Maintenance; Bmw Maintenance System - BMW 318i Owner's Handbook Manual

Maintenance

BMW Maintenance System

The BMW Maintenance System contributes
towards upholding the roadworthiness and
operating reliability of your BMW. 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.
In the instrument cluster, you can have the
remaining distances and times for selected
maintenance tasks as well as any legally pre-
scribed dates displayed to you individually, see
page 66:
> Engine oil
> Brake pads: separately for front and rear
> Brake fluid
> Vehicle check
> Statutory vehicle inspections, depending
on national requirements
> Diesel particle filter
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Service data in the remote control
Your vehicle continuously saves service-
requirement information in the remote control
while you are driving. Your BMW Service Advi-
sor can read out this data from the remote con-
trol unit, and propose an optimised mainte-
nance approach. Whenever you take your car in
for servicing you should therefore hand your
BMW Service Advisor the remote control unit
that you last used.
Make sure that the date in the instrument
cluster is always set correctly, see
page 67, otherwise the effectiveness of Condi-
tion Based Service CBS is not
Service Booklet
More information on items that need regular
maintenance and on the scope of maintenance
required can be found in the Service Booklet.
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 vehi-
cle has been serviced regularly and
Socket for on-board
diagnosis OBD
Components which have a decisive effect on
exhaust emissions can be tested via the OBD
socket with a suitable device.
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