Nelson Au
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Hi guys-
I’m curious if anyone here is a BMW owner. I would be interested in hearing your experiences with regards to two issues, one is the maintenance and the other is a cell phone. I know there are several BMW sites, but I’ve not been to any in recent times and I’m not sure which is a good one with mature people that give useful feedback and information.
I have a 2001 330ci and the maintenance service just expired a few days ago. This is the one where the car has free oil changes and such for the first 3 years. As you know, because of the use of synthetic oils, the oil stays in the car for 15,000 miles or so before changes. I’ve only got 22K miles on it now. So I could never take advantage of the services, except once.
Since the 3-year thing expired, I called my dealer to see if it’s possible to buy one of those extended things for service. He said I missed it and I’m out of luck. I could have paid about $1,300.00 for an extension to 5 years up to 100K miles. That was a promotion. I would think they might try to sell me on it anyway! I suppose if it were an American car dealer, they would have. Maybe I can talk to the service manager.
Not sure what an oil change and maintenance visit costs. I’m sure it varies from dealer to dealer. I could do it myself; I did it all the time on my other cars. The car is so new still and it’s my first BMW, so I’m not all that mechanically familiar with it yet. The main thing that concerns me is the computer and resetting it after the oil changes.
On the cell phone, I’ve read that for 2002 and up cars, they offer a BMW branded Bluetooth module that fits in the trunk and is tied to the audio system of the car. So if you had a Bluetooth phone, it can talk to the car. And as such, if a call came in, you can answer the phone via the car using the cell phone button on the cell phone, all wirelessly. Since I missed this by a year, I was curious if there are kits that can modify a car to use the Bluetooth as described above. Or can the BMW module be made to fit the car.
Thanks!
Nelson
I’m curious if anyone here is a BMW owner. I would be interested in hearing your experiences with regards to two issues, one is the maintenance and the other is a cell phone. I know there are several BMW sites, but I’ve not been to any in recent times and I’m not sure which is a good one with mature people that give useful feedback and information.
I have a 2001 330ci and the maintenance service just expired a few days ago. This is the one where the car has free oil changes and such for the first 3 years. As you know, because of the use of synthetic oils, the oil stays in the car for 15,000 miles or so before changes. I’ve only got 22K miles on it now. So I could never take advantage of the services, except once.
Since the 3-year thing expired, I called my dealer to see if it’s possible to buy one of those extended things for service. He said I missed it and I’m out of luck. I could have paid about $1,300.00 for an extension to 5 years up to 100K miles. That was a promotion. I would think they might try to sell me on it anyway! I suppose if it were an American car dealer, they would have. Maybe I can talk to the service manager.
Not sure what an oil change and maintenance visit costs. I’m sure it varies from dealer to dealer. I could do it myself; I did it all the time on my other cars. The car is so new still and it’s my first BMW, so I’m not all that mechanically familiar with it yet. The main thing that concerns me is the computer and resetting it after the oil changes.
On the cell phone, I’ve read that for 2002 and up cars, they offer a BMW branded Bluetooth module that fits in the trunk and is tied to the audio system of the car. So if you had a Bluetooth phone, it can talk to the car. And as such, if a call came in, you can answer the phone via the car using the cell phone button on the cell phone, all wirelessly. Since I missed this by a year, I was curious if there are kits that can modify a car to use the Bluetooth as described above. Or can the BMW module be made to fit the car.
Thanks!
Nelson