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Old 03-22-2011, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ard View Post
There is a very specific reason they allow 'non-bmw oil' for top off: they would be required to provide free oil under moss-magnussen...even though they spec one BMW oil, they must allow for non-BMW oil for needed top offs outside of their (way too infrequent) CBS services.

Since they pay for CBS service, under MM they can require only BMW oil for that service- and they do.
But they also suggest additional (mid cycle) oil changes for 'severe service', and they don't pay for that oil. So they can't require the use of a specific (BMW) oil, using your point re Moss-Magnuson.

My suggestion was that the interpretation was narrow, not BMW's document itself. It was fairly open IMO.
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