BMW 535d - anyone got/had one?

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Having assured me the car came with 2 keys the dealer realised yesterday they only had one - so they've had to go to BMW to order another, which the chap sheepishly told me has cost them nearly £300 and he had to come in on his day off to sort it out.

Does that mean that somewhere out there someone has the key to your car? Not good as almost all high end car theft is with keys these days.

[Tomor]

You can get the old key knocked off the ecu so it won't work.

Sent from my magical portable device

[Luckypants]

Worth knowing, although that does make perfect sense.

[Littlepeahead]

Somehow when creating a new key they've managed to disable the not opening function of both keys. Grrrr. And I've just had to spend £5 buying Haribo and drumsticks and fizzy snakes for the sweetie compartment before giving the nephews a test drive. The younger one said 'You should have got an i8.' 5 year old petrol heads are the worst!

[Nobbylad]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Somehow when creating a new key they've managed to disable the not opening function of both keys. Grrrr. And I've just had to spend £5 buying Haribo and drumsticks and fizzy snakes for the sweetie compartment before giving the nephews a test drive. The younger one said 'You should have got an i8.' 5 year old petrol heads are the worst!

Should've made him walk home.

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

The 2 things I need to remember are that it's a diesel when I get to the petrol station and not too leave a half eaten Snickers in my handbag semi wrapped before chucking my bag onto the heated passenger seat.

My heated seats don't work unless someone is sat in them, I've tried it.

[Littlepeahead]

That's reassuring. I've also worked out they'd locked the boot via a button in the armrest so now the keys work. Got the sat nav sorted, managed to turn the heating down from a default of 25 degrees, connected the iPod, linked the mobile to Tunein for the cricket, stuck a sticker on the fuel cap that says diesel to remind me, eaten a Danish pastry so it's already full of crumbs, yep it feels like my car now.

[Red Herring]

Have you actually found time to operate that big round thing in front of the driver yet.....

[Littlepeahead]

Oh yeah, drove to Winchester and back today for an off road bike day. So done a few hundred miles already.