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Tassie6er

Post by Tassie6er »

Hey what a gem!

Having lived in Dublin for a number of years, I can happily say there are plenty of nearby roads to enjoy such a machine.

Regards,

Becher
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welcome from Puerto Rico , great shark you have there.
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Post by Bayerische »

Thanks guys for your kind words,

Becher there are some good driving roads in Dublin but they are full of traffic now, I wiil have to take her for a blast over to the west coast, some proper driving roads there.

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Post by horsetan »

Bayerische wrote:....I wiil have to take her for a blast over to the west coast, some proper driving roads there.
The run from Westport to Achill Sound via Newport and Mulrany is a very good one, followed immediately by the run from Achill Sound to the strand at Keem Bay 8) ...... near where I discovered a Trabant P601S estate sitting abandoned in a field!!

Also the run from Westport to Donegal Town via Crossmolina, Ballina, Sligo, Bundoran, Ballyshannon is just grand :D

In Co. Clare, the hairpin(s) above Ballyvaughan are entertaining in the winter!
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Post by 635_Miles »

All this chat about Irish roads makes me want to pop across for a holiday, obviously a good excuse to get the car out!

I've got good memories of hurtling up in a friend's X5 from Dublin to Co. Cavan a few years ago - the same trip that I proposed to my (now) wife :)
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Tassie6er

Post by Tassie6er »

So horsetan, I see pictures of your fine beast elsewhere on this site parked in what looks like an area better suited to horses and then all this talk about Clare - so obviously you are Clare man....

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Post by Bayerische »

Thanks for posting Lucky6, it looks like a very nice car. I wonder how much of a premium will be paid for its "last one" status or will it go for the same money as a normal 97000 mile six in good condition. I know when I was buying my car the fact that it was the last M6 it had no bearing on the price.

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Post by Bayerische »

After 5 months of waiting, I finally received my electric head rest motor, worm drive and assembly. The part is now being remanufactured by BMW's supplier due to demand and had been on back order in Germany til now. This is good news for anyone with electric seats as it is a common weak point. I will fit it in to the car over the weekend, it looks fairly straight forward.

I tried the headrest fix that is posted on this site but just could not get it to work. The part comes as one complete unit and is 195euro/?140stg.
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Post by Chris Wright »

Good Info! ... but could you get a bigger photo next time, at 1.3 MB, I couldn't quite make out the molecular structure of the metal! :wink: 8)
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Post by Bayerische »

I know, I was getting a headache looking at it, computers are not my strong point, what did I do wrong?
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Post by ron »

Bayerische wrote:After 5 months of waiting, I finally received my electric head rest motor, worm drive and assembly. The part is now being remanufactured by BMW's supplier due to demand and had been on back order in Germany til now. This is good news for anyone with electric seats as it is a common weak point. I will fit it in to the car over the weekend, it looks fairly straight forward.

I tried the headrest fix that is posted on this site but just could not get it to work. The part comes as one complete unit and is 195euro/?140stg.
You should have put a "wanted" ad. on the site.I've got a couple of spares

Ron.
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Post by PRJTGRMN_E24 »

where were u able to find that part? i need one for my passenger seat!
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Post by Bayerische »

I got it from my local BMW dealer, you should be able to order it now through the dealer network. It was unavailable new for quite a while but is now being remanufactured again through Mobile Tradition I guess.

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Post by Bayerische »

ron wrote:
Bayerische wrote:After 5 months of waiting, I finally received my electric head rest motor, worm drive and assembly. The part is now being remanufactured by BMW's supplier due to demand and had been on back order in Germany til now. This is good news for anyone with electric seats as it is a common weak point. I will fit it in to the car over the weekend, it looks fairly straight forward.

I tried the headrest fix that is posted on this site but just could not get it to work. The part comes as one complete unit and is 195euro/?140stg.
You should have put a "wanted" ad. on the site.I've got a couple of spares

Ron.

Thanks Ron,

I will know better next time.
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Post by Bayerische »

I fitted my new headrest motor today and it is working great.

I took the car for a spin and took some more photos.
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Post by hoadie »

Glad you got your headrests fitted but you need to drop the resolution of your pics before posting. Your photo editing program will have a resize option. Or if you post them on a website like photobucket it will resize them for you.
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Post by Bayerische »

Thanks Hoadie,

I resized the photos in the previous post.

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Post by Bayerische »

Some more photos of 0760524

Enjoy
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Post by Bayerische »

And some more
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Post by Bayerische »

One more
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Picture 050 is "Such" a screensaver....LOL! Nice.... :D
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During the limited miles that I have driven in my six she has performed brilliantly and has not missed a beat. There were however, some items that did need attending to.

The first was a new viscous coupling as the temp gauge was showing the engine to be getting hot when the car was stopped with the engine idling. A quick test of the coupling showed it to be knackered.

The second thing, which was purly cosmetic in nature, was my lower seatbelt connections. The red buttons had turned a pale pink colour (which happens to all sixes) and looked tatty. I know some of you may see this as being a touch anal, but as the rest of the car is in such good order, I felt the seatbelts were letting the car down. I ordered all of the bits from my local BMW dealer with a 10% discount for being a BMWCC member.

I have had the parts in the boot (trunk) of the car for a few weeks now but only got round to fitting them today and yesterday. The engine temp is now fine at idle and the new seatbelts make a huge difference on the overall appearance of the interior.
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Seat belt parts. Not Cheap!!
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Post by Bayerische »

Before and after photos of seatbelts
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Rear seats out, all looked good.
Rear seats out, all looked good.
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Post by Bayerische »

More before and after shots
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