E61 V8 Bearding

[Jobbo]

I've never tried selling via eBay but my F11 sold within a day through a PH ad.

[hornetrider]

Jobbo said:

I've never tried selling via eBay but my F11 sold within a day through a PH ad.

I've had great success through PH in the past before they fked it up, sold several cars quickly and easily. Not this time!

[philmots]

hornetrider said:

Jobbo said:

I've never tried selling via eBay but my F11 sold within a day through a PH ad.

I've had great success through PH in the past before they fked it up, sold several cars quickly and easily. Not this time!

Exactly the same experience.

I've sold pretty much all my old cars through PH until they changed the format.

Since then eBay has worked every time. I'm not even sure why I bothered with Autotrader at their price!

[hornetrider]

Yeah I didn't bother with AT, I think a mate told me it was about 35 quid! I listed it on eBay for a tenner on Wednesday, had punters queuing up to view, it sold to the first guy who saw it 5 days later. Result.

[Jobbo]

I had no idea eBay was that cheap to sell on. Can't beat free on PH of course, but I'll bear that in mind for the future; cheers.

[jboy72]

Jobbo said:

I had no idea eBay was that cheap to sell on. Can't beat free on PH of course, but I'll bear that in mind for the future; cheers.

Spurred on by "free on PH" I just went to list mine as I am saving pennies to buy my dad's Discovery 4 - however the only option I could choose was £11.99. So I decided against my highly speculative ad! Is there a free option hiding somewhere?

[ATM]

jboy72 said:

Jobbo said:

I had no idea eBay was that cheap to sell on. Can't beat free on PH of course, but I'll bear that in mind for the future; cheers.

Spurred on by "free on PH" I just went to list mine as I am saving pennies to buy my dad's Discovery 4 - however the only option I could choose was £11.99. So I decided against my highly speculative ad! Is there a free option hiding somewhere?

There used to be but it only applied to people who have had their PH account for a good length of time. This is because it was always free to advertise but then they started charging.

[hornetrider]

Jboy has been here long enough. Should pop a thread in Website Feedback, probably a login profile snafu.

[jboy72]

Ok thanks guys!

[deebow]

da_murphster said:

Blimey a whole thread on 550i tourings - I'm in!

For the record my car:

2006 550i touring
manual
sport
now on LPG
NBT retrofit
sport button!
120k

Previously had a 550i touring auto but the manual came up and was too good an opportunity to miss

hopefully going for some paint soon as its a bit tired

Anyone had a remap - worth it?

Anyone got sensibly priced ideas to improve the noise?

if you don't mind me asking what are you getting on lpg as I'm thinking of converting my 650 and also did you get the nbt retrofitted yourself? if so what did it cost

with the exhaust ifyou remove the silencers/resonators it supposed to improve the sound. if you look on bimmerfest forum theres plenty of threads about it
thanks

[da_murphster]

The trip says 23mpg so take about 10% off that = your mpg on LPG, then consider LPG is roughly half the price of petrol (I pay 49ppl). You also use petrol when the car is cold (fist 5 miles or so). Its a safe 40mpg equivalent and hopefully a simpler engine than the 535d so running costs should drop.

NBT is from here:

http://www.germaniks.com/bmw-e60-e61/bmw-nbt-retro...

Pretty easy retrofit and you get £350+ for your old system on the 'bay

[ATM]

2006 BMW 5 Series 4.8 550i M Sport Touring 5dr
5 Doors, Automatic, Estate, Petrol, 88,000 miles
£9,950.00

no pics

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291796069876

[kitsell]

Gents (&ladies?)
Looking for some advice please, I bought an E61 545 SE yesterday. Poverty spec but manual so I'm prepared to forgo some luxuries. First thing to attend to is the tyres - they are makes I've never heard off (at least they're the same across each axle). Continental Sport Contact 5 seem to get good press, any experiences or recommendations on anything else I should consider?

Cheers
kitsell

[Jobbo]

I put a set of Falken ZE912s on my second 545i and I was surprised how good they were. I can't tell you the wear characteristics but they were miles better in every department than the Goodyear NCT5 run-flats I'd previously had. Fine in the wet and dry, no problem with understeer or oversteer; I was really surprised.

[hashtag]

kitsell said:

Gents (&ladies?)
Looking for some advice please, I bought an E61 545 SE yesterday. Poverty spec but manual so I'm prepared to forgo some luxuries. First thing to attend to is the tyres - they are makes I've never heard off (at least they're the same across each axle). Continental Sport Contact 5 seem to get good press, any experiences or recommendations on anything else I should consider?

Cheers
kitsell

Mine has Dunlop SP sports on at the moment.

Hone the time comes they will be changed the Michelin PS4 non runflat's

The Dunlops are surprising in how good they are!

[wibblebrain]

I once had Continentals Sport Contact 2 on my 525d. I hated them. They were the worst tyre I've ever experienced for aquaplaning and there's no chance I'd ever fit them to any of my cars.

Nokians were excellent but they're not available in all sizes.

Using Dunlop SP Sports on my 640d and quite happy with them so far.

[ATM]

Almost any half decent go flat tyre will be better than a premium run flat. And if your current tyres and Korean ditch finders then you need to ditch them - fast. I personally think you need some wider tyres on the back because getting off the line is challenging if you want to use all that power. That will mean getting new wheels if you have a standard setup.

[kitsell]

Thanks all for the input, will have a trawl round t'internet and see what comes up. One last question - I have 245/35 on the front and 275/30 on the back - 19" wheels. Is that difference in the profile front to back as it should be, or should they have the same profile? Going for normal tyres, not run-flats.

Thanks

[Jobbo]

The profile number is a percentage of the tyre width, so you'd expect a different profile with wider rear tyres. I don't have sufficient info to confirm whether yours are the BMW recommended sizes but it should say on the pressures sticker.

[kitsell]

thanks Jobbo, every day's a school day