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Originally Posted by leo95se
I am almost at 50k and debating this as well.
So far my maintenance has been 4 oil changes (plus some on my own) and one pair of wiper blades.
Brakes will likely last through 60k and cost around $1000 and an hour of my time. I am really struggling to see how you can break even on extended maintenance. 100k miles means 5 oil changes at $85 of oem parts. That's 850. Let's say they give you a LOT of wiper fluid, diesel additive etc. So round up to $1000. Plus a brake change. Bmw charges close to 2k. It costs under 1k in oem parts. So I'm at 2000 of maintenance.
What other costs come in to get you to break even here? I'm assuming extended maintenance is around 4K.
Thanks..
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the only way to breakeven on extended maintenance is to get 2 brake jobs in 2 years. Nearly impossible to do, unless you drive >40k miles. But to do that you need to drive highway miles, which requires less braking...
To date, I have yet to find a single person show me in an ex-post analysis that extended maintenance would have paid off in ANY BMW.