BMW servicing
Approval-grade oil, logbook stamped. Price confirmed before work starts.
European servicing from $199 Offer terms ↗What it costs
European car service
4-cylinder European cars
Book this ↗ SERVICINGMajor service
Logbook items plus the larger interval items for your car.
Book this ↗4-cylinder European models on approval-grade oil with OE-specification filters. Price depends on make, model, kilometres and oil specification, confirmed before any work starts. Six- and eight-cylinder engines and performance models are quoted first.
Prices include GST · Price terms
Details
Servicing here does not affect your consumer guarantees, and manufacturer warranties generally do not require dealer servicing where the work meets the manufacturer's standards. We follow the schedule, use appropriate parts, stamp the logbook and keep the records.
How we service your BMW
- Your manufacturer's service schedule, for your model, year and engine
- Oil carrying your engine's approval code, from Liqui Moly, Penrite, Motul, Castrol, Mobil and Valvoline
- OE-specification filters from Mann, Mahle, Ryco and Bosch
- Service indicator reset
- Logbook stamped and the records kept
- Price confirmed for your car before any work starts
What can change the price
Service schedule
BMW uses Condition Based Service: there is no fixed interval. The car tracks oil, brake pads, brake fluid, the cabin filter, spark plugs and a vehicle check, and tells you what is due. For most owners that works out to about once a year. Your car's own logbook is the final word for your model.
What a generic service misses
- The Longlife grade for that engine
- LL-01, LL-04, LL-12 FE and LL-17 FE+ are not interchangeable. LL-04 in a petrol engine without a particulate filter is the classic mistake in Australia.
- Each job reset in the service system
- BMW asks for every completed item to be reset in the car, so the next due dates it shows you are right.
- Battery registration
- A new battery has to be registered to the car, or the charging system keeps treating it as the old one.
- Brake fluid on time
- The service system calls brake fluid by age, so a car that does few kilometres still comes due.
Needs a scan tool: Condition Based Service reset, item by item · Battery registration · Electronic parking brake service mode · Fault code read
What moves the figure
- How much oil your engine takes
- Engines take different amounts. Yours always gets its full fill, and the price is confirmed for your car.
- The oil your engine needs
- We use the specification your manufacturer sets, from Liqui Moly, Penrite, Motul, Castrol, Mobil and Valvoline. The grade and the brand change the figure.
- Your oil filter
- A less common or dearer filter changes the figure. If a part has to be ordered in, we tell you when we call.
- What your schedule calls for
- Other filters, spark plugs or fluids due at this service are extra items, priced before we start.
You stay in the driver's seat.
Choose your service
Basic or European servicing, or tyres. Not sure? Pick “something else” and tell us what's going on.
Give us your rego
Or your tyre size. That is how we look up your car and what it takes.
We call you back
With the price for your car and a time that suits. Nothing is booked until you say yes.
Will an independent service affect my BMW warranty?
No. Per the ACCC, independent servicing does not affect your consumer guarantees, and manufacturer warranties generally do not require dealer servicing where the manufacturer's standards are met. We meet the schedule and specification, and document it.
Can you read the service data?
Yes. That is the starting point for the quote rather than an afterthought, and it is why we will often quote less than a flat annual service.
Do you use specification-correct oil?
Yes, matched to the exact engine variant, which is why we ask for it before quoting. The invoice records what was used.
Details
The useful thing about a BMW is that it keeps track of its own service items individually, and the useful thing we can do is read that honestly and quote only what is actually due.
That often means a smaller invoice than an owner expects. It occasionally means a larger one, because something has fallen due that a distance-based schedule would have missed.
We are independent and not authorised by BMW. We meet the specification, record what we fitted, and tell you what the car reported.
BMW oil approvals
- BMW Longlife-01 · 5W-30
- Petrol engines without a petrol particulate filter
- BMW Longlife-04 · 5W-30
- Diesels, and petrol engines with a petrol particulate filter. Not valid for other petrol engines in Australia
- BMW Longlife-12 FE · 0W-30
- Certain diesels from about 2014 (badged 18d, 20d, 30d and others)
- BMW Longlife-17 FE+ · 0W-20
- Selected newer petrol engines
Where these claims come from
- BMW facts on this page
- BMW Australia, service portal
- BMW facts on this page
- carsales, what is condition-based servicing
- BMW facts on this page
- Koed BMW, BMW engine oil approvals by engine
- BMW facts on this page
- Penrite, OEM specifications list
- Servicing at an independent workshop does not affect your consumer guarantees, and manufacturer warranties generally do not require dealer servicing where the work meets the manufacturer's standards.
- ACCC, Independent repairers factsheet (New Car Retailing Industry market study)
- Service schedules, oil specifications and intervals are set by the manufacturer for your specific model, year and engine.
- The logbook or service booklet supplied with your vehicle. We work from that rather than publishing an interval here.
- Manufacturers must make service and repair information available to independent repairers.
- ACCC, Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme
Other makes
24 years of
mechanical experience.
Everyday servicing. European cars. Complex repairs.
Talk directly to the people working on your car.
7 Daking Street.
Mon to Sat 8:30am to 5:30pm, Sun 9am to 2pm
North Parramatta NSW 2151
Licensed repairer MVRL 62840