Looking at an E60 M5 tomorrow
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Just had a look at a picture of mine side on photo on completely flat ground and it's definately higher than yours at the front anyway. Can't post a photo from my iPad on here as it doesn't seem to work with photo bucket.
Have a look at my thread and you will see the height of mine in the first few pics, mine is standard height http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Simon.
Have a look at my thread and you will see the height of mine in the first few pics, mine is standard height http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Simon.
Edited by cosworth330 on Friday 20th May 07:45
Mario149 said:
Khaki Suit said:
It was for you mate. I'm not into that Alpina.
Yours definitely looks lowered to me. Have a look at your springs, maybe Blue H&R's?
Hmmmm....will have a look. Dealer pics seems to have it at a more normal height no?Yours definitely looks lowered to me. Have a look at your springs, maybe Blue H&R's?
glad your loving your m5 mario,i have a 2005 ,had it for 4.5 yrs now and cant part with it,only done 17000 in that time she now has 67000 on clock and i bought it from knight smiths staffordshire bmw for 21k 4.5 yrs ago with extended 2 yr warranty ,i renewed with mondial on a rolling monthly cost of £102 which is transferable with 0 excess ,..i removed the exhaust and run supersprint x pipe and complete muffler delete with no boxes what so ever..haha probarbly halved its value but f
k me what a sound..and bmw main dealer still repairs everthing with pipes in place and i dont get my servicing done at dealer..if you have a mondial warranty your gona love it
k me what a sound..and bmw main dealer still repairs everthing with pipes in place and i dont get my servicing done at dealer..if you have a mondial warranty your gona love itMini update:
So about 10 days into ownership all is going well. few things worth mentioning:
1) fuel consumption: you've got to love it. Tickling her along with the odd squirt on a good piece of road yields about 14.5mpg
Money well spent though 
2) back end felt very squirmy when giving it the full potatoes, thought it was just the road surface around where I live, but I checked the tyre pressures the other day and all were at about 1.8 bar! The fronts are now on 2.3 and the rears are on 3.2 and things seem to be much better (might even help fuel consumption). Not sure if they are correct though as a) it's quite tricky to deduce the correct pressures from the plate on the door (I might be being dumb but the diagram is confusing as hell to me!) and I didn't have the handbook handy at the time, and b) the rears are 305 section which appears to be non-standard
3) getting used to the gearbox - it's interesting as I've found that auto mode is actually quite liveable so long as you're just pottering and using it like a regular car, it actually encourages you to take it easy as the gearshifts are then quite smooth. If you then start trying to drive with a little more verve, it's all a bit terrible so you then have to switch to manual, but it's still not ideal as even with the lifting on change up the clutch seems to not do a great job. When you're at 8/10s or more vicious gear shifts are then quite fun So basically, it encourages you to either drive like grandma or thrap it everywhere
4) quick question: whenever I get in, auto mode gear change is *always* reset to 1, is there anyway to make it remember what it was on the last time? It's not the end of the world but it seems to want to make the car pull away in 2nd as result which can't be good for clutch life.
So about 10 days into ownership all is going well. few things worth mentioning:
1) fuel consumption: you've got to love it. Tickling her along with the odd squirt on a good piece of road yields about 14.5mpg
Money well spent though 2) back end felt very squirmy when giving it the full potatoes, thought it was just the road surface around where I live, but I checked the tyre pressures the other day and all were at about 1.8 bar! The fronts are now on 2.3 and the rears are on 3.2 and things seem to be much better (might even help fuel consumption). Not sure if they are correct though as a) it's quite tricky to deduce the correct pressures from the plate on the door (I might be being dumb but the diagram is confusing as hell to me!) and I didn't have the handbook handy at the time, and b) the rears are 305 section which appears to be non-standard
3) getting used to the gearbox - it's interesting as I've found that auto mode is actually quite liveable so long as you're just pottering and using it like a regular car, it actually encourages you to take it easy as the gearshifts are then quite smooth. If you then start trying to drive with a little more verve, it's all a bit terrible so you then have to switch to manual, but it's still not ideal as even with the lifting on change up the clutch seems to not do a great job. When you're at 8/10s or more vicious gear shifts are then quite fun
So basically, it encourages you to either drive like grandma or thrap it everywhere 4) quick question: whenever I get in, auto mode gear change is *always* reset to 1, is there anyway to make it remember what it was on the last time? It's not the end of the world but it seems to want to make the car pull away in 2nd as result which can't be good for clutch life.
Stock tyre pressures are 2.5 bar all round, 305 rears are 20mm wider than standard!! So no idea about that...
Just drive it in manual mode all the time, pottering about in D1 might be smooth but won't be good for clutch life (as you've alluded to). Tips to preserve clutch life are to set off firmly (but not launching it) so the clutch engages fully asap and knock it into neutral at a set of lights.
I'm sure there are ways to program default settings on startup, but you need tools to do that as you can't do it through iDrive.
Just drive it in manual mode all the time, pottering about in D1 might be smooth but won't be good for clutch life (as you've alluded to). Tips to preserve clutch life are to set off firmly (but not launching it) so the clutch engages fully asap and knock it into neutral at a set of lights.
I'm sure there are ways to program default settings on startup, but you need tools to do that as you can't do it through iDrive.
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