After 3 years in a Sharan, then 5 years riding in a New Alhambra, I wanted now 'ns something else. A car with a bit more character and Adaptive Cruise Control. The choice fell on a Ford S-MAX or a BMW 5 touring. Since the ACC BMW as the best from the (German) tests were eventually chosen for BMW. I also did not want a new one - too much aggregation. So it had to be a 2nd hand ... And that was not easy. and affordable (budget: up to € 40,000), and not too many km's on the clock. First to BMW Laarhoven been in Eindhoven, but they were not interested to give me such a car.
After 0.5 years finally 525D search found at dealers in Germany. Over the phone completed the price, then go look at the car and then arranged the import via importautos.nl and send for the car. Then it turned out that the car was delivered under the BMW Premium conditions ... so was one year warranty and includes 60,000 km turn. Then I myself went to the RDW. Entire process took +/- 1 month. This route I recommend everyone: German car companies are super reliable and the choice is huge. Then built in alarm and paintwork work out. And all well within budget!
And then drive it ... Unbelievable how many bells and whistles sit on this car. I am now almost through the stack (German speaking) guides go ...
The most notable cases.
- Pitter 6 with 6-speed automatic. Never driven a diesel machine that drives and turns as smoothly. What a great car!
- ACC. A pleasure! Incomprehensible that this feature is so unknown in the Netherlands. You drive so much quieter and it saves a whole lot of frustration!
- Xenon lighting. In GB I do not add much, but on German motorways is a pleasure. Just evening 180-190 relaxed driving without each time having to do with your great light.
- Comfort seats including half leather upholstery and heated seats. I never knew that so many buttons you can have a seat. I think there are as many as 10 engines in each chair to fit everything in. A discovery!
- Electric retractable towbar. Here I had never heard of. This option I could not imagine.
- Professional navigation. Works well, but too bad that the system still works and DVDs instead of hard disk pity that the cards do not max. Show speeds. Two features that were already in my 5 year old MIO. What is a delight, is the big screen. Much more control you have here.
- I thoroughly informed if it is possible to add the NL language. Ultimately, this appears to be for about € 150, but the (speaking) voice control which is also inserted, it does not anymore. By now I am used to the English menu, so I decided not to do this anymore.
The consumption of 6 pitter any case is me. Similar to the 140hp 4 pitter the Alhambra. I consider the engine to tune now-so he's still going to run some more economical and being a little spicier. Does anybody have experience with this?
The first turn is over! (82,500 km)
After having ridden a good half year, a brief update.
I did not let tune the car (yet). He is still in the warranty and after a lot of (nonsense) are about to read, I'm still not convinced whether it is or is not good for cars to do so. My dealer recommends it.
After having driven about 2 months along, I found out that the air conditioning did not. Above 4x went to the garage to fix the problem. Obviously a warranty issue, but in the Netherlands BMW does not understand how it works with German cars. For those who consider it a buy with warranty see www.vdstoel.nl for my tips and experiences with my BMW dealer and the lengthy discussions I've had with this BMW Netherlands.
Meanwhile over topbanden.com 4 new summer tires (Pirelli P7 runflat) and 4 new winter tires (runflat Nokiam) bought.
The car has recently had its first turn at BMW Laarhoven in Eindhoven. And then show a 6-cylinder diesel still somewhat more expensive to maintain than a 4-cylinder, because I had some € 600 tick off.
Also, I recently had my first injury: a car gave him a kiss. " Just a little too enthusiastic, but the staff of bodyshop Mikkers swarmed were proud that such a beautiful car, they again were impeccably trimming. And I on them, because they did it neatly.
What is planned for the coming months? Not much, just maybe a better set of speakers. The bass is very bad in the standard hi-fi set. Did someone perhaps good suggestions?
