BMW 530i Sport - 3 years on

I very VERY much prefer a manual, but my upcoming surgery may knacker my clutch leg (Again). I currently drive a e36 328i sport and love it. but the need for more doors and autoness are creeping up. budget would be about £6k.
 
Tis a nice car. I'm quite tempted to get one myself. Can I ask, the servicing and tyre costs, are they main dealer and Goodyear F1's? (how long do tyres last?, I suppose rears more specifically, if driven with 'gusto'..).
 
That wheel + the Sat Nav will completely transform the interior. Would the Sat Nav also have bluetooth integration because that little stick on nokia thing looks annoying.

Lots of BMWs have been purchased on this forum since you got that thing! :)
 
Ricochet J said:
Will you be fitting it yourself?
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Yes. It's a pretty big job but should be fine. Only snag is that I'll need to retrofit the high OBC instrument clocks as well if I want to keep date/time feature in the car.

Jobs like this will keep me interested :D

robnut said:
I very VERY much prefer a manual, but my upcoming surgery may knacker my clutch leg (Again). I currently drive a e36 328i sport and love it. but the need for more doors and autoness are creeping up. budget would be about £6k.
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£6k should get you a really nice example these days, and coming from an E36 you know what to expect in terms of random things breaking and no one year being free from bills :p
 
benneh said:
Tis a nice car. I'm quite tempted to get one myself. Can I ask, the servicing and tyre costs, are they main dealer and Goodyear F1's? (how long do tyres last?, I suppose rears more specifically, if driven with 'gusto'..).
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Yes - I've maintained the BMW main dealer servicing. To be honest it's pretty reasonably priced, I pay about £100 for an Oil Service, £200 for an Inspection 1. My next service however is an Inspection II at £350 :eek:

Tyres are Eagle F1 - first two sets were GS-D3's but now my rears are Assymetrics. Rear tyres last approx 13k.
 
beermonster said:
Still looking fresh, only thing I would add is some M5 mirrors just to modernise the exterior abit those square mirrors are the only thing that spoil it IMO.
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I agree there as well - problem is they are £300 for a proper genuine set. If they ever get done they'll be very much the 'last' thing to do as there are numerous other things I'd rather spend £300 on. Exhuast needs sorting as well.

I'm actually quite looking forward to fiddling with this one and not changing the car. And I wont get dumped that way :D
 
The new steering wheel and nav system will bring the car right up to date again. Never ceases to amaze me how modern these cars look in sport form!
 
Once you decided on which car to buy, how long did it take you to find the car you have now?

I ask because I am thinking somewhat similar in regards to a 2006 320d and am just curious to hear your experience.
 
Damonic said:
Once you decided on which car to buy, how long did it take you to find the car you have now?
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About 5-6 months. And don't OcUK know it. Half the forum was sick of the word 'E39' by the time I found it and the other half didnt think I'd ever buy one :D Luckily I didnt need a new car, I only wanted one - the Monedo was fine so I took my time.

I ask because I am thinking somewhat similar in regards to a 2006 320d and am just curious to hear your experience.
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You'll find that a lot easier because there are many more of them about. When the E39 was current the Sport models were a lot rarer than they are today. Today, BMW sells 5 M Sport's for every 1 SE. In the early part of this decade the reverse was the case, partially because the Sport models were only offered on the big engined models (There was no 520d at all and the 525d/520i Sport only came out at the end of production).

Today, there are many, many 320d M Sport's to chose from so finding a good example won't be difficult.
 
Interesting write-up, it hasn't really cost you a whole lot in the time you've had it, pretty reliable really, and the serving and consumables bill is pretty low for 3 years, I would have expected that to be a quite a lot higher.

It'll no doubt be better at the M5 cruise than any of the other cars you shortlisted, especially the Impreza :o ...I can't imagine you with one of those really.

Your 5 series has a sort of 'mythology' surrounding it now, it's become more than a car, it's an icon :p ... which of course means that you can never get rid of it.

So I take it you've left Uni now then? ...what is that you do for work anyway?
 
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[TW]Fox;14959062 said:
It never got beyond the 'I really like those.... I could get one of those. Some are in budget... Hmmm, all automatic' stage :)
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Wouldn't have provided the all-round characteristics which you wanted anyhow, plenty of time for barges in the future when you have a boring job like mine where you have to drive eleventy billion miles a week :)
 
If you keep your seats and interior that clean, does it not annyo you when drunk friends pile in with kebabs and the like?
 
Sukh said:
If you keep your seats and interior that clean, does it not annyo you when drunk friends pile in with kebabs and the like?
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He probably doesnt allow open food in his car, i certainly dont and i am less anal than fox interior wise (although i am getting there).
 
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