1987 635CSi D49 VMB Silver

Hello,

I'm new to the group and new to the world of 6er's having bought one last night. :o)

I'm trying to find out some history about the car as it only came with an (expired) MoT certificate and the V5. But, in the windscreen there was a "BMW Car Club" sticker, so *hopefully* it's known to someone here.

Here's a picture of it:



It's in fairly poor condition at the moment, but depending on how the MoT goes I'll see how much funds I have left to fix that.

So, was this your car once? Do you know who owned it? Any info at all would be interesting. Apparently it has recently had a new (recon most likely) auto box and torque converter. There was also some talk of suspension work, but the seller wasn't too knowledgable about the car, so I don't know. The car's done about 127k miles. It's currently with a BMW specialist in High Wycombe, so wish me luck for the MoT! :)



Regards,
Jules.

'89 944 Turbo SE
'83 924 Lux 140bhp
'87 635CSi

Edited by zzpza

Hi,

I'm afraid the picture is a bit deceptive... :( Both front wings are shot and the rear arches are bubbling on both sides. The n/s/f inner wing is going to need some welding too. But other than that, it's pretty sound.

Hopefully it won't give my wallet too much of a hammering going through the MoT.



The car was last services at "Elland Tyre & Exhausts" on 3/10/2002.



Regards,
Jules.

'89 944 Turbo SE
'83 924 Lux 140bhp
'87 635CSi


Edited by zzpza

the specialist it's with has a 6er he's breaking and the wings are in salvageable condition on it. the rear's haven't gone too far, so i'll probably do them myself. i got the car for a song, so i don't mind spending a bit of ca$h on it. but not too much... i've fallen into that trap before. ;)

thanks for welcoming me to the board.

jules
'89 944 Turbo SE
'83 924 Lux 140bhp
'87 635CSi


Edited by zzpza

Howard wrote: I have sent Jules full details of its life as my wife's shopping car. Hope its new owner has as much fun with it as she had. Now she has to drive an E30 320i, she is in less danger of getting caught in a speed trap.

I was wondering where I'd seen it...

A quick update on the car...

Firstly, thank you very much for the info Howard, it expands a great deal on the info the PO gave me. He didn't mention what was done to the rear suspension, only that it had some suspension work done.

As I said above, the car's away being MoT'd at the moment. The preliminary findings are pretty good considering how little I bought the car for:

rusted inner n/s/f wheel arch, next to battery
shot o/s track rod end
minor electrical fault causing the n/s tail & side light not to work
smashed front number plate
brakes badly in need of bleeding

There's also a bit of rust on the o/s sill that's going to be corrected and both front wings being replaced with ones from a donor car. Hopefully I'll have the car back next w/end.

Kevin, thanks for the invite. Hopefully I'll have the car back by then. :) I have a couple of friends with E32's that I'll try and convince to come along too. :)

Thanx,
Jules.
'89 944 Turbo SE
'83 924 Lux 140bhp
'87 635CSi

hi

i just got the car back last night! :)

one big problem though... when i bought the car it had no battery. the po had disposed of it when it went flat. i took along an old spare one i happened to have. however it was from a  porsche 924 and it's just not up to the job to cranking a big six. i need to get to my extra cheap motor factors before 2pm if i want to get a new battery today, the problem is i don't know what capacity (Ah) it should have!

i have no handbook for the car and all the google bmw web site searches i do only return info in the si batteries... :(

can anyone help??

thanks!
jules.

kevin wrote: Halfords generally have a full specification/application list. I would have thought that a motor factors would be able to look up the correct spec as the physical size can be just as important as the capacity.

Didn't stop a spotty Herbert at Halfords once selling me the wrong physical size battery for my E32.

from 1988 onward it became 75AH battery P/N 61 21 1 370 528.