The winter (93,000 km)
The winter began for me with new winter tires. After extensive googling, I went to Topbanden.com for Nokiam set 'specifically for BMW 5 series. This I knew: I have never had such bad tires. With a little speed driving through a curve and immediately the traction control intervened. I then advised by Tires Service Eight put on the rear wheels and Continental tires have problem was solved. Lesson: a BMW is a luxury car, they just need expensive tires. Not to cut so.
Just before Christmas I decided to tune the engine after this still have discussed 'ns Marijn Pike Fleet Access in Nuenen. This I can highly recommend it: the car goes a lot smoother running, you just feel the extra horsepower. At temperatures above 9 degrees the motor is furthermore also run slightly more economical.
Well what do you want more? I sat me still annoyed by the lousy sound from the audio system. After much searching finally decided to put Gladen ONE BMW Pack 1 it. it costs something, but then you have some. An experienced mechanic of Fleet Access has been a day working on it because we thought it had to be replaced, the speaker wiring. But then you have something. What a great sound is now there.
And then it happened. When the 20 degrees below zero, I went one day and down to the north of the country and suddenly the car did not faster 120 km / h running. The turbo would still not be inflated by the tuning? After the engine off and having turned, he ran again as before. On inquiring at Fleet Access found that this is a security booth of the car. This was because I turned quickly after slowing quickly accellereerde on the highway. And this apparently could not quite keep up with the machine. Seems to be more common, but unfortunately, this phenomenon is not described in the manual of the car.
A trouble-ridden year (128,000 km)
The past year had no problems. For winter new Michelin winter tires (rear) purchased; Here I have had a lot of fun in Germany. I hope a long time to be able to drive this car, it remains a privilege to be able to drive such a nice car.
Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) is replaced (135,000 km)
2 weeks ago I suddenly got the message that there is something with the DPF was not good. Went to the garage, and they reported that the DPF is too full, making it no longer regenerates. Remedy: quite possibly succeeds to the liquid additive in the fuel to solve the problem, an alternative is replaced DPF. First the liquid but tried. Unfortunately without success.
What now? Replaced free of +/- € 1,800 (!) Incl. VAT. And this is not even at the dealership. Well, then just go googling. How others solved this? The options passed:
- Remove the DPF. Seemed like a good idea.
- DPF cleaned with a high pressure washer. Also seemed like a good idea.
- DPF replaced by a non-original model. Also seemed like a good idea.
- Cleaned DPF approved in an oven, TUV. This sounded good to me in the ears. 2 options: Via www.tunex.nl:. Cost € 435 inc VAT (they deliver Barten GmbH (http://www.russfilterreinigung.de) remanufactured filters Alternative:. Order itself overhauled filter at http: //www.dpf -clean.de (cost: € 599 including VAT, filter through swap dealer (+/- € 175 incl VAT) Therefore chose the option Tunex Fast and helped excellent, I can recommend this solution anyone....!
cleaning machine (140.000 km)
When I was at Tunex, I heard about the opportunity to clean the machine. This was highly recommended, since BMW has no schedule to replace the oil. With the possible result that the robot once breaks down at some point.
A new or refurbished machine is quite expensive, so err on the side of caution but accepted. Cost: € 395, I see it as insurance.
A few minor niggles (160,000 km)
2014, we got through reasonably smoothly. At the beginning of the year, a small turn, nothing special. At the end of the year some faults: the tweeters did not work correctly. They are replaced under warranty. Further worked right mirror no longer good. It also renewed. Finally jumped the window in the tailgate open regularly: fortunately no wiring problem, but the switch defect proved to be.
Oh yeah, there is also someone driving behind the car. Result: bumper replaced and a new electric, retractable towbar.
Replacing crankshaft (176,000 km) - overhaul
Hmm 2015 began with an expensive turn. Several strings had to be replaced, but the car also heard an unwanted sub sound at idle which pointed to the crankshaft pulley. This immediately even replaced. Total costs (including cleaning): around € 1,400! I would like to definitely keep driving for a year in this car, so I hope we do not get more surprises.
No comments:
Post a Comment