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Fox, you had a 5'er before the 335i right? I'm thinking back to EvoT days here! What is the new one? more pics please (or I could trawl through the 439 pages of this thread of course......)

As posted in the 335i thread in this section, JB4 tuning box is incredible. I don't want to post any links to it, pretty sure that's against rules?? anyways, google it. Can be had for sub £400 and is awesome.

Fitting takes about 30mins or so and is easily removed. You control the map(s) and other options such as CAN flaps open / closed (opens up the 2nd exhaust when revs are low rather than having it closed as standard, increases the noise really) and you can set shift lights to come on etc. I've even got my fuel gauge set as a boost gauge now (only when running in a map mode, you can revert to 'standard' with a couple of button pushes and it saves all your 'in map' settings)

335i owners I encourage you to read up on it :)
 
shaank said:
Fox, you had a 5'er before the 335i right? I'm thinking back to EvoT days here! What is the new one? more pics please (or I could trawl through the 439 pages of this thread of course......
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His "new" 5 is his "old" 5, as he never got rid of it during his 335i ownership.

So, it's still an e39 530i :)
 
Logsi said:
Looking at e39 530i's and all the really low mileage ones are automatic. :(
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Thats because only 450 of them are manuals (Assuming you want a Sport) and you are making it even harder for yourself by trying to find a 'really low mileage' example of a car which is between 9 and 12 years old?
 
One of my cars:

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Gaygle said:
Lovely ^^ (the 335i). Not sure on the tints though :/

What colour interior? iDrive? Manual/automatic? Cost? Got anything planned for it?
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Gaygle,

Spec and options list, came pretty well specced:

Model Z3D4 E92 335i M Sport Coupe N54 3.0
Colour 475 Black Sapphire Metallic
Upholstery LCSW Black Dakota leather
Option Z4F SA3 Pricing Rule for 620 Voice Control
Option 2MP 19" M Double-spoke style 225M alloy wheel
Option 249 Multi-function controls for s'wheel
Option 4AD Brushed Aluminium Trim
Option 430 Ext. mirrors - folding. auto dimming
Option 488 Lumbar support. driver and front pass.
Option 493 Extended storage
Option 494 Seat heating. front
Option 508 Park Distance Control (PDC). front and r
Option 6FL USB audio interface
Option 609 Navigation-system Professional
Option 612 BMW Assist
Option 616 BMW Assist online portal
Option 620 Voice Control
Option 633 Bluetooth phone prep + telematics
Option 654 DAB digital radio
Option 676 Loudspeaker system - BMW Business
Option 761 Sun protection glass


I'm assuming that last one is the rear window tints?

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[TW]Fox;20949672 said:
Thats because only 450 of them are manuals (Assuming you want a Sport) and you are making it even harder for yourself by trying to find a 'really low mileage' example of a car which is between 9 and 12 years old?
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Ahaaa. Didn't realise that!

Were most automatic? When i say low mileage i'm talking around 50-60k. Have a friend on the lookout for one.
 
T here were 2500ish automatics registered.

If you want a 50k mile car you are looking at cars that have done on average 5k or less per year. There will be a miniscule amount of cars for which this is case, and even fewer will be for sale. It's going to be like looking for a needle in the world's largest haystack. How many people do you think spent £35,000 on a big executive saloon and then barely used them? A few people but not many. Most of the old guys who bought this sort of car and never used it bought an SE not a Sport.

What's more I'm not even sure what the point of it is. An ultra low mileage E39 isn't going to protect you against bills and neither is it going to be a world away condition wise from cars with higher mileage. I sourced a low mileage 530i Sport Touring (Under 60k) for my parents but only by co-incidence, I didn't care what the mileage was and it happened to appear. Compared to my lolmileage example there is little to tell them apart on the inside - my driver's seat is a bit more worn, my passenger/rear seats are infact far less worn and generally my interior is a nicer despite having 3 times the mileage (My rear seats still look virtually as new!). Externally mine is better as well. Infact the wear is consistent with what you'd expect on a car that's spent almost 10 years popping into town etc with its single owner from new. Tidy but not immaculate.

IMHO the key to a nice E39 is finding a rare 1 owner car and not necessarily a low miler. Whatever you buy you must accept these are 9-12 year old BMW's and WILL require bits and bobs replacing to freshen them up and will drop bills in the future. The way to avoid a shed is to ignore the 3-5 owner cars with cheap tyres, cheap servicing or dodgy mods and not fixate on the mileage.

If you are obsessive about low mileage buy something much newer as that's the only easy way to get low mileage.
 
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