My New 535d

A few days after the accident, my wife and I were due to make a road trip to the south of England to visit our daughter. Fortunately the hire car provided by the insurance company, a BMW 3 series Touring, allowed us to keep those plans. It also presented us with an opportunity…

Since we were travelling the full length of the country from central Scotland to Chippenham, I searched for potential 535d replacements along the route. Unfortunately the 535d E61 is pretty rare so I only came up with three potential candidates. One near Bristol, one near Slough and one near Bolton. In fact the one near Bolton only came on the market the day we started back home.

The one near Bristol was a pretty basic spec and didn’t even have Xenon headlights so I didn’t bother going to see it but I made an appointment to see the one near Slough. We even got half way along the M4 before I got a call to say it was sold! Oh well…

I then called the dealer near Bolton to see if I could come and see his car the following day and we made arrangements. I viewed the car and took it for a drive and we did the deal!

Just arrived home with the Silver 535d with my other 535d sitting behind it and the insurance hire car in the background.

Having the silver 535d takes the time pressure away from the repair process of the white one which turned out to be important as the Covid-19 lockdown descended on us a few weeks later.

I’ll talk more about the silver 535d at a later date but it’s basically the same car albeit a year older and with fewer miles. I plan to do a similar online logbook for it in due course so watch this space!