Show Us Your Motors!

wedrum · 31 Jul 2020 at 18:40

Gibbo said:
Yeah very happy with it, just working on the minor steering wheel wobble judder now when gently pressing brakes, seems a very common issue of pad deposits and worn front thrust radius arms as main culprit, did some big brake sessions and does seem to have helped and orders fresh front arms, drop links and ARB bushes get front end back nice and tight.

Oh and I ordered a Supersprint F1 Race exhaust system.

Oooosh that v10 is going to sing gibbo we need videos

Jonnycoupe · 31 Jul 2020 at 19:05

You foxed, I mean fixed, the M5. Much better.

Gibbo · 31 Jul 2020 at 19:08

[TW]Fox said:
Looks like Interlagos Blue to me.

What a transformation Gibbo - I must admit I thought it looked absolutely awful when you first got it - it ticked every box for 'Things that go wrong with once great BMW's'.

Now it looks absolutely wonderful. And further outlines how awful black wheels are.

Yes it’s interlagos.

Black wheels have their place (rarely) but all shades of blue massively benefit bright silver wheels but just seems theme is gloss black on so many cars these days and gloss black is worse off them all.

Uncle_Gravy · 31 Jul 2020 at 20:10

You know you've accomplished something if you get a praise from Fox.

dacads · 31 Jul 2020 at 20:39

Sold my 130i

wedrum · 1 Aug 2020 at 11:36

Gibbo said:
Yeah very happy with it, just working on the minor steering wheel wobble judder now when gently pressing brakes, seems a very common issue of pad deposits and worn front thrust radius arms as main culprit, did some big brake sessions and does seem to have helped and orders fresh front arms, drop links and ARB bushes get front end back nice and tight.

Oh and I ordered a Supersprint F1 Race exhaust system.

thats going to growl nicely

Akagi · 1 Aug 2020 at 11:54

Uncle_Gravy said:
You know you've accomplished something if you get a praise from Fox.

I think if I got praise from Fox it would drive me to re-sell whatever I've just bought.

roadie · 1 Aug 2020 at 17:29

dacads said:
Sold my 130i

I saw your video on the 130i facebook group... It will be interesting to see what you replace it with and how it compares.

Muska · 2 Aug 2020 at 13:18

Getting to a place where I'm quite happy with this now. Rear brake OEM overhaul next followed by some paint early next year.

Gibbo, your M5 looks so much nicer on the oem colour wheels, very smart.

NVP · 2 Aug 2020 at 21:10

@Gibbo Very nice, getting me all teary eyed wishing I'd kept mine. Get some diamond cut M167's on there asap!!

Akagi · 2 Aug 2020 at 21:15

NVP said:
Get some diamond cut M167's on there asap!!

Yikes.

Jony27 · 2 Aug 2020 at 21:27

Took it to Donegal, Ireland for 5 days.

dacads · 2 Aug 2020 at 21:40

Hmm seems to be a theme of blue cars developing

NVP · 2 Aug 2020 at 22:19

Acme said:
Yikes.

Oh trust me, in light grey on an M5 with those huge, shiny drilled discs and callipers all on show...

mjt · 3 Aug 2020 at 09:41

Jony27 said:
Took it to Donegal, Ireland for 5 days.

What's with the US-spec rear bootlid?

coupe69 · 3 Aug 2020 at 09:57

Washed & vacummed, was going to polish, but really couldn't summon up the energy...

Jony27 · 3 Aug 2020 at 10:21

mjt said:
What's with the US-spec rear bootlid?

It's a jap import, so it came like that

Raymond Lin · 3 Aug 2020 at 11:03

It's no prancing horse but it's my Swedish Moose.

Gibbo · 3 Aug 2020 at 11:22

NVP said:
Oh trust me, in light grey on an M5 with those huge, shiny drilled discs and callipers all on show...

I purposely avoided those wheels, not to say they are bad but I prefer and wanted the ones my car came with but in silver hence the refurb.

NVP · 3 Aug 2020 at 14:17

I never understood the appeal of the style 166, it's like they attempted a cheaper version of the MV2's.

Only my opinion, but the E60 was not a pretty car with it's bulbous and plastic-mould looking body thus requiring much more style on the accessories. The 166 were horrendous compared to previous alloys, the only plus was they were not made from sand(!), where as the 167 ensured the M5 had that extra special glint when steaming by

Edit:
Curiosity getting the better of me, what made you actively avoid M167 alloy wheels but not care about having a pre-LCI SMG-III gearbox?