I Bought a Lemon Buyback BMW X6M and got 50% off because of a Mystery Electrical Issue

1. Even though I got 50% off on this BMW M Car, it's extremely unreliable. A much better deal would've been 50% or MORE off of a Simplisafe Security System during their biggest sale of the year. Visit https://SimpliSafe.com/samcrac to learn more!

2. Love your videos brother very informative and nice learning lessons

3. K-CAN is the "body" CAN bus (K for Karosserie, which is car body in German). Contrast with the PT-CAN (powertrain) and F-CAN and others.

4. This car is acting like someone hooked up a battery backward. That will cause all sorts of electrical gremlins to present. Best of luck with it.

5. Something is injecting noise into the electrical system. Either a soft short in the dash electronics, ground fault or noise injected into the system. I would check continuity (and resistance) on grounds, check for voltage droop on the electronics as things are connected and disconnected.

6. I had a ‘93 del Sol that randomly wouldn’t start; just dead. Wait three minutes, may start just fine. Found online a certain relay with faulty cold solder joints. Looked at the mini board on mine with a loupe and sure enough, broken solder. I was later able to fix a thousand dollar laser printer the same way and my plug in acoustic guitar!

7. Step one, check all power and grounds…including all ground splices.

8. Your past my skill level. Id replace the relay. I dont have the schematics. wouldnt understand it anyways.

9. I would like to see what you come up with

10. When I saw the aftermarket oil cap and grille, I thought "boy racer has been playing with this car".
    Not a good sign, right at the start.

11. I had my chimes disabled…

12. Are those Ray-Ban 4151’s?

13. very good show !!! And yes I did learn to stick with Porsche and stay away from BMW ))))

14. It's possessed 😂😂

15. BMW for you….Break My Wallet

16. Hiya have you told the car its had a battery as bmw can over charch as battery gets older

17. So pull your finger out and check the ground for that junction box in the rear!

18. Wild

19. Bling

20. I fixed one of their 12 cylinder models from the 90's, pre obd 2. The dealer did the top end then couldn't get it to pass smog. They wrote on the receipt "abandoning project". They claimed animals must have gotten to the wiring but there was nothing like like visible. I was asked to get it to pass smog. Owner had taken it 50 miles north to an independent pecialist, got nothing. Took it 50 miles east to another, still nothing. When it finally came to me it running only on the left side. I Switched computers, air flow sensors from left to right. No change. Put it on the rack, pulled the oxygen sensors. Passenger side was fouled along with passenger side plugs. Cleaned the plugs and sensor with brake cleaner – fixed although the passenger side catalytic converter needed replacement due to over rich mixture. I couldn't believe how it lifted when it was floored at about 50 mph on the freeway. Owner thought it ran fine while it was running on six cylinders. The plugs and the sensor were both new, installed during dealer attempt.

21. The green tinge on the blinker relay is copper oxide. Loose connections with high current causes this (no moisture is necessary) so something must be loose…

22. Considering there was 90K miles on it and I can see a ton of after market crap on that (the grill, the paddle shifters, the oil cap). I bet the owner installed something that messed up the electrical system and then BMW wasn’t able to figure it out so had to buy it back under just before the warranty was up. I guarantee when you find the issue it’s going to be some dumb user error thing or him trying to install some stupid under glow or something else dumb.

23. Mystery Electrical Issues have been a mandatory no cost BMW option for quite a few decades.

24. Wow ..a beemer indicating flasher working…must be faulty

25. BMW's ? you couldn't even give me one… but thank you Sam for these videos.

26. Fun Man! Well done , always a good watch!

27. You look like my Jewish family and friends in L. A.. My maternal grandmother was the Baroness Von Close but died when my mom was 8 years old so I never got to know her. Am also a car buff and have had everything from a 75 Eldorado convertible to SL 550. Been enjoying your channel and wanting to start shopping for bargains like you and start enlarging my collection! 😎

28. I once experienced a similar thing wuth a chev cruze after swapping the engine. Tuns out to be the relay

29. Such an interesting channel, love your videos Sam. I’ve learnt a lot….. especially NOT to buy a BMW 😂

30. I WISH SAMCRAc gave me some 200 dollars he got too much and iam deported from usa n broke as shit

31. I don't get it. Aren't we supposed to fast forward the advertising segment and get to video. I've sat through every advertising segment time after time and enjoyed it. Dammit I want to buy something now. I'd buy hair cutting products from this guy and I'm bald. Not fair !

32. So many faulty codes. 100s of errors. That reminds me When we compile C++ programs one simple syntax mistake cause few 100 errors because each module calls that function throws many errors. As a beginner it seems that never ending problem, but once that syntax is fixed all errors are gone.

33. How much !!!! That’s always the wanting to know answer 😂😭 how Much did you pay ! Please 😢 I gotta know

34. The relay was definitely wet…If you have seen a board that has had water on it and it ran its the same think…

35. This BMW needs an exorcist. Common electrical probs with BMW's.

36. Go watch what Tyler did to his, lol.

37. Yes I learn that not to buy a BMW..from Scotty kilmer…!

38. A real rabbit hole video!

39. I learned something, don’t buy European cars!

40. X6M ??? Where are the breaks from it ?

41. Bmw expensive garbage

42. 40 seconds in, and I'm getting flashbacks from an E34 I used to have that would give me the same problem. It turned out to be the grounding wire connected to the chassis.
    I also had somewhat of similar issues on an E38 which turned out to be a worn out voltage regulator.

43. Def a CAN issue… Going maaaaaad.

44. The proper term for that stuff on the relay is " bunga "

45. I THINK THAT TOO MANY ELECTRONICS HAVE RUINED MANY CARS !!!!¡¡¡¡

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