Anyone here seen Mike Miller's old school long life maintenance schedule? Apologies if it's been covered before but the site search didn't come up with anything.
He's not a great fan of the e46 cooling system & suggests some preventive maintenance on the M54 engine as well as others.
From what I can gather he suggests services should be done the same way as BMW used to do them before the Accountants started making cars. Lifetime fill of fluids at 100,000 miles is questioned as is changing the gearbox oil. He admits that he's seen automatic gearboxes fail at 200,000 miles in maintained boxes as well as unmaintained gearboxes at the same mileage.
Anyway, if you're interested have a read, it's opened my eyes. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kneb.net%2Fbmw%2FOld%2520School%2520Maintenance%2520Schedule%2520v02.11.pdf&ei=JhhAVcKuMczgaoWTgbgN&usg=AFQjCNHZBJivdw3O8bv546Ah1LYMALBGjw&sig2=8aBqDGDXQB_S0a32SJy8DA&bvm=bv.91665533,d.d2s