Rilot said:
The M5 is definately rack and pinion. It's possible they mounted the engine higher up to get more clearance.
No experience with the M5 so I'm just guessing.
Indeed it is. (I wish I had more experience of the M5
)
Rilot said:
There are a number of common problems with the E38s. Take your time a pick a good one as a tatty one with a few problems will cause you loads of head aches.
Good advice from Rilot, the more you look at, the better chance of spotting a dog, even knackered & shagged out e38's are deceptively smooth and you would'nt realise how rough it actually was until you'd compared it with some other examples.
FWIW, Iirc,I tried 7 or 8 e38's before I bought mine.
Rilot said:
750i specific
You should be able to balance a pound coin on it's edge on top of the engine with it running and without the coin falling off. If you can't there's something wrong with it and you should walk away.
Not specific to the 750 at all. I can balance a 50p piece or £1 coin with the same results on my M52 engined 728i (in-line 6).
That 750i
looks great for the money Jez,alas, I'd say its only skin deep on that one. they command such crazy low prices because of their reputation for being such money pits, a reputation thats well justified on the 750i - an £80k car thats ,alas, still as expensive to run when its value has dropped to a mere 8th of that value.
Ultimately it comes down to how well its been looked after and I'd
seriously think hard about a 750i (or any other e38) thats had 8
owners.
That'll break down to 2 or 3 owners who could afford to run it properly with main dealer servicing and 5 that probably could'nt!
Its also met some Lorry driver who deemed it needed new doors via his trucks bumper,well, thats what the seller admits about it. - This same seller has been maintaining the car himself so he says, wonder why? Cost?
In other words, its accident damaged and I'd doubt its been repaired properly to correct standards as such damage would be expensive to put right at BMW dealer rates putting it mildly, also he's done the servicing himself, I'd hardly describe my 728 as a good DIY car, a 750i? Never in this world! - they need to speak to BMW's diagnostic equipment.
Only 110K miles on an 8 owner 1995 car? My e38 had covered 98k when I bought it and its a 1998 model, you decide if that 110k mileage is genuine and how many of the 8 owners did'nt consider a simple mileage "correction" ?
As I say it looks nice, but, I'd doubt VERY much it is.
Keep looking and don't discard the 728i, its the cheapest by a country mile to run, and at that, not cheap by most standards!
You never know, that just may be the bargain 750i Sport that it looks, you could be lucky. If your lucks anything like mine, I would'nt chance it.
PS. Its also missing its "V12" Badges.
lol why do they make cars unnesilally complicated these days 
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, that said, I would'nt describe mine as "poverty spec" .