BMW MECHANICS! What is the constant maintenance everyone is talking about?
There will be a lot. BMW requires quite a bit of maintenance. Folks like to call them crap for that….but when you get superior performance, you have to keep up the maintenance. I hope you have a very well equipped garage with lots of tools. You need to check whether this particular 6 cylinder uses manualy adjusted valves or it uses hydrolic followers (the followers will never require any maintenance, only replacement after some time). Most 6 cylinders (except for M models) did not use the hydrolic followers, so you will have to adjust the valves ever 12 to 15K miles or every year. This will require all spark plug removal, valve cover removal. Then you will need to go 1 valve at a time using a feeler gauge. You will need to read on this on user forums or in BMW Bently manual. If it is an automatic, it will require additional maintenance that the dealership actually does not offer (unless you pay an additional price, warranty or BMW maint programs do not cover it). You will need to dro
