Taking my own oil to a service

[ethomas]

Since I finally have a car I somewhat care about, with a modicum of performance, I would like to make sure that when it is serviced it gets the good stuff. Is it considered weird to order my own oil from somewhere like Opie, and taking that to the service? I realise that the garage will probably use whatever I request, but it would be nice to be sure, and also avoid any additional markup that they may apply (and delay if they need to order it somewhere). The same goes (to a lesser extent) to filters and other consumables. The car is going in on Wednesday to a local chap, he is well reviewed on good garage scheme, and a small independent. The car is a BMW 325ti, hardly exotic, but worth looking after.

I have not been in this position before so it might be a stupid question, thanks in advance for any advice you can give

[ethomas]

So I took the combined advice and gave the garage a call this morning. They said it was perfectly ok for me to bring my own oil, so I will do that.

Thanks for the help