What fluids do you maintain for yourself?

[wyretrip]

I'm interested in taking over as much of the maintenance of my F55 as possible. Which fluids do you maintain for yourselves? What do you still go to the shop for?

[GreenCactus]

I don't think the 3rd gens are as easy to DIY as the previous ones. We don't even have a dipstick! 

Gretchen will go to the dealer for everything while she's under the maintenance warranty/regular warranty. After that, I'll probably try to DIY some things (not the oil, that's just not worth it to me), kind of like I did with Cricket. 

[1975_mini]

Just my personal opinion: I still do oil changes at the dealer, because there is usually a special to have it done for around $60-$70. You are going to spend around $50 for all the oil, filters, etc.. So $20 is not worth the effort, and you get a free list of all the things they think you should fix/maintain.

things like brakes, belts, and coolant are worth doing yourself, to save the labors costs and are not difficult to do.

[Gearhead60]

I do the oil changes between the warranty ones. Mini says every 10,000....I say F that. I change it every 5,000. I have a shop with a lift at work and I can do it relatively easily. Add in I'm 45-60 minutes from any Mini dealer so the aggravation of taking it there outweighs doing it myself. As far as other fluids I only have 12,000 miles on the car. I haven't even added windshield washer fluid yet, although I just ordered BMW concentrate from Amazon.  Damn warning chime, I must finally be low. I haven't figure out how the change the headlight fluid yet, but am open to assistance....