Oil service, what oil ??

[dave1]

that would be good as i care for my car myself :thumbs:

[bryce]

Do you service it entirely yourself Dave?

[E46ACS]

that would be good as i care for my car myself :thumbs:

I'll have a rumage tomorrow!!! :wink:

[dave1]

Do you service it entirely yourself Dave?

yes mate its all pretty straight forward.and if i do it myself i A. know it has been done and B. know it's been done properly

mind you i did get a friend in the trade who has an mot station to do the rear tca bushes so he could swear and cut his knuckles while i point and laugh but then i discovered they were brand new! but it still felt like it had rear wheel steering! limiter kit cured that. :thumbs:

[dave1]

and put it this way i worked in a ford dealer's when i was a kid we had a police contract, everytime we had a customer's cosworth in there would be one of us in that and another teccie in a police car flat out up and down the bypass pretending to be in pursuit blue's and two's and everything thought it was funny as at the time!

kind of put's you off leaving your car anywhere!

[bryce]

Nice one. I service all our vehicles that are outside of warranty. its not exactly rocket science, and like you say - you know its being done right.

Ive got one of them crab steer CSLs, need to get myself a LK or uprated bushes.

[dave1]

my car feel's so planted at the rear now it unreal,felt that bad before i thought the bushes would fall out when we took the bolt out! and they were brand spankin :whistle:

[Mark CSL]

bryce86
Get polly bushes £40 i think bargin
i have them on my CSL i shall show you on sunday :thumbs:

[SMD]

Limiter kit defo the best mod for the CSL! :smokin:

[bryce]

I got new (BMW) bushes a few hundred miles ago, and its not made one bit of difference.

Its top of the 'To Do'.

[dave1]

bushes won't you need the limiter kit

[Windowlicker]

I would love to do all the relevant work on mine myself, have not been to a dealers for many years, as the concept of paying someone to do half a job, and dent/scratch my car or if i am really lucky both. and still be charged for the ensuing stress and hassle put me off years ago.
As i have found out though , with this type of car , history is everything come resale time, so i feel obliged to pay through the nose once again for the stress involved with letting someone else loose on my car , for simple or more complex jobs.
I would like to think the level of service would be better at aBMW dealer ,and the techs are more clued up and have some pride in their work, hope i am not proven wrong on this one.

Dave, are you not concerned about the service history on your car lapsing ??

[dave1]

you must be kidding bmw are the worst i have come across there so called teccie's swap parts to try and fix a fault when it does,nt fix it you get sorry mate special order you have to pay for that!!!

it makes me laugh people put so much store by fsh and these,s day's that means 10 or 20k in between services's and they dont change half of it

im not selling my car so not worried about fsh i just keep all the bills ie so many ltrs of 10/60 every 5k plus whatever else i buy

if i had to pay £700 for a service or £500 for an alternator id be ill for a week :bigcry:

[glendog74]

if i had to pay £700 for a service or £500 for an alternator id be ill for a week :bigcry:

Yeah... :bigcry: :smt108 :bigcry:

[2bar boost]

Dave your dealers are cheap, my local one is £120ph + Vat :smt063

Think i will probably use BM sport as my inspection II is due in 6k :-D