Living with the BMW M5
Discussion
Hello All.
I'm uk based & looking at an X(01) M5 as my next motor.
Just wonder if any owners here could give me any pointers in response to the brief Q's below.
1) Is it as bad on the Gas as you'd expect!! What costs have you encountered and what mileages have you been doing.
2) Have you had any issues of note.
Anything occured which may have caused you to handle the buying process differently.
3) Have you got the comms pack in yours? I'm thinking of integrating my PDA into mine (which is also a phone) I want the stereo to mute when a call comes in though...
4) Is it as good as they say it is!!
Thanks,
I'm uk based & looking at an X(01) M5 as my next motor.
Just wonder if any owners here could give me any pointers in response to the brief Q's below.
1) Is it as bad on the Gas as you'd expect!! What costs have you encountered and what mileages have you been doing.
2) Have you had any issues of note.
Anything occured which may have caused you to handle the buying process differently.
3) Have you got the comms pack in yours? I'm thinking of integrating my PDA into mine (which is also a phone) I want the stereo to mute when a call comes in though...
4) Is it as good as they say it is!!
Thanks,
Reefslayer said:
Hello All.
I'm uk based & looking at an X(01) M5 as my next motor.
Just wonder if any owners here could give me any pointers in response to the brief Q's below.
1) Is it as bad on the Gas as you'd expect!! What costs have you encountered and what mileages have you been doing.
2) Have you had any issues of note.
Anything occured which may have caused you to handle the buying process differently.
3) Have you got the comms pack in yours? I'm thinking of integrating my PDA into mine (which is also a phone) I want the stereo to mute when a call comes in though...
4) Is it as good as they say it is!!
Thanks,
1) Fuel consumption is OK as long as you have a deep wallet. The car drinks fuel when you have fun.
2) Can't comment on the buying process.
3) The comms kit on the older versions is not very good and make sure the car has the original Motorola phone in it.
I have to be honest that I drive a new 996, have always wanted an M5, but don't own one. My comments are based on an experience from my closet friend who has just sold his '51 M5 after 3 months because he got bored with it!. After about a week his comments were that it just wasn't a sports car and is a huge amount of metal moving in the wrong dierction when you loose it.
He is now buying a 996 C4S which I know is more money, but worth spending I think.
It may be of interest that I placed a deposit on the new M5 over 6 months ago and assuming timings are right I will have to spec it in about 5 months and it will be delivered early 2005. I have posted on other threads that I will except offers for my place in the queue should anyone be interested simply because it doesn't excite me.
However, regardless of my comments they are a fine and very, very fast car but not to be confused with a sports car.
You will enjoy it - but for how long.........
>> Edited by mogul on Wednesday 24th March 08:03
Reefslayer said:Prior to latest work on engine, it was probably averaging 18-21 mpg. Afterwards it looks like 20-25 mpg, where 25 is cruise set to 80 on the motorway.
1) Is it as bad on the Gas as you'd expect!! What costs have you encountered and what mileages have you been doing.
Reefslayer said:Yep, car went into 'limp mode' last year and went back to the dealers 3 times - eventually fixed by replacing various sensors and upgrading ECU s/w. Also just had new engine block/pistons due to bore wear. All covered under excellent BMW warranty - you MUST get the BMW used car warranty!
2) Have you had any issues of note.
Anything occured which may have caused you to handle the buying process differently.
Reefslayer said:No, sorry.
3) Have you got the comms pack in yours?
Reefslayer said:Yes, definately. I have never driven something so large which handles so well and goes so quickly without any fuss. But it's no sportscar so don't expect it to do things that cars 1/2 its weight can do.
4) Is it as good as they say it is!!
mogul said:something you want to tell us?
My comments are based on an experience from my closet friend
Back on topic: I currently have an M3 and have an order in for a new M5, but there is a part of me that wonders whether it will be too large. We'll see. If I feel that way, then I don't imagine it will cost me much to swap it for a 997 after a few months.
Zod said:
My comments are based on an experience from my closet friend
something you want to tell us?
Back on topic: I currently have an M3 and have an order in for a new M5, but there is a part of me that wonders whether it will be too large. We'll see. If I feel that way, then I don't imagine it will cost me much to swap it for a 997 after a few months.
