Maintenance - BMW M5 Owner's Handbook Manual

Maintenance

BMW Maintenance System
The BMW Maintenance System contributes
towards upholding the roadworthiness and
operating reliability of your BMW. It also covers
comfort and convenience aspects, such as
ensuring that filters for the air in the car's inte-
rior are renewed in good time. Its purpose is to
optimise maintenance measures with a view to
minimising the cost of looking after your car.
If and when you come to sell your BMW, a com-
prehensive record of servicing will prove a sig-
nificant benefit.
Condition Based Service CBS
Sensors and advanced algorithms take account
of the varying conditions in which your BMW is
used. Condition Based Service uses these to
determine current and future servicing require-
ments. The system provides you with an oppor-
tunity to tailor the scope of maintenance work
to your personal standards, so that your BMW
will always be reliably operational.
You can call up the remaining times or dis-
tances of selected maintenance aspects indi-
vidually on the control display, as well as the
dates of any statutory inspections, see page 60:
> Engine oil
>
Brakes, separately for front and rear
> Micro-filter/activated charcoal filter
> Brake fluid
> Spark plugs
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> Vehicle check
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Statutory vehicle inspections, depending
on national requirements
Your car gradually stores such information in
the master key as the car is being driven. Your
BMW Service Advisor can read out these data
from the master key, and will propose an opti-
mised maintenance approach on this basis.
Please therefore hand the BMW Service Advi-
sor the key that you last used to drive the car
whenever you take it in for servicing.
Make sure that the date in the iDrive is
always set correctly, see page 66, other-
wise the effectiveness of Condition Based
Service CBS is not assured.<
Service Booklet
Further information on the maintenance rou-
tines required is provided in the Service Book-
let.
BMW recommends that you have mainte-
nance and repair work carried out by
BMW Service.
Make sure that maintenance work is confirmed
in the Service Booklet after it has been carried
out. These entries are evidence that your BMW
has been serviced regularly and correctly.<