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      01-08-2019, 05:45 PM   #120
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Originally Posted by kobluna View Post
I will atleast keep changing my engine oils more often than what BMW suggest. In Finland the oil change interval is actually 30000km (~19000miles) or 2 years. That is quite a lot and I have followed the 15000km/1 year interval. Maybe that is too much as well, I don't know?
I personally get my oil changed between 8-10k KM (I believe the interval on my iDrive is 16 or 18k KM between oil changes). This equates to about 5-6k MILES. Not exactly much help to you, but I personally wouldn't go past 12k KMs between oil changes (I want to stress that this is what I personally do, doesn't mean its the best or even "recommended")

Wondering if oil viscosity and the ambient air temperature affects this as well.... would be interesting to see if there is any correlation between geographic location (and therefore temperature) and chain failures. Granted I doubt we will ever get this data.
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