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only 10'000 miles after a service

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only 10'000 miles after a service

Post by squeaky2 » Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:51 am

Just had the car serviced with oil and all the filters etc but the car still reckons its only got 10'000 miles till the next oil change.........i know im doing a lot of town driving but i thought that this should be higher.

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Re: only 10'000 miles after a service

Post by X5Sport » Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:21 pm

Mine came back with 18,000 miles BUT with a date of this November as that's when the MOT is due.

Did they put non-long life oil in?  That can shorten the service intervals to 10k. 'M' cars are also shorter.

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Re: only 10'000 miles after a service

Post by squeaky2 » Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:25 pm

Ill have to check about the oil but for the price of it its either long life or i now own shares in Castrol

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