Brake fluid change.....what do you pay?

[sapphireblack]

Curious if this is a unilateral price (vehicle age related) or if its made up on the day?

[Sport160]

Do you mean at a main dealer or just in general? I pay £45 from a local garage.

[X5Sport]

My local BMW Dealer was £160 including a 90-min safety check.

I do it myself using a pressure bleeder system. £45 isn’t bad a all.

[sapphireblack]

I should have said what i paid earlier in the week

£70.01 at main dealer whilst in for its 'alternator' recall.

[weirdfish]

I take it this is something you cant do yourself as you need to operate the abs system to bleed all the old fluid from the valves.

[X5Sport]

I have done it with a pressure reservoir connected to the master reservoir. The pressure is set to 20psi (you can go to 2-Bar [28psi]) and then I start at the furthest point away and do each wheel in turn until the fluid runs clear. I shut the bleed valve and then give the caliper a series of gentle taps and re-open the bleed valve fo a few more seconds.

If the system needs more invasive work and pipes get opened then you might need the ABS cycling kit. That being said, when I changed a front caliper I used a special pipe clamp in two places to close the line and then put the system under 10psi pressure as this ensured that the system was under positive pressure preventing air getting back in.

If the master cylinder needs changing then I believe that it is essential to use the ABS bleeder system due to the increased likelihood of air getting into the modulator.

So far both our E46 and E71 have been fine doing it this way.

This is the pressure reservoir (I don’t fill it with fluid but just monitor the brake fluid level in the master reservoir as it saves a lot of cleaning).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1