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      09-16-2012, 11:40 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by phillye30fanboy View Post
not to be a flamer or a troll or whatever, but you don't think the engineers at BMW that are paid millions of dollars each year (collectively) put extensive research into whether or not an oil change is required every 15k miles to increase durability, reliability, and longevity of the vehicles they work very hard on?
In a word....no. BMW did a cost/benefit analysis and determined that if they were going to go ahead with the free scheduled maintenance, they were going to have to eliminate some costs somewhere else. Knocking 2 oil changes off the schedule certainly helps.
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