BMW Official fuel additives

[X5Sport]

Whilst in my Dealer today, I noticed a display with two bottles of fuel additive, one each for Petrol & Diesel.

The petrol version has been out for a little while and the diesel version is very recent.  Orders for the Diesel version are still being supplied from Germany at present.

It's simply a case of adding one bottle to a full tank of fuel, drive until empty and repeat a couple of times.

Being a 'BMW badged' product it isn't cheap at over £11 per bottle (100ml I think) and you need to use it at least three times on a higher mileage engine, but at least you know that BMW are offering it as a tested approved product so they can't use a get out of jail clause for warranty purposes.....

BMW fuel additive

83 19 2 296 922  BMW Group Diesel additive

83 19 2 183 738  BMW Group Petrol additive

No idea who's it really is, unless anyone else has come across it?

Richard

[Sanj]

What's the purpose of the additive though? Clean the engine?

[X5Sport]

That's what the piccies showed.  Cleans the injectors and valves plus some gets into the oil and assists with lubrication.

According to the blurb it is a stronger version of what some fuel providers are adding at the pumps.  The theory is cleaner engines, lower emissions, improved economy and more power.  I expect it will be fractions, certainly if being used every tank, but who knows?

I have a good contact in the stores there and he runs it through his petrol E39 with 155K on the clock and he says the petrol version does work.  The diesel version is still so new so no one knew how good it might be.

It might be snake oil, but then again it might improve a mucky engine.

Richard