98,000 km with my BMW 320d; A monsoon drive & service updates

Overall very happy with the BMW service experiences at former Navnit and now KUN BMW.

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"Monsoon Drive" and Service Updates

At Maravanthe Beach, in a BMW Group Drive

A couple of weeks ago we did an exciting "Monsoon Drive" with a local BMW 3-series owners group. We had a total of 10 3-ers driving together, amidst torrential rains and flood conditions, to Coastal Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra. That drive is described in details in this separate travelogue.

Please allow me to share a few pictures from that drive here, to keep this ownership thread up-to-date.

A convoy of BMWs through scenic roads:

Convoy in Agumbe Ghat:

In Agumbe Ghat:

An Outlier in the group of Red and Blue 3ers:

The convoy at Maravanthe Beach:

At Cape Goa Restaurant's parking:

"Stranded in front of Sawantwadi Palace" - see the full travelogue for that story:

Mud from three states accumulated at the end of the trip:

Extremely dirty, but totally worth it after a great trip in the peak monsoon across three states:

A cleaning session after the memorable and eventful drive:

Service Updates:

The car was due for oil change, according to CBS, exactly at the end of this drive.

This was the first time the oil change interval matched nicely with an end of a long drive. Most of the times in the past, the oil change interval was falling in the middle of a planned long drive. On many occasions, I have changed oil about 1000km in advance, just because otherwise the oil change interval would fall in the middle of a 2000km drive! With that history, it was nice to have an oil change interval exactly at the end of a drive!

The car is now at just above 98,000km. This was the 10th oil change total. Thus, on average I got about 9,800km per oil change, following the CBS strictly, and that is not too bad at all.

During this last monsoon drive, as described in that travelogue, the wipers were running non-stop, and they were indeed overworked. It has been almost three years since I changed the wipers last. They were still doing the job fine, and worked fine in the latest monsoon drive which as an extreme test for the wipers. However, given the age of the wipers, I decided to change those this time, along with the oil change service. So got a new set of wipers installed. The cost of the new set of wipers, at the official service center, was about ₹6,000.

As always, this service was carried out at KUN BMW (previously Navnit BMW) in Bangalore. As always, great experience with them this time too. They did the job well, on time, and with polite attitude. Overall very happy with the BMW service experiences at former Navnit and now KUN BMW.

So with the service done, new wipers, and in general all maintenance done, the car is totally fine and still ready for the next challenging long drive, at 98,000km. I hope to cross 100,000km in the next drive.

Will keep this post updated as I cross 100,000km, hopefully soon. That is all for now. Thank you very much for reading!

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