25k mile oil changes?

• Subject: 25k mile oil changes?
• From: rbrowne@domain.elided
• Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:22:19 -0400 (EDT)

Dan wrote on engine longevity: 
   >My wife's '85' 732i reached 350k miles untouched and I was concerned, so
>did a quicky tear-down in the car, not pulling the hood, or block.  I was
>50-100k miles early as it's been on 'Mobil 1' since new with changes at
>25-30k miles. 

Oil changes at every 25 to 30 thousand miles??? Wow.  And to think most guys
on this list think the SI lights and their approx. 8-10k intervals are a
conspiracy by BMW to ensure the engines die early.  

(Wonder if the BMW engineers were sitting on a "grassy Knoll" when they
thought up the Si lights? ;-)


Ron "3k interval my ass" Browne
1992 318is

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