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<blockquote data-quote="syamsulstar" data-source="post: 736242" data-attributes="member: 44984"><p>Hi Teighlour,</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(40,40,40)">1. As we both are under the BSRI package, how come his and mine are different. Mine at 12-13K km interval while his is 10k km interval? The SC said that it depends on our driving conditions. My friend might have stuck in traffic most of the time? I dont find this a valid reasons. I got a 3 years BSRI but his is 2 years BSRI (he bought the car nearly a year old and at 7k km mileage).</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)"> - I kind of agree with your SC on this. Based on my experience, the idrive counter adapts to my driving condition. For example, when I pick up the car after service, I have 12000KM until the next one. But after driving the car for only 3000KM, the idrive says there is only 6000KM until the next service, which means that the service mileage has reduced from 12000KM </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">to 9000KM.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">To give you some background, mine is a 2015 528i, and I drive a little over 100KM per day with really heavy traffic.</span></p><p></p><p>2. Can we dont service our car for so long? More than a year? From my 12,000km service (1st service) and the 2nd service at 24,500km, I took 13 months to reach that mileage. I find it is too long to drag not servicing the car. Do you all think so?</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">- I definitely agree with you, but again I think that it might be OK if the car is underutilized. It also depends on the type of the car I think. My wife has a 2011 323i, and the car has only clocked in about 21000KM. For this car, we strictly follow the idrive counter, which is once every 12-15 months. The car hasn't caused any problems so far thankfully.</span></p><p></p><p>3. Have any of you guys do service in between the free service under the BSRI package? Like now my mileage is 22,500km, until i wait for the next BSRI service at let's say 22,500 + 13,000 = 35,500km, I service at 28,000km under my own expense?</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">- I currently do this for my car. My BSRI seems to require service every 9000KM based on my driving conditions, and I do one in between (4500KM) at my own expense. Here is my service history:</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">28/3 - 4.5K</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">5/5 - 9K (BSRI)</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">13/6 - 13.5K</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">3/8 - 18K (BSRI)</span></p><p></p><p>What i feel is that we are dragging too long to service our car. AB said our cars are built and designed to last that long. I find that because of the BSRI to attract buyers, they are prolonging the service and stretching it the the max. Maybe when the car is still new, there might not be any problems, but later when it ages, thats when the problem comes in because we didnt take care of our car when it was new.</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">- I couldn't agree more with you on this. After all they are running a business.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">On a separate matter (sorry to hijack your thread), I would like to ask everyone here if any of you has seen the same price difference between BSRI-claimed oil and non-BSRI claimed as shown here:</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">BSRI-claimed:</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5619/21246748592_033bbf1fc7_o.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">Non-BSRI claimed:</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/761/21069341078_c79b597246_o.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">Thanks.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="syamsulstar, post: 736242, member: 44984"] Hi Teighlour, [COLOR=rgb(40,40,40)]1. As we both are under the BSRI package, how come his and mine are different. Mine at 12-13K km interval while his is 10k km interval? The SC said that it depends on our driving conditions. My friend might have stuck in traffic most of the time? I dont find this a valid reasons. I got a 3 years BSRI but his is 2 years BSRI (he bought the car nearly a year old and at 7k km mileage).[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)] - I kind of agree with your SC on this. Based on my experience, the idrive counter adapts to my driving condition. For example, when I pick up the car after service, I have 12000KM until the next one. But after driving the car for only 3000KM, the idrive says there is only 6000KM until the next service, which means that the service mileage has reduced from 12000KM [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]to 9000KM.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]To give you some background, mine is a 2015 528i, and I drive a little over 100KM per day with really heavy traffic.[/COLOR] 2. Can we dont service our car for so long? More than a year? From my 12,000km service (1st service) and the 2nd service at 24,500km, I took 13 months to reach that mileage. I find it is too long to drag not servicing the car. Do you all think so? [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]- I definitely agree with you, but again I think that it might be OK if the car is underutilized. It also depends on the type of the car I think. My wife has a 2011 323i, and the car has only clocked in about 21000KM. For this car, we strictly follow the idrive counter, which is once every 12-15 months. The car hasn't caused any problems so far thankfully.[/COLOR] 3. Have any of you guys do service in between the free service under the BSRI package? Like now my mileage is 22,500km, until i wait for the next BSRI service at let's say 22,500 + 13,000 = 35,500km, I service at 28,000km under my own expense? [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]- I currently do this for my car. My BSRI seems to require service every 9000KM based on my driving conditions, and I do one in between (4500KM) at my own expense. Here is my service history:[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]28/3 - 4.5K[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]5/5 - 9K (BSRI)[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]13/6 - 13.5K[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]3/8 - 18K (BSRI)[/COLOR] What i feel is that we are dragging too long to service our car. AB said our cars are built and designed to last that long. I find that because of the BSRI to attract buyers, they are prolonging the service and stretching it the the max. Maybe when the car is still new, there might not be any problems, but later when it ages, thats when the problem comes in because we didnt take care of our car when it was new. [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]- I couldn't agree more with you on this. After all they are running a business.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]On a separate matter (sorry to hijack your thread), I would like to ask everyone here if any of you has seen the same price difference between BSRI-claimed oil and non-BSRI claimed as shown here:[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]BSRI-claimed:[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)][IMG]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5619/21246748592_033bbf1fc7_o.png[/IMG][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]Non-BSRI claimed:[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)][IMG]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/761/21069341078_c79b597246_o.png[/IMG][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0,0,255)]Thanks.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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