[younghov85]

I ahve had my car for 8 months and have driven for 11500 miles, and my maintainence indicator is saying that I STILL have another 9000 miles til my first oil change. Earlier this week I went ahead and changed the oil on my own, and it seemed very dirty, along with a very bad odor. I felt that BMW sets the cars cpu to stretch the oil to the very max it can be stretched, and maybe even more. If this means i have to wait for an oil change every 20,000 mi., then this free maintainence deal is really not worth it, in my opinion. Anyone else had their oil in for 20,000+ miles?