30,000 service - is it a biggie ?

[pint6x]

Bike has now done 32,000 miles - the last (24,000) service was done at 27,000 when I bought it, so I'm not letting it go way beyond it's servicing point.

Anyway - needs a 30k service - is this a biggie ? what do they do at this one ?

cheers

6X

 

[Vern]

Kick the tyres and charge about 300 quid, do it yourself, or buy a service kit and come up here and do it if you're not sure about it.

 

[Iain Hogg]

Oils( engine, gearbox, final drive), filters (oil + air and fuel if you use dirty stuff) and plugs.

Check and adjust the valves and have a good look round.

As said before - save the £300 for beer at Princetown!

Iain

 

[(RIP) Jamie]

Just changed me oils - POP = 1 hour?

Did brakes, new pads all round, new rear disk, clean calipers out, and change fluid = 2 hours tops.

New plugs and air filter coming = 1/2 hour

Full nut and bolt check and grease up this weekend (and a wash I suppose) = ?

Adjust valves and balance injectors, later on.

I'd DIY, take Vern up on his offer - go and have him hang around, helps your confidence, gives you someone to chat to and help you - he should keep you in tea / coffee, and he won't charge you the best part of a monkey.

Very therapeutic also

Jamie

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

i remember reading years ago that an air filter isn't required in an english climate for the winter months.
The writer argued that their isn't enough 'contaminents' in air due to moisture and therefore the filter could be removed for storage to be replaced later.

If you think about it, engines have to operate in dusty continents and the filter has to be designed for worse case - its probably filling up with stuff here that wouldn't do any harm anyway.

i'm not saying i agree with the argument though-just thought provoking


Phil

 

[(RIP) Jamie]

Doesn't the air filter restrict air to the balanced rate. Taking out the filter and running the bike would increase the airflow, causing bad running and lean mixture, would could in turn burn a hole in your piston, and other associated nastiness.

There are still contaminents in the air, but to different degrees depending on where you live. I bet I could shit up filter in London in half the time I could up here in the Peak District. I wouldn't run a bike without it, because it's presence is factor in to the bikes overall perfomance.

To put it into context, compare the money and time at B@W getting the mixture right via various filter designs, to what one bloke might have done in the probable short term.

Jamie

 

[The Mechanic]

Do not run with the air filter removed.

Question, how big is a particle of dirt and how hard, tough is that particle?

The air filter is there to prevent not just dust but the very same 'hard and extremely scratchy' particles entering the induction and subsequently combustion chambers, where upon those particles reak havoc between the piston/rings and cylinder walls.

The bufoon that suggested leaving the air filter sitting on the shelf over winter is a total idiot, what about all that lovely salt the council love to throw about at the mearest hint of a chill evening. Plus as already mentioned the fuel mix will also be compromised.

 

[pint6x]

further to this.....

Thanks for the offer Vern - I may well be in touch.

Is there anywhere I can get hold of something which says what needs to be done at each service in detail ? The service booklet covers the basics - i.e. change oil, kick tyres, wash beak etc.

A service check list in other words.......

6X

 

[(RIP) maverick]

Re: Do not run with the air filter removed.

The bufoon that suggested leaving the air filter sitting on the shelf over winter is a total idiot

Agree with you Mechanic, strange how some spanner boyz can't distinguise between a dirty and clean airfilter. Mate's bike went in recently for his 18000 mile service and came back £260 later. I was over there and asked whether they changed the airfilter and he did not know, took it out and it was filthy as hell.
Told him to do himself a favour and replace it anyway. Proven fact that dirty airfilters = high fuel consumption. I change mine every season(Once winter, once summer) unless it would by pure chance wandered off road and needs replacement before that. They are not that hard or expensive to replace.

 

[MikeO]

Anyway - needs a 30k service - is this a biggie ?

Phil,

no it isn't - it's a 6k service - £100ish at my dealer.


Mike

 

[Squidbrain]

Is there anywhere I can get hold of something which says what needs to be done at each service in detail

Pint

Haynes Manual. You can borrow mine if you fancy. PM me.

Mick (insomniac mode)

p.s. Don't let Vern anywhere near your bike, he'll cover it in panniers, light bars, top boxes and stainless bolts. My mother told me never to trust a man with a mud flap on his beak.

 

[Hillhound]

If you go to the BMW website you can print off the service schedules with a list of things to be done at each mileage interval