How often do you service your X5?

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Originally Posted by JCL

I do services generally according to the maintenance lights, usually slightly earlier. Lights have been calling for service at 28,000 km (up from 25,000 km baseline due to our usage characteristics) but I do it at 20-24k, or 2 years, whichever comes first.

Wow - that's a long interval...and you say 'no sludge'? I suppose this is okay if you only intend to keep the vehicle until it's turned over 100K kms or so then trade it in, but if you plan on keeping it for longer (200K or more), personally I would be inclined to increase the service intervals to half that at a maximum. As has already been mentioned several times, we generally use our vehicles in a harsh driving environment, so a more frequent transfusion of essential blood would/should be of benefit, especially so given the weight of our vehicles and how hard they get 'pushed' to move that mass.