Is a facelift 6 Series worth the extra money?

[Patrick Bateman]

Ebay is always an option.

[jazzdude]

6BMW said:

Around £800 to change interior trim so its not easy!

Another option is to vinyl wrap the trim which can be done for around £150ish

Is there somebody that does this that you know of?

[fluffnik]

Patrick Bateman said:

Ebay is always an option.

I think that's where the folks I know got theirs.

[jazzdude]

They sell on there for £600 the set it seems.

[Beardy10]

jazzdude said:

the reports all seem to have focused on the gear lever, the led lights and the Idrive update.

I've been having a think about a 6 series and from what I can tell it's the 2009 cars that have the iDrive/SatNav update. The tell tale is that the updated cars have more than one button behind the iDrive controller. Looks like they updated iDrive after LCI was introduced.

This one doesn't have it

http://bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/bmwauc/details/0,,1156___as...

And this one deoes

http://bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/bmwauc/details/0,,1156___as...


They both have the new gear lever though so are presumably both LCI cars.

[6BMW]

jazzdude said:

Is there somebody that does this that you know of?

Yes

[bennyboydurham]

Currently shopping for an LCI 6er for the wife and have driven a 650, 630 and 635d. The 650 makes a wonderful noise but it is the 635d that really encourages you to drive like an utter loon; the torque has to be experienced to be believed. The 630 is a bit more relaxed but there's plenty of go in it and doing the sums over 15k miles the 630 was by far the cheapest to run.

[jazzdude]

bennyboydurham said:

Currently shopping for an LCI 6er for the wife and have driven a 650, 630 and 635d. The 650 makes a wonderful noise but it is the 635d that really encourages you to drive like an utter loon; the torque has to be experienced to be believed. The 630 is a bit more relaxed but there's plenty of go in it and doing the sums over 15k miles the 630 was by far the cheapest to run.

If overall cost is obviously an issue, why have you decided on an LCI model as opposed to say a low miles 06 model and 6-7k less?

[bennyboydurham]

jazzdude said:

If overall cost is obviously an issue, why have you decided on an LCI model as opposed to say a low miles 06 model and 6-7k less?

Because cost isn't an issue, I want an LCI model for the reasons we've already heard about, the wife's Z4 is an '07 so she'll want something newer than that (anything post 07 is an LCI anyway) and the fuel bill for the 630 is less than the 635d.

[jazzdude]

Apart from the seats, does anyone know the other differences between a ' Sport' and a non sport car?

A looked at a couple of cars that had many good options on them that were not Sport models. Granted I prefer the seats in the Sport but I couldn't see any other differences. The non sports all have 19" wheels if that is another difference.

[6BMW]

Suspension different
Gearbox ratios are different (I think, certainky felt that way on a test drive)
Seats are different
Steering wheels are different sports thicker rimmed.
Different Alloys.
Resale much better on sports

[jazzdude]

6BMW said:

Suspension different
Gearbox ratios are different (I think, certainky felt that way on a test drive)
Seats are different
Steering wheels are different sports thicker rimmed.
Different Alloys.
Resale much better on sports

You might be right on the gearbox. I drove a Sport and non sport and the Sport definitley felt more eager in the uptake.

[aruck]

Sorry but what does LCI stand for?!

[jazzdude]

Life Cycle Impulse

Some fancy way to say that they changed a few things halfway through its production run.