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The fuel filter is in the tank and costs $180 for the part and probably 2 - 3 hours for labor to install. So you are going to change your fuel filter every 30K miles for $400? The filter won't fail. It would at worst case get clogged enough to make the engine starve of fuel and you would notice a lack of performance and it would go into limp home mode, but it wouldn't leave you on the side of the road.
Cars used to have hand cranks to start the engine until Cadillac introduced the electric starter. Why is it that people on this board can't get their head around that as technology progresses, things (like maintenance intervals) change. One of the reasons BMW's are expensive is becuase they are well (some times over) engineered. From that engineering comes things like lifetime fuel filters.
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