Hi all
My name is Andy and I own a 2002 S54 which is currently being discussed in a thread started by my mate who has shown an interest in buying it.
The car was owned for many years by my Dad who died suddenly in 2015 and I then inherited it in 2016.
I’ve always been into cars and loved the M Coupe as soon as it came out, my Dad had never had an interest in cars and didn’t take much notice each time I showed him magazine reviews of it at the time. If I’d had the money I’d of bought one but instead I bought a brand new Impreza.
A couple of years later my Dad came back from a shooting trip in Germany and said he’d seen a car that he really liked. He had a brochure for the M Coupe! I said that’s the car I really like and had been going on about for Years. He said I hadn’t and he’d never seen one before going to Germany lol!. This was funny as I know it was me that planted the seed!. So in 2004 we set about finding one and in 2005 he bought a 2002 S54 with quite a few AC Schnitzer parts. It had 19 inch type 3 2 piece wheels, shocks and springs, flippers, rear spoiler, fog lights, pedals and mats.
It was on around 35k at the time and had recently had a new engine under warranty from BMW, the original had bearing failure. My dad phoned the dealer that did it who confirmed it had a new Crate engine.
My Dad mot’d it each year and only did a couple of hundred miles in it going to his clay pigeon shoots before putting it away for the winter.
It never failed an mot and the only advisories it ever had were for slightly corroded discs and for having the tyre pressure monitoring lamp lit which had come on a couple of years after buying it. My Dad did try and get a BMW Main dealer to fix the system but they were unable to. I’d previously followed the manual to try and reset as the tyre pressures were correct but nothing happened.
After I inherited it I was giving it a check over in the garage prior to mot’ing it when I noticed the fog lights didn’t work when I pressed the additional button in the centre console next to the air con switch. We’d presumed this switch was for the fog lights.
I’d spotted the additional relay in the engine bay so followed the trigger wire inside to behind the dash and was I bit confused when it ran past the centre console to the driver side and to the reset button for the tyre pressure monitoring system. When I pressed the reset button the fog lights turned on! For some reason the BMW dealer had wired the fogs to the tyre pressure system reset button.
Then I thought I wonder if the extra button on the centre console which we’d thought was for the fogs was actually now for the tyre system so I pressed it and sure enough the tyre pressure lamp reset, so my Dad had been driving around for 8 years with the lamp on thinking the system was at fault when it was just this other button that needed pressing. It was a shame he died before I discovered it! Anybody know why it was done like this?
I used it for a year in 2017 but then bought a new house which takes a lot of upkeep and I also work loads of overtime ( well I did before covid ) and have lots of other cars and bikes, so like a lot of M Coupes it’s taken a bit of a back seat but I was going to use it again this year and I’d got it out for a wash when my friend came round and showed an interest. I currently don’t know what to do as I wasn’t planning on selling!
I’ll reply to the other thread and maybe you guys can help me decide!
Andy
My name is Andy and I own a 2002 S54 which is currently being discussed in a thread started by my mate who has shown an interest in buying it.
The car was owned for many years by my Dad who died suddenly in 2015 and I then inherited it in 2016.
I’ve always been into cars and loved the M Coupe as soon as it came out, my Dad had never had an interest in cars and didn’t take much notice each time I showed him magazine reviews of it at the time. If I’d had the money I’d of bought one but instead I bought a brand new Impreza.
A couple of years later my Dad came back from a shooting trip in Germany and said he’d seen a car that he really liked. He had a brochure for the M Coupe! I said that’s the car I really like and had been going on about for Years. He said I hadn’t and he’d never seen one before going to Germany lol!. This was funny as I know it was me that planted the seed!. So in 2004 we set about finding one and in 2005 he bought a 2002 S54 with quite a few AC Schnitzer parts. It had 19 inch type 3 2 piece wheels, shocks and springs, flippers, rear spoiler, fog lights, pedals and mats.
It was on around 35k at the time and had recently had a new engine under warranty from BMW, the original had bearing failure. My dad phoned the dealer that did it who confirmed it had a new Crate engine.
My Dad mot’d it each year and only did a couple of hundred miles in it going to his clay pigeon shoots before putting it away for the winter.
It never failed an mot and the only advisories it ever had were for slightly corroded discs and for having the tyre pressure monitoring lamp lit which had come on a couple of years after buying it. My Dad did try and get a BMW Main dealer to fix the system but they were unable to. I’d previously followed the manual to try and reset as the tyre pressures were correct but nothing happened.
After I inherited it I was giving it a check over in the garage prior to mot’ing it when I noticed the fog lights didn’t work when I pressed the additional button in the centre console next to the air con switch. We’d presumed this switch was for the fog lights.
I’d spotted the additional relay in the engine bay so followed the trigger wire inside to behind the dash and was I bit confused when it ran past the centre console to the driver side and to the reset button for the tyre pressure monitoring system. When I pressed the reset button the fog lights turned on! For some reason the BMW dealer had wired the fogs to the tyre pressure system reset button.
Then I thought I wonder if the extra button on the centre console which we’d thought was for the fogs was actually now for the tyre system so I pressed it and sure enough the tyre pressure lamp reset, so my Dad had been driving around for 8 years with the lamp on thinking the system was at fault when it was just this other button that needed pressing. It was a shame he died before I discovered it! Anybody know why it was done like this?
I used it for a year in 2017 but then bought a new house which takes a lot of upkeep and I also work loads of overtime ( well I did before covid ) and have lots of other cars and bikes, so like a lot of M Coupes it’s taken a bit of a back seat but I was going to use it again this year and I’d got it out for a wash when my friend came round and showed an interest. I currently don’t know what to do as I wasn’t planning on selling!
I’ll reply to the other thread and maybe you guys can help me decide!
Andy
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