Slight excite! BMW e39 Msport being delivered to me today!

[hman]

Proof that drinking beer with your friends can result in good decisions - I bought my chums E39 525i Msport off him last weekend and its being delivered today!

I have already ordered the Failed ABS ECU from Bosch, and will investigate the wiring for the intermittent airbag fault in due course.

it will look like this:-




Lets hope its more reliable than my diseasal E60 525d

[MarkwG]

looking very tidy!

[hman]

Well thats a stock photo off internet - but the car is identical in every way.

[Vee8man]

I've had lots of E39's and they are superb cars. What wheels are they ? M-Parrallel reps ? Staggered 19's ? Are the M5 Mirrors folding ? Nice thing that, well done.

[hman]

Everything about the car is from factory options, so the wheels are staggered M-Wheels, with polished outers all standard OEM options I believe.

Think mine are 18's ?

[MarkwG]

hman said:

Well thats a stock photo off internet - but the car is identical in every way.

That's cheating

[hman]

Ha!

When its here I'll get a pic - just for you!

[andyiley]

I know you will think me pedantic, I don't mean to be.

I own an e39 530 Sport myself & the model nomination M Sport only came about on the later e60, it is an e39 Sport.

As mine does, it may well have M badges all over the place, (steering wheel, gear lever, boot, mats, sills most commonly) but the model name is just Sport.

[hman]

Have I just bought a car driven by pedants that get all out of sorts if someone calls their fake M5 the wrong nomenclature?

If so, would anyone like to buy mine off me - god only knows I dont want people to think of me like that!!

Its a 2nd car for getting me to work and back in, so not my P&J at all and totally surplus to actual requirements, just a good deal came up due to the abs ECU fault and situation of previous owner and I grabbed it.

I'll just call it a fake M5 in future, then theres no misunderstanding.

[sparks_E39]

Well yes it's not an M Sport but a nice car all the same, whatever you like to call it. The cooling system may need attention if any part of it is older than 5 years.

[jboy72]

My friend moved from a reliable e39 525i to an unreliable e60 525d so let's hope so... Despite DPF and other issues I think he is happy with the move, helped by the fact that his e60 is a black Msport with cinnamon leather and does look good. I was a big fan of his 525i though, felt like it had plenty of pep with the manual box and handled wonderfully.

[andyiley]

Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed or something?

[hman]

Have a few jobs to do, abs ecu, rocker cover gasket and vanos seals. Drives really nicely no clonks, rattles or looseness at all

[bigunit00]

I bought an e39 530 sport a few mths back as my daily and love it.

[hman]

Just ordered black grilles for it chrome is a weird finish when the rest of the car is black

[andy ted]

My 528i had an airbag fault, turned out to be the wires that connected to the drivers seat sensor, only apparent when adjusting the seat - it was enough to temporarily break the contact and trigger a fault code. It's a very common problem caused by years of moving the seat back and forward so could be worth a check?

[hman]

I'm going to take a look at that as well, seems to have pretty much all the common e39 faults, glad I didn't pay a lot for it!

[Vincefox]

That looks brilliant. Love parallels on the e39.

[B17NNS]

Still very handsome cars. I'd love a champagne.

[andyiley]

You say abs ecu, have you enquired at Quarry Motors in Sheffield (they sell on www & the bay) as they do genuine, brand new BOSCH ones for around half price of bmw.

On the rocker cover gasket, I used wynns instant gasket on top of a full new seat of gaskets & found that was the only thing that worked due to the usual warping of the plastic rocker cover.