer does at least.

dnd2984

iTrader: (6)

He picked up a qt of Mobil1 5w30 and jsut added it in.

zeroday

mine was a quart low at 6500 miles. i notice the car burns more oil the more i drive like a maniac. normal for this car from what i hear.

ludachrisvt

iTrader: (2)

blow by ... its normal for people that rev high on a consistent basis. Especially in boosted cars. I learned the hardway in my civic.

Acuracy

Yea +1

I changed my oil first at my cost at 1200 then at 5000 and the dealer just changed it at 10000 even though the car still didnt say iit nneeded it. I didnt reset the service meter also.

ohh mine needed alittle top off at 8K, totally normal

godfather2

dnd2984, for a second there i thought YOU had a 335

bigman

Exactly, i installed a catch-can on my stroker LS1 for that very reason.

Infamous425

the dealer will top it off for free

dnd2984

iTrader: (6)

No man I will keep my TL till it dies man. Dont see the point in a new car just yet.

Costco

:ibhighmileage335iswithblownringlands:

Just top it off and don't worry about it. Tell him to do his own oil changes at 4k-7k then let the dealer do it again for free every 14k or whatever. 15k OCI on a boosted car.... surprising.

smooth CL-in

its possble if he drives it hard. My buddy has one modded, i'll ask him. my other buddy has an m5 he adds a 1qt regularly.

Brandon24pdx

"Retarded" was what came to mind.

mclarenf3387

BMWs service is condition based, not a set mileage. If you drive like a complete maniac most of the time you may be due for a service at 7k miles. Cars that are driven very gently may not need a service until 19k even.

Plus I think BMW knows a bit more about engines than 99.9% of those posting on this forum.

Costco

Whoops. I had no idea, I just made an assumption from the first few posts in this thread (335i owners) that they had a scheduled maintenance/OCI.

And I would hope they more about engines than 99.9% of AZ members.

SodaLuvr

mclarenf3387

Condition Based Service (CBS) was introduced in the E65 7 series (2002 on) and is now in all the cars except the X3 and Z4. Service all depends on the driver. I've done oil changes as low as 3k miles on a CBS equiped vehicle and I've done some at 20k miles. Its actually all based off the fuel injector signal. Essentially the worse mileage you get, the quicker you will need an oil service.

SodaLuvr

Does the X3 and Z4 go by the one-year/15k schedule then?

mclarenf3387

They actually use the injector signal as well for the oil services. They seem to vary a lot less though and generally come in roughly around 15k miles.

6mtV6

Oil change is covered only when your car tells you or once a year.

SodaLuvr

Do they still cover it once-a-year?

I'm curious if that policy has changed because the service interval indicator usually sets the date for two years when you reset it.

Shadzilla

I've had to add a quart on two separate occasions, and my car hasn't hit the 15k mark yet. Also, when I took my car in for an unrelated issue, they would not perform the first service (I think I had around 11k miles at that point).

SodaLuvr

I'm not sure what's the big deal about oil consumption anyway.

My Saturn burned 1 qt every 3k when it first rolled off the assembly line, and to this day it still burns 1qt every 2-3k after 111k.

Oil consumption does not affect engine longevity anyway. We have one guy on our Saturn forum who has 522,000+ miles on his car without a rebuild and he burns one quart every 200 miles.

6mtV6

The once-a-year isn't based on the service interval indicator. They don't reset the service interval indicator if you go in for the once-a-year. So in some cases, you get the once-a-year and than a few months or thousand miles later the car might tell you it's time for an oil change. This only happens if you drive very little miles in a year.