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Originally Posted by mitch808
You have an M car, which means More Money!
Did you really think you could just go to autozone and pick up the on sale penzoil with coupon? 
Perhaps there are approved 3rd party oils, but if you have to buy BMW branded oil, we'll always pay a premium. |
I get the ///M tax and "if you wanna play..." stuff, just sincerely shocked at how much it costs to fill a single differential.
I've run royal purple or redline in my other BMWs without issue, though they were always manual and only one other was an ///M. Since the X5M has the automatic I used OE fluid in the tranny. This torque vectoring monstrosity uses more fluid than other diffs and the oil is super expensive also. I was thinking $150 max to swap fluid...didn't expect the diff fluid to cost more than the tranny fluid.
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