00 01 08 (483) New "Maintenance Records"Service Booklet and Maintenance Documentation

00 01 08 (483) New "Maintenance Records" Service Booklet And Maintenance Documentation

All models

Situation:
At this time, a service booklet accompanies each vehicle as a means of providing the customer with information about scope of maintenance and as maintenance documentation, the record of the vehicle's maintenance history. The service booklets differ in the description of the maintenance system, the maintenance overview and language. In all, there are considerably more than 100 different service booklets.

The service booklet will be radically revised for all vehicles as of model year 2009 (production as of 08/08 or 09/08, as applicable). For the sake of simplification, customer information has been moved from the service booklet to the owner's handbook for the vehicle. This, in turn, reduces the scope of the information in the service booklet to the maintenance documentation, the record documenting the vehicle's maintenance history. Symbols are now used, simplifying the use of the maintenance documentation and enabling the new booklet "Maintenance Records" to be used independently of natural languages.

In future, there will be only one Maintenance Records booklet used for all BMW models. Similarly, there will be a single 'Maintenance Records for M Vehicles booklet for all M vehicles. The old-style service booklets will remain available for ordering as spare parts for vehicles manufactured prior to 09/08. The changeover for MINI vehicles will probably take place in 12/08.

Procedure:
The procedure for documentation remains the same, but the boxes for the entries have been changed.

1. Enter the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN): Page 3
2. Enter date of pre-delivery check in day/month/year form: Page 9.
3. Document maintenance records: Page 12ff.

- Enter maintenance item as

"X" for not checked

"Tick" for checked

It is not permissible to leave a box blank.

The meanings of the symbols are explained on Pages 6-8; they correspond as far as possible to the symbols used in the vehicle.

- Odometer reading / date

Enter odometer reading in kilometres/miles

Enter date of maintenance in day/month/year form

- Confirm entries:

Confirm entries by company stamp and signature.

It is also possible to glue in certificates for accident repairs, for example, on Page 2.