Car is showing fluid only, 2 year regular service interval?
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I got my brake fluid changed by my local trusted Indy. Less than £50 all in.Go to book a brake fluid service, oh nice £68, grand.
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WTF is all this BS?!
Gotta pay for all their fancy showrooms somehow!
i do the same as you regarding, brake fluid. Nearly everything else i just do myself and keep receipts/worksheets of the work I've done
He was also able to reset the idrive to show the new date as well.
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The missus 128Ti is getting towards needing front discs and pads, which I'm going to change myself. Any recommendations on brands to use/avoid? I guess Brembos are top of the tree? Is it even worth considering any of the other pattern parts suppliers?
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I've always gone for Brembo discs and pads. Over the mileage it's a few pence extra and worth it, although if they're available then I hear consistently good reports about ATE ceramic pads and discs. Nearly no brake dust at all from them.
Nothing impractical about an M5, I daily mine and it does everything I want in comfort / luxury. Just because it can go like stink, it doesn’t mean you have to drive it like you stole it all the time, it’s just a pretty fast executive saloon at the end of the day
Fair point. From the outside is sometimes gets perceived these are always driven hard and fast but perhaps that tag is more reserved for the M Lite's but even then they can be driven sensible in normal road conditions.
Not sure i've ever posted in here but had my M2 comp for a little over 3 years, love it.
Looking forward to the tax coming down this year!
So far the dealer i got it from has been fair enough on prices that i've still used them for the fluid changes etc, no weird bolt on prices.
Looking forward to the tax coming down this year!
So far the dealer i got it from has been fair enough on prices that i've still used them for the fluid changes etc, no weird bolt on prices.
Do you take it to Dick Lovett (ha!)?
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Can't speak for any others, but mine came on PS4S
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That's good to hear.
Yup! i thnnk my 2 year one comes in a few months (6 year old)
I work in Swindon, but live in Witney. Unfortunately Dick Lovett refused to pick my car up from work or drop me off/pick me up, even though the Mini garage (also Dick Lovett) offered those services. I now get North Oxford BMW to pick up my car and drop it back to me, which works fine when working from home.
seems like bmw will gimp/deprecate carplay with the new panoramic ix3/neue setup, just supporting single display for output (eg. so no map overview in instrument binnacle)
BMW's new iDrive system still supports CarPlay, but only barely - 9to5Mac
At CES last week, BMW unveiled a major revamp to its iDrive infotainment system, built on the new “BMW Operating...
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wired car-play Started a trial on Tidal streaming to compare against vlc & foobar music players, without the equalizer the latter both have tidal sounds like a boom-box with too much bass,
need to see how much mobile data it will actually use (set it to higher quality),
pity you can't download music from tidal to play back (rights protected) in a 3rd party player
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The M2 is so old it only shows up on the iDrive screen so that doesn't bother me. The Q7 MMI won't allow carplay maps through the HUD but apparently this is an Apple thing?seems like bmw will gimp/deprecate carplay with the new panoramic ix3/neue setup, just supporting single display for output (eg. so no map overview in instrument binnacle)
BMW's new iDrive system still supports CarPlay, but only barely - 9to5Mac
At CES last week, BMW unveiled a major revamp to its iDrive infotainment system, built on the new “BMW Operating...
wired car-play Started a trial on Tidal streaming to compare against vlc & foobar music players, without the equalizer the latter both have tidal sounds like a boom-box with too much bass,
need to see how much mobile data it will actually use (set it to higher quality),
pity you can't download music from tidal to play back (rights protected) in a 3rd party player
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Anyway I'll reserve judgement on this new BMW infotainment setup until I've seen/used it.
Go to book a brake fluid service, oh nice £68, grand.
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WTF is all this BS?!
Don't understand how they get away with this. You literally have to fill everything in and get ready to book, before they show what the true cost is.
No it doesn't. Services are 2, 4, 6, 8 etc. Brake fluid is 3, 5, 7, 9 etc.
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