Just joined, Kevin, Troon Scotland Z4 2.5

[PHILIP BAXTER]

Hi Kevin, and welcome from Cardiff. Enjoy the forum.

 

[Kevin Wood]

Thanks Phil, I am sure I will.

 

[t-tony]

Hey Kev, welcome from me too down near Lincoln. Mine's a Sterling Grey Z4 3.0i Auto, and I love it, it's great car. I see oil filters in that condition regularly on Corsas, and others. Just been left too long. I would've put some flush through before changing your oil and filter, maybe you did?

Tony.

 

[Kevin Wood]

Hi Tony, unfortunately did not as I did not realise how bad it was and too late to get to the shops. Oil was warm so hopefully most of the sludge will have come out, but you live and learn. This is my fun car as I have a Citreon DS5 ( sorry!) as a main car and will use the zed for daily commuting and fun driving. So I will enjoy the ride to and from work and not worry too much about the hours in between!!

 

[t-tony]

Mine's daily use car too mate and it's about the only thing that makes going to work bearable if I'm honest.

Tony.

 

[raymond]

Hello. The key has a rechargeable battery that charges from the ignition and the rechargeable battery may have failed.

 

[Kevin Wood]

Mine's daily use car too mate and it's about the only thing that makes going to work bearable if I'm honest.

Tony.

Yes, so true!!

 

[Kevin Wood]

Hello. The key has a rechargeable battery that charges from the ignition and the rechargeable battery may have failed.

Thanks Ray, will look at getting a replacement,

 

[t-tony]

It could be that the seller has only just started to use this key for some reason. The way I understand it is you should rotate the use of your keys to keep them "charged".

Tony.

 

[Mint]

Hi @Kevin Wood, to the forum from me too in Staffordshire.

 

[Shelly]

Hi and welcome from me too

 

[Kevin Wood]

It could be that the seller has only just started to use this key for some reason. The way I understand it is you should rotate the use of your keys to keep them "charged".

Tony.

Thanks Tony, weird thing is that I know the seller bought a new key for the car last year but did not give it over, so the key is an original one when the car was new. It was a 500 mile drive to get the car home, so should have charged up, so looks like a replacement battery and a new key from BMW (after pay day!!) is in order.

 

[Kevin Wood]

Hi and welcome from me too

Hiya Shelly!

 

[t-tony]

Thanks Tony, weird thing is that I know the seller bought a new key for the car last year but did not give it over, so the key is an original one when the car was new. It was a 500 mile drive to get the car home, so should have charged up, so looks like a replacement battery and a new key from BMW (after pay day!!) is in order.

Why did he not want to give you the "new" key Kev, seems very strange to me, I would be making sure the car is secure (but then I can be very suspicious) lol.

Tony.

 

[mwpe]

Hi Kevin and welcome from Surrey, sounds like your car is going to get some well needed TLC.

 

[Grumps]

Hello from mansfield. Appears the car hasn't seen much love recently. Sounds like your the man to get it back up spec.

 

[billz]

Welcome from a fellow Z4 owner. Once you get on top of it, it will be easier to maintain and keep looking good

 

[Kevin Wood]

Why did he not want to give you the "new" key Kev, seems very strange to me, I would be making sure the car is secure (but then I can be very suspicious) lol.

Tony.

Thanks Tony, true, but he has a long drive (500 miles or so) to get to me and the car in a garage. Does seem strange as the key would be useless to him.....

 

[billz]

Have you tried to reprogram the key. I had issues with ours and when i did the reprogramming it seems to have cured it. Now both my keys work fine.

 

[Antm72]

Hi Kevin looks like you have a little work to do ! Saying that its half the fun in my book
Enjoy ....