Re: The when of switching to synthetic engine oil
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:41 am
Thenkyew (bowing..) Luis and I put quite a bit of work into that sectionhjsbmw wrote:If you're a member of the BMWOA you can find most anything here: http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=44.gersh10 wrote: Sound great! So what would be the best maintenance manual to show me this???
It seems quite popular.The BMW factory DVD is really somewhat limited. It assumes the user has gone through BMW training. It assumes the user has BMW special tools. Lots of things that are fairly elementary are simply skipped. For $10 it's worth having since it has good torque/maintenance charts.. but don't count on it for a single source manual.The BMW factory manual DVD also explains these tasks. You can find the DVD on eBay for between $5-$15 for a bootleg copy. It took me a while to find things on the DVD though. I'd still recommend looking at the BMWOA pages.
There are also the Jim Von Baden DVDs about which I can't say anything since I don't own any. (http://www.jimvonbaden.com/JVB_Productions.html)
JimVonB's DVD is good (especially since he corrected a torque setting that caused some people problems.) It pretty much parallels the MOA hexhead writeups. It is a bit limited in most of it is done on a GS, not on an R and there are some differences. I'd put it as probably worth having.