M6 advice

Basically buying advice is very similar to any other six. Look for rust in wings, jacking points and floor pan. The car should have all documents and fsh. They need timing chains done at around the 100k mile mark and this is a £1200-£2000 job. There are basically two looks of M6 that you can have either a chrome bumper of a highline bumper version. I would recomend a chrome bumper as i prefere the look and they are 200KG lighter making them considerable quicker. But  that is a matter of personel taste. The brakes on them are uprated from a standard six, but the six is a heavy car and do suffer from brake fade. The car should have a firm ride and should be 20mm lower than a standard six. They were all Manual gear boxes and are basically are overdrive units. The throw is long, but should have no slack if so the linkage is shot, but this is inexspensive to fix. The suspension is uprated with Bilsteins all round and harder bushes. No component is to exspensive, but they will probable need doing so have a look at the history file and see what has been done. Headlamp wash wipes never work so if you find one that does you are very lucky. Exhaust are very exspensive, but Stanless steels are available. The worst thing about the sixes are the metric tyres. They don't grip well, are very noisey and cost £250 per corner. If the car needs tyres you want to get some standard wheels in 16 or 17"'s. However most sixes owners have changed the wheels. I would however recomend keeping them as people like them for originality. Basically if you want to get a good m635 you want to pay proper money for one that has had lots of money spent on it. I know they are exspensive, but Munich Legends have some excellent sixes and would be a good point of reference.

Hope this is usefull,

James

P.S. Any more questions fire away