Originally posted by todras:
You switched to synthetic at what mileage?! Hope you don't have oil leaks.

I have 189,500 on my car and was wondering what you guys thought about changing out the brake and power steering fluid?

I hope to god these aren't original.



I changed over at 106k miles with no problems. I do need to change the PS fluid though, the pump is starting to make nasty noises. AFAIK the PS fluid is original.


One note: when switching to fully synthetic don't extend the drain interval for the first couple changes as the oil will get nasty very quickly by cleaning out all the crap the old oil accumulated. At least that was my experience. YMMV.

Scott

Troll! '99 BMW 328i