Originally Posted by m5james

I run a BMW repair place here in Boise, am I mince meat here? I said in my previous post, you are correct...key words being "can" and "no previous". So for those w/ no problems now, lower mileage, etc....do it now or suffer later. I can't say it enough...NO fluid is lifetime and I've had to clean some pretty nasty stuff of the magnets in the pan, which NEVER changing the fluid will just continue move around in the system and make worse if the magnets aren't holding whatever else is floating around.