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I thought it was OK to good-ish when you were pushing it, but it was sh*t in normal driving, like it handles fine but it's just not comfortable. How are those Roadstone tyres anyway? Good, OK or total poopoo?

Huh? Hyper has heaps on offer. I would go the Dunlop 050+ for $2k for 4 tyres.

Good for you! We have the same colour on our F11 and it's a great colour but i feel the quality of the paint is a bit poor. It's super easy to scratch and swirl and is a mungrel to keep clean.

Savagegeese's M5 videos are on the money I felt.

Agree a 528i would be nicer. If you don't care about performance then the 523i would be fine. The F10/11 is a big solid car, you can certainly feel the 7 series that underpins it. Airbags are relatively cheap and easy to replace. Only air bags and oil leaks have been issues on our 535i.

Good job on the wheels. I'm not advocating for Goodrides at all but I feel that review is overly skewed. The other two tyres are right at the top end of the performance segment, best of the best. The SA-07 looks to be well on the comfort/touring side and it's performance is probably a lot closer to other tyres in it's own class. What's more annoying if those are new tyres is that they are already 2 years old, i.e a third of their lifespan is gone. That sh*t is important given a lot of tyres tread will outlast the life of the tyre. For a budget tyre the Roadstone Eurovis 04 is actually pretty decent.

Just yuck. I am relieved to have mine gone in some ways. The E55 is also no where near as intensive maintenance wise. Even the suspension can be completely replaced for $3k. However, despite being faster, the E55 is a terrible handling car with the air suspension, nowhere near as capable as the M5.

It's all about the polish in my view. You can chuck anything decent that you might like on after that, ceramic or otherwise. $440 is cheap.

All this 130 talk makes me want to buy a manual one and modify it haha. Good work everyone.

The loss I just realized on my M5 was painful. That was the hardest part of the sale to be honest. $20k depreciation. $4k warranty, maybe $5k in maintenance? Then cost of fuel. All for just over 3 years and 26k kms.

Michelin (Lat3) and Goodyear (GSD5) have a tyre in the 19" fitment 255/50/19 for about $500. I'd go Goodyear. Both are buy one get one half price at Hyper. Bridgestone has the Alenza in that size as well and from memory it's sub $500. Bridgestone only though. If you have the 20" fitment 275/40/20 then Dunlop has the 050+ for $550 buy one get one half price at Hyper. So yeah, you can get a decent tyre for under $500 per corner. Just don't buy runflats.

Yep, it's mental. Whether someone gets $30k+ for an E36 M3 though?

Sold! What a bargain.

Sparks should be easy enough to reach. Did them in my M5 just removing the covers as you mentioned.

Manual and onlins will make it a totally different car to a stock auto.

Dont care about the +/- on both sides vs separate. The big mistake is they are wheel mounted. Column mounted is 100x better.

Spark plugs and coils is my go to idle/misfire fix.

Last wax/polish I used was Autoglym UDS and it was pretty good. For wheels, CRC Mag Monster is hands down the best wheel cleaner I have used. Beats Dragons Breathe for sure, and doesn't smell like sh*t. It doesn't go very far straight from the bottle though, so may pay to dilute 50/50. The 500mL bottle is only $13 on special and the 4L is $100 when on special (https://www.repco.co.nz/en/car-care-panel/car-care/tyre-care/crc-9309-mag-monster-mag-wheel-cleaner-4l/p/A1336147)

Investment car? Wha?

Many truths in there. Snap crackle pop exhaust is annoying. My car does it but only on occasion, because it's Italian, and Italians only do sh*t if it's an occasion. Fake quality audio is also another one. I haven't met a car audio system that I like. M5's is the best factory stuff I have had but my home job installs in my old jap cars were amazing quality in comparison. Also watched some of their other vids around the M cars. Fairly on point.

Try sterling brake and clutch AKL.

Re: the interior, yeah, it's quite bright wood, personally I like it but each to their own. I could get it wrapped piano black or something, will see how long it hangs around for. Same deal with the tyres really. They're fine for the summer but gonna need doing for winter. Re: GTO, yeah I reckon they're pretty cool cars. Re: E60 M5 in general, the internet has done them a big dis-service, they aren't nearly as unreliable as they are made out to be. Sure they have their issues but most of that is just BMW life.

Sell that bargain 130i you got. Worth more than a 500hp V10 supercar it would seem.

Hah car is filthy at the moment but cheers

100% option 2.