Extend Full Maintenance or Not
 

I have a 3.0 2009 X5 with 43,000 miles and an opportunity to extend the full BMW maintenance to 100K miles or 2/2015 for $2295. My initial thoughts are to extend as it has work for me in the past. Any thoughts are welcomed.

That's a good price. Keep in mind that you'll need a brake job around 70k miles or so. That alone will cost you more than $2295 through your dealer.
I purchased the full maintenance on mine for $2699. I was expecting it to be more and wasn't going to get it. When they told me that price, I gladly paid cash for it.
My thought was, my X5 has 37k miles on it. If I keep it for another 63K miles, I'll easily spend more than $3000 on maintenance.

$2300 for a brake job? Does that include solid gold calipers? :bustingup

I should have never paid for the extended maintennance, live and learn. I'll never do it again.

Tire Rack has Akebono pads for about $75 / axle plus a wear sensor is about $40 per axle. Stock rotors $160 front & $90 rear. A decent indie shop would do these for $300 labor per axle I would guess. So $1500 for a brake job. That leaves a bunch of money for four oil changes and a cabin air filter.

Ditch the "free" maintennance and get an extended warranty. You will likely need it.

Depends on how many miles you drive per year. You may be able to squeeze two brake jobs out if you are driving 15k miles a year.

Plus wipers, fluids, and oil changes, it can add up.

OTOH, 31K mostly highway miles on my 04, just had it in for oil service at my indy. He said I have 70% left on the original pads and rotors are perfect.

Did you miss the part where I said through the dealer? Yes it will cost that much or more. Not everyone has access to a reliable indie shop.

Go for it i did it whit my 08 and i have peace of mind.

Priceless....

Thanks to all who have replied, I will most likely purchase the plan as I was figuring two brake services and oil changes at a minimum as I am driving about 22K miles a year.

Thanks again for the input

I just picked up extended maint. And Premium warranty both are 6 years or 100k miles.

Total for both was $4,950.00. My car was just at 48k miles when I got it.

There is no way I would have kept this car without both.