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Originally Posted by trader4
Nobody forced BMW to offer a no cost maintenance program. That they chose to offer it, doesn't mean that somehow gives them the right to spec maintenance intervals that are irresponsible. For the record, I agree that I would change the oil at 7500 to 10K. But I don't buy that the gaskets all start leaking, the timing chain is kaput, etc on a car at 100K from changing the oil at 15K either.
Regarding the driving experience, that doesn't excuse building crappy engines that need a new timing chain at 100K miles. For the record, those Honda CRVs all went 200K with the original CV boots too. The way those, the air intake bellows, various seals, gaskets all fail reapeatedly on these cars, it sure sounds to me like BMW has some serious problems, probably with quality control of suppliers. It's almost like the supplier must be the brother in law of the CEO. But feel free to make excuses for them so instead of fixing those issues, they can just
keep doing the same thing and you all can have the wonderful BMW experience.
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People that buys a new car normally do not keep the car beyond the warranty period. The free maintenance program is just a marketing ploy by all the car makers to attract car buyers. If you change the oil every 3,000 miles or 7500 mile you would have change the oil 5 times or twice before the free 15,000 miles maintenance kicks in. BMW is just hoping the car last beyond their warranty period with their free maintenance. After that they don't give a rat ass about the car since it will be "Out of warranty". Try asking a BMW dealer to do a transmission fluid change and they will tell you the ATF is "Life Time". You couldn't even pay them to do a ATF change.
It's call plan obsolescence. BMW make their money from selling new cars. If cars last as long as refrigerators all the car maker will only be building cars to replace cars that are no longer operational. Do you buy a new refrig every 5 years? We have a Sub Zero for the last 15 years and if it broke down we will get it fix since they offer a 10 years warranty on their frig.