RE: Shed of the Week: BMW 528i

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njw1 said:

rallycross said:

I just had a drive in my 2003 525i touring manual - I have not driven it for a while.
Great value now (paid much less than a £ grand 6 months ago with fsh 2 owners and sensible miles) but good lord it's a dull thing to drive its a great big numb barge that's strangling a superb engine.

That's a lot of car with not a lot of engine, what were you expecting? And if you're not driving it all that often then it's probably broken as well?

Same power as the older 528, if it is sluggish it could have a cam sensor gone or vanos seals need doing, 192bhp it should move on a fair bit, but it is slow compared to today's cars.

[Mat-vhi1h]

Quick update, did 500 miles over the first 3 days in her, absolute bargain of a car.

Car drives beautifully, everything smooth, no rattles or pulling to one side, no famous E39 shimmy. Two minor niggles, a very temperamental fuel gauge which looks like one of the tank sensors, not too difficult to fix I think, and it has auto windscreen wipers, which worked perfectly, and then went to fixed intermittent, I'm hoping a reset will cure that but not got round to it.

I actually live in France, so I'm away from the car at the moment as it is still in the UK.

Long term I haven't decided whether to take it to France, or leave in the UK for when I'm over there.

Either way it's a bargain of a car. The previous owner has moved on to a next generation 545i, whoever gets that in time, will get a peach of a car if he looks after it half as good as he has this.