Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Let's face it - luxury makes don't want you to change your own oil. They want you to bring it into their service dept. And they don't care about 2nd, 3rd, 4th owners.
All manufactures don't want drivers/owners change their own oil or do any other any maintenance, they want us to bring our vehicles to their dealers for any service. They also want us to use their fluids, be it oil or coolant or ATF or brake fluid ...,
But we, the owners, like to do our own maintenance and we should be able to do it. If a manufacture try to make maintenance more difficult for DIY by eliminating previous available part(s)/equipment(s) I, as a consumer, will buy my next vehicle(most likely car) from other manufacture(s).
I was thinking about buying a new car the last few months, BMW 4-series was at or near the top of my shopping list. As of now, without the oil dipstick tube, it and all other BMW series are crossed out.