Dan s F12 640i

[dtulip8]

So for those of you that followed my short ownership of an E92 M3, it didn’t end well! Car ended up with bore score following suspected injector failure so I punted it on for a small loss to someone who will rebuild the engine. With the news that I will be taking my first step onto the property ladder, I decided I had to be slightly more sensible with what came next, as it will likely have to be a daily driver throughout this winter and into next year whilst I get my finances sorted. I also decided I fancied another convertible, after selling an MG TF last year.

Clearly I haven’t learnt the lesson from my M3 experience, as I’ve gone and got myself a 2011 640i convertible. I’ve always liked this generation of 5 & 6 series, and this was for sale at an excellent price. It has a HUD and comfort seats & a reverse camera and a cream interior as part of the options list, and it’s an awful lot of car for £9k! Here’s hoping my second BMW is less trouble than the first!

[Ry.Clarke]

Very brave choice as an upcoming home owner, I hope that £9k was merely a skim off the savings pile or I suspect stress in your future.

Nice spec tho.

[danb79]

dtulip8 said:

So for those of you that followed my short ownership of an E92 M3, it didn t end well! Car ended up with bore score following suspected injector failure so I punted it on for a small loss to someone who will rebuild the engine. With the news that I will be taking my first step onto the property ladder, I decided I had to be slightly more sensible with what came next, as it will likely have to be a daily driver throughout this winter and into next year whilst I get my finances sorted. I also decided I fancied another convertible, after selling an MG TF last year.

Clearly I haven t learnt the lesson from my M3 experience, as I ve gone and got myself a 2011 640i convertible. I ve always liked this generation of 5 & 6 series, and this was for sale at an excellent price. It has a HUD and comfort seats & a reverse camera and a cream interior as part of the options list, and it s an awful lot of car for £9k! Here s hoping my second BMW is less trouble than the first!

That should be a good buy; the N55s a superb engine

It's a 640i GC I'm hankering after as a replacement for my 130i - if/when I decide to sell it on

[Pizzaeatingking]

Lovely! I never realised they put the N55 in a 40i, always assumed any 40i was a B58. Hope it serves you better than the M3 unfortunately did.

[CornedBeef]

More pictures please

[WelshPetrolhead]

That looks lovely. I hope you have better luck this time around!

[cerb4.5lee]

Wishing you all the best with it. Enjoy it.

[Mr Tidy]

After your bad luck with your M3 I hope your 640i treats you well.

It looks like a lot of car for the money!

[Tommie38]

MHD or BM3 HTH.

[speciald]

What a buy for £9k! Good luck with it.

[119]

Always fancied one of these until I drove one and just felt a tad hemmed in.

[cerb4.5lee]

119 said:

Always fancied one of these until I drove one and just felt a tad hemmed in.

My Mum always used to take the pee out of me with my driving position when we had the F13 640d Coupe. I had the seat reclined right back and I sat low in it. Thinking back now, I'm only 5'8" tall, so I did well to reach the pedals really!

[dtulip8]

Thanks for all the comments so far, it’s proving to be a nice old barge so far. Liking its effortless nature vs the M3. Took it for a pub run with a friend who’s just purchased an MX5, two very different approaches to the convertible idea!

[CypherP]

Lovely, and such a massive amount of car for £9k.

I had a 640d Coupe some years back and 3 cars on, I still pine after another. My personal opinion was that the run-flats made the ride far too harsh on anything other than fresh asphalt, so swapped them out for non-RFs and made sure I had a repair kit.

I'm going to head off and look at Auto Trader again and see if I can justify its complete lack of versatility compared to my G31 estate...

[dtulip8]

Absolutely loving the car so far, I just love convertible motoring when the weather is good. Small snag list to work through, needs a new battery for sure as getting the increased discharge warning when it sits for a few days, the trim behind the rear view mirror has broken so need that sorted and most annoying the AC is not working (always on the hottest days!). The comfort seats are ace now I’ve figured out the 4 million adjustments on them, and the low down torque of the N55 and the ZF8 box make for relaxing top down wafting!

[dtulip8]

CypherP said:

Lovely, and such a massive amount of car for £9k.

I had a 640d Coupe some years back and 3 cars on, I still pine after another. My personal opinion was that the run-flats made the ride far too harsh on anything other than fresh asphalt, so swapped them out for non-RFs and made sure I had a repair kit.

I'm going to head off and look at Auto Trader again and see if I can justify its complete lack of versatility compared to my G31 estate...

Definitely do! It’s one of my favourite aspects of the car that it’s the size of the QM2 and yet I can’t sit anyone in the back! I’m not finding it too hard to park either which is nice!

[cerb4.5lee]

dtulip8 said:

Absolutely loving the car so far, I just love convertible motoring when the weather is good. Small snag list to work through, needs a new battery for sure as getting the increased discharge warning when it sits for a few days, the trim behind the rear view mirror has broken so need that sorted and most annoying the AC is not working (always on the hottest days!). The comfort seats are ace now I ve figured out the 4 million adjustments on them, and the low down torque of the N55 and the ZF8 box make for relaxing top down wafting!

It is great to hear how much you're enjoying it.

Comfort seats are an absolute pain in the backside to get right at first I agree, but once right, they're lovely for sure.

[dtulip8]

A little bit of fettling on the car this week. New battery to stop it whining about increased discharge, message no longer appears so that’s sorted. For the first time ever on one of my cars, it just needs a regas M8 turned out to be true so I now have ice cold AC again. Finally, sorted out the missing bit of trim on the rear view mirror, so no more exposed wires!

[macron]

Was that missing trim a sign of a dashcam do you think?

[macron]

And mot check suggests you have an outstanding recall too, did you know? Or done and not updated yet?

I was assuming for 9k you had covered 120k+, hence was looking at the MOT incase you wondered, amazing it's a sensibly low mile car for that money, I think you stole it tbh!