What's best is what suits you, the type of engine, the car you buy, the way you use it and treat it, the cost of additional servicing (home, indy, dealer) and how long you intend to keep it...bearing in mind that all the best plans are subject to change so maybe a bit of quiet in between DIY oil changing (scandalously cheap when compared with main dealer charges for oils fitted on site) in between scheduled chnages might be a bit of sound investment*.
What's best for me, who generally buys older well maintained cars of relatively simple design, won't be best for someone at the other extreme who buys new and gets shot of them at end of or shortly after warranty expires.
Concrete i suspect from your posts that your car has been treated with some mechanical sympathy and sensible driving, maybe you even check the oil level now and again which seems to be an increasingly rare event..:) doing 120+ where possible i regard as senible by the way, your experience might be completely different to a car thrashed from stone cold, turned off with the turbo still glowing red, and subject to repeated stop/start journeys.
*that investment in good through (over)servicing pays off when either you decide to keep the car for many years, or if you decide to sell when someone like me and i'm not alone, comes along who's prepared to pay more for a well maintained used car, indeed in some cases... German cars and those fitted with the PSA 1.6 Diesel of Doom (that'll rattle a cage or two..:-) i'm looking right at you, where some of us wouldn't give a Diesel of those origins with 20k oil changes a second glance we might consider one favourably that had been treated differently.
RobJP, i know you get main dealer in between normal service intervals on your BMW, personally i think thats a very wise move, i'd be very interested to know if that extra servicing makes the sale any easier when you come to sell, if i was in the market for a car like yours at the time and you advertised the servicing well i'd be beating a path to your door before all the others.
Edited by gordonbennet on 16/08/2015 at 11:00
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