That's a mistake I wouldn't want to make too many times
No I meant a close friend!
I have done 50K miles in mine in about 18 months - My advise is 1)Get a full BMW waranty (this is a must) if you use it properly, it will break. 2) be prepaired to put lots of very expensive oil in it (they all use oil, BMW will not rebuild until you get below 600 to the ltr. 3) Tyre choice is very important, both for handling and wear. 4) 400 BHP is too much for a rear wheel drive car, so its great fun!!!. Buy it and enjoy it. Yes they do break, but all cars with this much power do.
Reefslayer said:
Right then!
Sounds like I'd be signing my own financial death warrant if I didn't opt for the warranty!
Can you buy one from BMW at any time?
Is this affected by where the car is in it's current warranty period. What are the likely costs!?
Thanks again.
Last week a warranty cost £620 for a fourth year on my April 2001 car coming to an end of the standard cover in three weeks time.
FYI Av mpg 24.5 over the 57,000 miles to date.
Nothing has broken except it developed warped front discs at 7000 miles - replaced under warranty.
The economy is truly diabolical for such an unassuming looking car. On the other hand, you soon learn to blank out the whince that might otherwise be an infernally tormenting companion during the excessive pit stops that it's employment necessitates.
For under that bonnet lurketh what I'm convinced is one of the most incredible lumps of internal combustivitus fitted to production vehiculardom to-date.
Snarls, warbles and sighing sixth gear whistles are all there for the taking...
Cost-wise, I reckon it's going to be a brake-botherer for no other reason than it really does want to be a 911 but forgot it was a beer monster, as the kerb weight indicates. Mines already chewed a pair of front discs but then they may have been shagged when I got the damn thing anyway. We'll see.
It's taste for Texas tea seems milder than some and the sat-nav is pants although the DVD-rom system is said to improve things enormously.
But all this is completely irrelevant because here is a car which allows the frustrations of early morning commuting to be dispatched with almost luxury car ease and yet on the way home, peasantry nicely dissipated, it demonstrates it's completely irresistable dark side:
Ragging is a suitable term and by the fullsome testicles of the Sith, it yearns for abuse so why pretend?
Traction on or off, sport mode in or out, you are travelling in a bona fide super car: all the elements are there - classic GT sound track, frankly more than acceptable acceleration orf the line (or indeed, when tickling the erogenous regions of badland schnellerhorn) and a desire to attack squiggley bits of tarmac with probably more vigour than one's skill could really cope should the boy Newton call time...
I absolutely pronounce it the ultimate saloon because it ticks so many boxes not just emphatically but with a super thick non-smear marker stick.
Buy one immediately before you are forced into eunuchdom.
For under that bonnet lurketh what I'm convinced is one of the most incredible lumps of internal combustivitus fitted to production vehiculardom to-date.
Snarls, warbles and sighing sixth gear whistles are all there for the taking...
Cost-wise, I reckon it's going to be a brake-botherer for no other reason than it really does want to be a 911 but forgot it was a beer monster, as the kerb weight indicates. Mines already chewed a pair of front discs but then they may have been shagged when I got the damn thing anyway. We'll see.
It's taste for Texas tea seems milder than some and the sat-nav is pants although the DVD-rom system is said to improve things enormously.
But all this is completely irrelevant because here is a car which allows the frustrations of early morning commuting to be dispatched with almost luxury car ease and yet on the way home, peasantry nicely dissipated, it demonstrates it's completely irresistable dark side:
Ragging is a suitable term and by the fullsome testicles of the Sith, it yearns for abuse so why pretend?
Traction on or off, sport mode in or out, you are travelling in a bona fide super car: all the elements are there - classic GT sound track, frankly more than acceptable acceleration orf the line (or indeed, when tickling the erogenous regions of badland schnellerhorn) and a desire to attack squiggley bits of tarmac with probably more vigour than one's skill could really cope should the boy Newton call time...
I absolutely pronounce it the ultimate saloon because it ticks so many boxes not just emphatically but with a super thick non-smear marker stick.
Buy one immediately before you are forced into eunuchdom.
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