335d service costs vs service pack offer

[therams]

Just in the process of buying a new 335d and have been offered a 2 year or 36000 mile service pack by the dealer. £299

We’ll do about 17000miles a year so if I time it right I’ll get 2 services out of the pack

Which I reckon is probably a good deal.


Any idea of service costs, I reckon it must be £250 a time without the service pack

[Mr Whippy]

I thought interval was 2yr/36k?

I've only been reading Autotrader 'specs' though.

[Smuler]

It’s 3 years or 36k.

Put the registration of any 335d into the BMW service website and that will bring up costs , assuming that car doesn’t have a service pack

I’m not 100% sure , but although you do 17k miles a year if your manner of driving means the car determines it don’t need a service for 19k miles you may not get 2 services within the 36k deadline as I don’t think a dealer will let you service your car early just to help save you money.

I got the service pack on my X1. The countdown to the first service was 19k but it adjusted to 17k because of my driving. So I should get 2

Unless I’m wrong with my first point , I will also get a brake fluid service as that falls within 3 years.

Good value in this case.

[Driver101]

It depends how you drive the car. Some people get over 20,000 miles between services.

[Mr Whippy]

Ah, 18k/24m.

So yes you'll have to drive a bit harder to get it to want to be serviced twice.

Thus using the savings on fuel instead.

[therams]

the car is mostly used for commuting which is 10 miles of B roads followed by 35 miles of M1 "smart motorway"

i'm thinking its not worth getting the service pack offer....

[smashy]

Thats touch and go my 50k service pack I lucked out getting the third one in at 55k .......

[Mr Whippy]

If the pack covers other service jobs it might be useful though.

This is a proper sit down/work out exercise

[Mr Whippy]

Random comment, but the car I've put a deposit on has a 5yr pack, or so the original order sheet says.
It's a 1 owner car too.

To me that says the owner planned to keep it a while and hopefully looked after it.


Maybe a 5yr pack is better value? I assume it covers aircon, brake, and engine fluids?

[cuprabob]

Mr Whippy said:

Random comment, but the car I've put a deposit on has a 5yr pack, or so the original order sheet says.
It's a 1 owner car too.

To me that says the owner planned to keep it a while and hopefully looked after it.


Maybe a 5yr pack is better value? I assume it covers aircon, brake, and engine fluids?

Or...bought the car intending to keep it for the 5 years but developed an annoying fault that couldn't be fixed so traded it in for the next owner to worry about

Only kidding

Edited by cuprabob on Tuesday 31st October 22:45

Edited by cuprabob on Tuesday 31st October 22:46

[Mr Whippy]

Haha, that is a valid viewpoint though.

Extra vigilant checks required then

But if a 2yr pack is £300, a 5yr can't be too cheap, especially as you land well into 3 services and brake fluid, plus maybe aircon refills?


I'd go for a 5yr if the price works out better. 2yr might be a bit pointless?

[Smuler]

They had not long stopped the 5 year pack when I bought my X1 last March so no idea if they started offering it again ?

I didn’t buy with any plan for 3 years, it was more a case that if I kept it then it would be good value; but that is only on basis of me getting 3 services cos of “way I drive”.