low mileage M5 service needs?

[eye121]

I'm just about to buy a low mileage M5 touring registered in 2007. What services should it have had? Will the car ask for servicing based on time as well as mileage?

Thanks very much for any light you can shed on it

[belleair302]

Additional information would be helpful. A running in service at around 1000 miles where they change fluids etc. Beyond that it depends upon how the car has been driven, but most owners would put their cars in for a Service 1 before the 10,000 mile period or within 12 months.

If the car has been properly stored with little driving and I had just purchased it privately then I would book the car into a specialist and ask them to plug in a diagnostic computer to see what pops up and then have a Service 2.

[eye121]

Thanks

I'm buying from a main dealer and they've done an inspection. Just wondering what the previous owner should have done for servicing considering a mileage of only 16K in three years

[belleair302]

Running in service, a Service one and possibly and oil service....that's about all. I would change all the fluids, filters and get the car plugged into a computer to check all of the electronics and look out for software upgrades offered by BMW.

[ecain63]

Ive had my E61 M5 for a month now and by my understanding it'll tell you when you need to take it in for work. Just get yourself some oil to top up the system when required.

[Great Pretender]

eye121 said:

Thanks

I'm buying from a main dealer and they've done an inspection. Just wondering what the previous owner should have done for servicing considering a mileage of only 16K in three years

16k in three years is hardly 'garage queen' status. Heck, if I used my car solely for the work commute, I'd rack up a measly 10800 miles in three years, using the car 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Ergo, make sure it's been serviced according to the schedule (which it will if it's an AUC car) and forget about it.

[jontysafe]

You must have arse suspension that's all I can say, I lasted 6 months odd with my Z4M. I think it gave me Emma Freuds!!

Exciting car for the weekends though, which to be fair is what BMW intended it to be.

I'm approaching middle age with alacrity and am probably built more for comfort than speed hence the M6 is a much more suitable weapon.

For me the only E46 M3 I sat in was like sitting in a Whales' Mooey. Oops posted on wrong topic, darn blackberry!

Edited by jontysafe on Thursday 18th November 07:58

[Great Pretender]

jontysafe said:

You must have arse suspension that's all I can say, I lasted 6 months odd with my Z4M. I think it gave me Emma Freuds!!

Exciting car for the weekends though, which to be fair is what BMW intended it to be.

I'm approaching middle age with alacrity and am probably built more for comfort than speed hence the M6 is a much more suitable weapon.

For me the only E46 M3 I sat in was like sitting in a Whales' Mooey. Oops posted on wrong topic, darn blackberry!

Edited by jontysafe on Thursday 18th November 07:58

We're talking about the M5 though non?

[jontysafe]

I know, posted on the wrong place, been a long day already started in Lyon at 4.30am, am now at Heathrow waiting for flight to Dubai for a few days then a trade show in Bahrain. How are you GP?

[Great Pretender]

Got ya.

I'm well thank you. Just trying manage the various requirements of a cantankerous //M fleet.

Same old, same old...

M6 still behaving?

[jontysafe]

I think you're better off asking valet parking that question!

Honestly I have never had as capable a car. Have had zero problems, not counting the soft close door sensor.

Head is saying keep it and get a 1 series diseasel, heart is saying another year then a Scaglietti.

SWMB(D)O is rather accident prone recently to the tune of 7K in the last three months. Plus my son has just turned 17......

Wonder what I'd get offered on her for a trade in?

[Great Pretender]

I know a couple of Latvians who would offer you best price...