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Originally Posted by ard
I think the "maintenance bogeyman" drives many to an expensive and needless purchase of the 'maintenance plan'.
Look, you are buying a CPO- which means brake pads MUST be over 50%. Minimum. Ideally they were just changed, so maybe 95%. You may in fact never need a brake job the whole time you own the car.
So what your MP buys you is 3 oil changes, a few filters, and a brake flush. Wiper blades. and maybe a handy from the receptionist.
People seem to just lump "car expenses" into one big bad bin, and just don't do the math... They say, "I want it all covered". Fine, but BMW exploits this with the maintenance plan.
A bmw dealer, and BMW posters here, will scare you with "just a brake job alone could be $2 or 3000". Maybe true but you are getting way screwed- nobody should pay that for brakes.
There is nothing magic about BMW brakes at a BMW dealer.
And I focus my discussion on brakes because besides that, there is NOTHING expensive or extensive in the scheduled maintenance....
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I must say, I agree. I'm not afraid of maintenance. At all. I'm afraid of a tranny replacement or something of that sort. Trannies are known to go out at 60k miles on my generation of truck. I feel LUCKY to have made it to 92k without issue. I do have a slight stutter when turning and giving it gas though. This was temporarily "cured" when I changed the transfer case fluid. It's back now.
I have no idea what it is. Torque Converter? Who knows. But I do know that I'd much rather not hang on to the truck to see something break.
It could be the short drive shaft and the splines are skipping. Who knows.