FAO Fox: Buying a E39 530i Sport

Time really, that and I'm not sure I have the correct tools in my arsenal at the moment. Although my neighbour's a mechanic...

I'll see what the mechanic says tomorrow anyway, he has been very cheap for me in the past.
 
Amazing, only 46k miles but 'no service history' as he 'services it privately'

Really, and what did the other 3 previous owners do? Even the bloke who bought it new never had it serviced either did he? And thats a very squashed seat bolster for such a low mileage car. Even my 200k miler doesnt have one like that.

Sigh. Aagean Blue edition as well, only 150 of them :(
 
Lol M5 badge is soooo much worse than just an M badge. Tw@.

Siiigh - I'd rescue the M-parallels, extended leather bits and powerfold mirrors and give them a good home :(. Wont someone think of the M-parallels.
 
Wow, even though mine isn't perfect, it doesn't look half as **** as that and it's done over twice the miles. I want that wood trim though. :(

Oh, and while I'm on the subject of my car - can anyone recommend decent replacement LED marker bulbs (if there is such a thing), as one of my car's standard incandescent bulbs blew today. :mad:
 
LED marker bulbs for where? I'm not a fan of replacing the Angel Eye bulbs with LED's - it doesnt really look right and the contrast of yellow on white with the Xenons looks great.
 
Angel eye bulbs, sorry. The 'side and parking lights' as per P162 in the manual.

I can't seem to find anything other than LEDs?

Pic:

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I assumed that the bulb came as a 'unit' as per the picture, but have since found pictures of a small 10W bayonet bulb that is removable from the plastic body (although the bulb on its own is meant to be hard to find):

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Anyone here with a manual?

I have been driving it since march but the gear changes seem to be extremely difficult to change smoothly, is it me or the car?
 
Mine is a manual, can't say I've had a problem? 1st is a bit jerky because of the stupid Clutch Delay Valve but beyond that its fine. It isn't a lesson in perfect manual transmissions but it's fairly decent.
 
[TW]Fox;22326905 said:
Mine is a manual, can't say I've had a problem? 1st is a bit jerky because of the stupid Clutch Delay Valve but beyond that its fine. It isn't a lesson in perfect manual transmissions but it's fairly decent.
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Probbably me then,

Car has a serious knocking from the rear when the car is creeping forward in neutral and wiggling the gearstick between 1st and second with the clutch up, not ideal.
 
It isn't you, BMW manuals are just pants. I find my e36 a bit tricky to shift perfectly smoothly, the 6spd 320d I find really hard work. I hear that even new low mileage ones suffer with backlash and clutch dragging.
Remember that Fox had a brand new box fitted in his so should be better than most. It had 5th gear detent problems IIRC, which is another common fault with them.
 
Clarkey said:
It isn't you, BMW manuals are just pants. I find my e36 a bit tricky to shift perfectly smoothly, the 6spd 320d I find really hard work. I hear that even new low mileage ones suffer with backlash and clutch dragging.
Remember that Fox had a brand new box fitted in his so should be better than most. It had 5th gear detent problems IIRC, which is another common fault with them.
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Naah! It's you guys! :P

I've found BMW manuals to be pretty good in the main - especially on the e36 imo...

Rarely used the clutch in my old e36 when changing gear, try it, it's easy to master and I prefer it.

Each to his own mind you..... :)
 
I kinda got used to my E46 manual in the end. I think the key was completing the shift swiftly and with intent, so that you perfectly matched the falling RPM as you up-shifted, or at worse caught it a bit earlier so the RPM was dragged down a bit. I remember the M54 being particularly unsmooth if you tried to drag the RPM up.
 
I hear by end my search, had one golden opportunity which I lost and not seen anything close since.

Will stick with my company car and will perhaps go F10 in a couple years. :(
 
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