Big Bangle Booty - 635D

[d_a_n1979]

CornedBeef said:

Boo, today I learnt that runflats can't be puncture repaired apparently.

Nope...

And I'm gonna say what most other folks will say; swap them out for non RFTs and have a decent tyre compressor kit in the boot

[Lozw86]

Rft’s can be repaired (plugged) as long as the hole is not in the sidewall

[village24]

Re your battery drain, my brother had similar on his 635, traced back to the telematics unit in the boot, I'd start with an unplug, contact cleaner and leave it over night.

Unfortunately if it is the telematics unit, you have to buy new as they have to be coded to your car and from what I found last time they can't be programmed again, but that could be false info I found.

[CornedBeef]

One new tyre later this week and back in action - I do think the battery alert is the little unit in the boot, it seems common enough, a job for next time it's in at the garage.

A little job this sunny weekend was to tart up the calipers a bit, only a small job but these things tend to add up to a big difference! The alloys really need refurbishing to go in hand with this next. Looks good to me though...



Grubby before:






And fresh after:



And at Thruxton for some lunch - memories of my 996 blowing a power steering line a few years ago are still in my mind

Edited by CornedBeef on Sunday 9th April 15:53

[SFTWend]

I owned a black 650 with oxblood trim for four years, which is a very long time for me.

Great cars, way under the radar and underrated. I found that the ladies loved the look of it.

[CornedBeef]

A bit of polishing done this weekend by hand (how much does a machine polish cost these days?). You can really see the blue in BMWs 'carbon black'. Also, air conditioning duly topped up, 33g of gas removed and 700g of gas put back in! Hopefully it was just low and had never been topped up, and I don't have a leak - something to monitor.

9000 miles so far since purchase last year.

[d_a_n1979]

Stunning colour

Good work with the brake calipers; same as what I had to do with my F01s brakes; fortunately they clean up easy and are easy to hand paint

[Court_S]

gf15 said:

Lovely car!
Yours has the exclusive leather, like my 2005 650 did. The pictures below are from when I sold it with 201k miles. Still drove beautifully and was an extremely reliable car for the 8 years and 160k miles I put it through. It never let me down.

Enjoy it!

160k is a good effort; that must have changed through some super in the process!

Op; carbon black is a great colour. My 130 LE used to really pop when cleaned, polished and waxed.

[CornedBeef]

It appears the cars being petulant! The air conditioning regas lasted around 5 days before going warm again, so I reckon we've got a hole somewhere...

Also, a locking wheel nut head sheered off over the weekend.

B*stard!

[d_a_n1979]

CornedBeef said:

It appears the cars being petulant! The air conditioning regas lasted around 5 days before going warm again, so I reckon we've got a hole somewhere...

Also, a locking wheel nut head sheered off over the weekend.

B*stard!

Damn Find a local indy aircon specialist if you can, stay away from KwiKfit

And sods law re the wheel nut! I bin them ASAP now & refuse to run them; they're a liability IMO

[Court_S]

CornedBeef said:

It appears the cars being petulant! The air conditioning regas lasted around 5 days before going warm again, so I reckon we've got a hole somewhere...

Also, a locking wheel nut head sheered off over the weekend.

B*stard!

That’s bloody annoying re the A/C; hopefully it’s an easy problem to find and not too expensive.

[Lotusgone]

Probably unrelated but the driver's vent is very weak on my 645. Do they all do that, sir?

[CornedBeef]

This is what I've been left with, which might mean extraction isn't the absolute worst?

With the drivers went, the temperature can be adjusted separately via idrive (not the flow mind you) if that's possibly your problem!

[CornedBeef]

The car continues to be a rebellious partner, the wiper arm bearing has separated today! I suspect the chap who replaced the windscreen last week was heavy handed?

Off to the handy man on Monday for -

Air conditioning leak diagnosis/fix
Sheared locking wheel bolt removal
New wiper linkage mechanism

[CornedBeef]

And fixed! The wiper linkage was a pain, but it was ultimately a DIY job on the driveway with a £25 part from Amazon. Wipers back and functioning fine.

Then it was off to my trusted garage for the air conditioning and broken wheel bolt. A dye test was carried out which found a hole in the condenser, all standard stuff. New condenser fitted, system regassed and wheel bolt extracted for £360 which I think is decent.

Saturday new front tyres, then Sunday drive it to Belgium!

[CornedBeef]

Sitting pretty (IMO of course) outside our bnb in Ghent. No dramas on the journey over, really happy I invested in the air conditioning fix!

I totted up my bills since November and I've spent around £2k somehow on this - it feels really good to drive though. A chunk of that is servicing and tyres, but also a larger chunk is deferred maintenance - things like the glow plugs, holed condenser etc. Still, hopefully with those addressed I'll not need to touch them again

[Court_S]

Looks grand.

I’m hoping the AC leak in our E91 330i is something nice and easy like the condenser rather than one of the pipes buried at the back of the engine. I know which one it’s going to be though….

[CornedBeef]

Court_S said:

Looks grand.

I’m hoping the AC leak in our E91 330i is something nice and easy like the condenser rather than one of the pipes buried at the back of the engine. I know which one it’s going to be though….

I was worried I'd have something else on top of the condenser, classic paranoia on my part - but its all resolved thankfully with just this, hopefully yours is nice and easy too!

Trip to Belgium completed successfully and in loads of comfort - I rounded the week off with a trip to Goodwood this Sunday with a few mates. An eclectic mix of cars - definitely more soulful then mine, but I thoroughly enjoyed the early morning enthusiastic drive up. Really happy with the car now everything is tip top - I still want to get the wheels refurbished and a touch of lowering, but funds are allocated elsewhere at this moment in life!

[d_a_n1979]

Still a fabulous looking car

[Court_S]

Sounds like a good trip; a great car for covering some big miles in too.

My A/C is also a dead condenser. The bottom left corner doesn’t look too clever. I’ve ordered a Nissens jobbie from Autodoc which is being fitted a week on Sunday. Luckily it’s not been too warm since I collected the car.