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5,000 | 29 | 52.73% | |
10,000 | 17 | 30.91% | |
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I'm supposed to change my oil? | 3 | 5.45% | |
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10-23-2023, 10:59 PM | #45 |
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I have sent several oil samples from my 2018 M550 to Blackstone for analysis. Regarding one sample, with 8500 miles on the oil, they characterized the results as a "nice report" and advised trying an interval of 11K miles next time. So, in an "evidence-based" analysis, it appears that the 11K interval may be suitable for my conditions. However, I don't commute in a major city. I am in the rural Finger Lakes and my minimum trip is 10 miles because my house is in the middle of nowhere. I'm in a cool climate and I don't thrash the car (but I also don't baby it). So, the engine gets nicely warm each time it goes out. I also intend to keep it many, many years. While Blackstone's analysis for me suggests 11K may be OK, I still change the oil twice that frequently because I want to maximize longevity. IMHO the 11K interval would be fine for someone in my situation but who intends to flip the car after a few years. On the other hand, anybody commuting in an M550 in, say, Houston or Tucson would be nuts to go with an 11K interval.
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Could not afford it the minute it came off warranty and needed brakes and tires, but man did it out a smile on my face for three years and man did I get laid a lot 😉 Wanting more toys and BMW’s just made me more motivated to achieve a healthy wealthy status. You can’t take your toys to heaven.
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In my business, the wealth accumulation business, I’ve seen people that should build wealth that never get off the ground. And seen people with $10 million+ get down to budgeting to hang on to the last million or less. And I’ve seen people with $200,000 retire in their 60’s without a thought of financial insecurity. It’s a numbers game. What do you have? What do you want? When are you going to die?
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Lots of good opinions here. I do not drive too many miles these days, partly because I use my 2016 Corvette Z06 as my daily driver when the weather is nice. Because it has been mostly nice this year and I have all season tires on the Z06, the BMW 540xi has been up on the lift since late April. Thinking of finally getting it down this week and putting the Corvette up for the winter. But is supposed to be almost 80 degrees today, so I am hesitating. Nonetheless, I always change the BMW oil once a year regardless of miles. I like the dealer going over the car once a year to see if there is anything more that needs to be attended to. Two years ago I had the oil changed just before a trip to Florida and the tech discovered a badly cut tire that was not yet leaking air. The cut was on the inside of the tire and not readily visible, but it would likely have failed on the trip so I was glad he spotted it. Also, on my Z06 about three years ago the engine broke a valve spring. I had an extended warranty and the warranty company insisted on seeing proof that I had changed the oil once a year per GM specifications before it would cover it. Glad I was able to provide that. By the way, I think your poll should include an option "Change it once a year regardless of miles". I'll bet many do this as I do. --Bob
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The sad reality is the economy is consolidating around a few skill sets and that consolidation will continue. I’ll be the party pooper, but the reality is technological innovation is driven largely by companies to reduce their labor costs. As a result, skills in STEM will continue to be valuable and continue to erode the value of everyone else. LLMs are the first major technological leap arriving from large scale cloud computing and increasingly powerful computer chips and it won’t be the last. We’re also graduating less and less people and have let our education systems erode. So ensuring people have the skills to stay ahead of technology is looking more and more bleak. But I like your optimistic view so I won’t challenge it |
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But this is the mindset that's the real problem. It is far too shortsighted. I'm not convinced UBI is a solution (people still need motivation...). But we're competing against China who is using state funding to push their technology and industry growth aggressively at our expense. Meanwhile our "low tax" focus is used less to invest in innovation and more to fuel the capital machine on Wall Street. Remember, Wall Street doesn't create anything of value. It can't by definition. But fractional reserves and derivatives allow creation of capital without creating underlying value... but I digress. As a result, we're underfunding our education institutions so heavily that we're rapidly losing our ability to maintain our edge. It is so bad that we're aggressively trying to block China's access to advanced chips and technology to try and retard their advancement. Think about that for a second. China is playing our system to its weaknesses. We're poorly funding our counters as we're aggressively focused on stock market gains. Meanwhile, they state fund aggressively while opening up only what it takes to vacuum our economic advantages away. And, no, I'm not advocating we state fund our economy. |
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But China is a house of cards and I’m not sure they have the ability to recover from a depression/deep recession the way we did after 2008/2009. Not a great analogy but I almost see it as a kind of economic war of attrition with China and I’m not sold they have the goods to last. And with that… I’ll also be done.
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I think you are confusing happiness (for lack of better words) with materialism. People value different things. Some people don't care about BMW's or cars but may care more about having $10 million in their retirement vs. $1 million and that makes them happy. Not a great analogy I know, but I would bet the house there is SOMETHING you enjoy that motivates you to accumulate wealth as a means to obtain it. Maybe not cars, but maybe a large college fund for the kiddos or that summer house.
All this said, I am glad I live in the US. Doesn't sound great over there.
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That said - my advice to anyone that is technically inclined but doesn’t love school would be to master a real hands on skill. Plumbing, carpentry, electric, etc. And go take some business classes at a community college to learn how bookkeeping, taxes, financial statements, and debt work. By 35-40 years old, that person can have 5-10 employees (at least) and run a business rather than breaking his back working for someone else’s. Of course, that ambition has to be there, also. And not only will he have a great income and avoid breaking himself down physically, but he will have an asset (business) to sell in retirement or hand down to his heirs. THAT is how WEALTH is created in this country and it is available to EVERYONE.
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I generally change oil every 6 months, which is normally between 5-6000 miles.
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Just out of curiosity what brand of oil do you frequent oil changes use?
With my G31 I’ll be using either Shell Helix Ultra or Castrol Edge, am unsure which yet as Shell was BMWs oil partner when the G3x range came out but BMW went back to Castrol in 2021 after only 5 years with Shell.
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Has nothing to do with old age in my case. We are on the precipice of losing it all.
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