BMW E39 M5 touring build #2
Discussion
McGee_22 said:
Fabulous!
Utterly fabulous.
Utterly fabulous.
Aluminati said:
That looks fantastic
christhreadgill said:
Fantastic to see it is out and about. Another M5 tourer on the road!
E90_M3Ross said:
Magnificent!
Hereward said:
What a wonderful machine. Congratulations.
Gallons Per Mile said:
I love the attention to detail. Very nice 
Jhonno said:
Fantastic. So understated too.
Thanks everyone!
Paul S4 said:
If it were mine I would be tempted to remove all the badges... to keep people guessing.....it is the ultimate Q car !
The only give away being the quad tail pipes !
I get that but as with the last one I did, I wanted them to look like something BMW would have sold so it has to correct in the details.The only give away being the quad tail pipes !
More on that later this week.......
BSSBMW said:
Jules Sunley said:
Excellent work. Now it's driving is the deadline you mention that of the Ultimate BMW meet on the 30th? If so I hope to see the car there.
Thanks! And yes, spot on! Come and say hello, its on the E39 M5 owners stand along with the Oxford green one I built.An ever looming deadline to have the car ready of an event, a flurry of activity has happened this week.
A load of expensive plastic and a few metal bits in the form of new wiper arms, scuttle panel trims, side mouldings and some other bits and bobs.
The original load sill trim panel had seen better days a so a new one of those was fitted.
The original wiper arms and scuttle trims looking decidedly weathered and faded.
All parts removed and the area cleaned up and free of any corrosion.
New parts all fitted and everything dressed in aerospace 303.
Engine bay complete.
Royal steering wheels worked their magic on redoing the wheel in the correct printed leather and M tri colour stitch.
All fitted up with a new lower trim panel.
I wanted to ensure the engine was going to be running as well as it could so all four O2 sensors and both MAF sensors (a common issue on the S62) were ordered up.
I thought I was on a roll when the first three O2 sensors all came undone with ease so when I got to the fourth it turned into a complete battle which I ended up having to cut off, drill out the remains and repair the thread.
Despite wanting the leave the engine alone for now bar some sensors and what not, I put a new chain tensioner in it.
This little lot will be familiar to some of you who know E38/E39/E46 era sat nav and audio systems. I sent it all of to Barris at www.carphonics.co.uk for some upgrades.
The radio unit (bottom left) is know as the BM54 and is basically a radio with internal amp made by Becker. These are prone to the amps failing so Barris replaces and upgrades these. I also had some pre outs added incase I decide at a later date to replace the factory DSP audio system with an after maket amp.
The top right box is the original analogue TV tuner and this has now had its internals replaced with an Apple car play/Android auto system which works with the original 16:9 monitor and that was also upgraded to touch screen for the Apple car play.Android auto function rather than use the idrive controller type thing in the pic.
Spotify and Waze on the factory monitor. Winner!
A couple of weeks ago I dropped something off to https://www.b-trim.co.uk/ and Monday was collection day.
For those not au fait with all things E39 M5, the interior leather was offered in two types of finish, normal "Ostrich" leather often two tone in colour and Heritage leather with the vertical stitch which my donor M5 had. Now as BMW never made an M5 touring there are no heritage leather rear folding bench seats about so after dropping of the original saloon rear bench and my standard touring one, they made me a heritage napa leather touring rear bench.
They got it spot on in match in my eyes.
The rest of the interior all back together and finished off with a new set of genuine BMW mats.
Today saw a trip up to Gaydon as there was a BMW show on which was the deadline after being invited by the E39 M5 group organiser.
Where it was joined by the sister car!
A load of expensive plastic and a few metal bits in the form of new wiper arms, scuttle panel trims, side mouldings and some other bits and bobs.
The original load sill trim panel had seen better days a so a new one of those was fitted.
The original wiper arms and scuttle trims looking decidedly weathered and faded.
All parts removed and the area cleaned up and free of any corrosion.
New parts all fitted and everything dressed in aerospace 303.
Engine bay complete.
Royal steering wheels worked their magic on redoing the wheel in the correct printed leather and M tri colour stitch.
All fitted up with a new lower trim panel.
I wanted to ensure the engine was going to be running as well as it could so all four O2 sensors and both MAF sensors (a common issue on the S62) were ordered up.
I thought I was on a roll when the first three O2 sensors all came undone with ease so when I got to the fourth it turned into a complete battle which I ended up having to cut off, drill out the remains and repair the thread.
Despite wanting the leave the engine alone for now bar some sensors and what not, I put a new chain tensioner in it.
This little lot will be familiar to some of you who know E38/E39/E46 era sat nav and audio systems. I sent it all of to Barris at www.carphonics.co.uk for some upgrades.
The radio unit (bottom left) is know as the BM54 and is basically a radio with internal amp made by Becker. These are prone to the amps failing so Barris replaces and upgrades these. I also had some pre outs added incase I decide at a later date to replace the factory DSP audio system with an after maket amp.
The top right box is the original analogue TV tuner and this has now had its internals replaced with an Apple car play/Android auto system which works with the original 16:9 monitor and that was also upgraded to touch screen for the Apple car play.Android auto function rather than use the idrive controller type thing in the pic.
Spotify and Waze on the factory monitor. Winner!
A couple of weeks ago I dropped something off to https://www.b-trim.co.uk/ and Monday was collection day.
For those not au fait with all things E39 M5, the interior leather was offered in two types of finish, normal "Ostrich" leather often two tone in colour and Heritage leather with the vertical stitch which my donor M5 had. Now as BMW never made an M5 touring there are no heritage leather rear folding bench seats about so after dropping of the original saloon rear bench and my standard touring one, they made me a heritage napa leather touring rear bench.
They got it spot on in match in my eyes.
The rest of the interior all back together and finished off with a new set of genuine BMW mats.
Today saw a trip up to Gaydon as there was a BMW show on which was the deadline after being invited by the E39 M5 group organiser.
Where it was joined by the sister car!
Edited by BSSBMW on Sunday 30th April 22:04
Bloody hell Barry...
That is one hell of a build. That OEM 16:9 headunit upgrade is fantastic & I had absolutely no idea that could be done; if I'd have known that I'd have gotten Baris to sort similar for my previous E39 touring
I wanted to keep that OEM but upgrade the Japanese BM53 to the BM54 and get the 16:9 screen replaced; alas I never got round to it...
That interior is stunning also; absolutely gorgeous finish and the steering wheel is the icing on the cake
BMW missed a serious trick not doing an E39 M5 touring IMO; this now shows them what they could have done!
If you do ever come to sell this one I hope someone pays a pretty penny for it as it'll be worth every penny & more they pay!
That is one hell of a build. That OEM 16:9 headunit upgrade is fantastic & I had absolutely no idea that could be done; if I'd have known that I'd have gotten Baris to sort similar for my previous E39 touring
I wanted to keep that OEM but upgrade the Japanese BM53 to the BM54 and get the 16:9 screen replaced; alas I never got round to it...
That interior is stunning also; absolutely gorgeous finish and the steering wheel is the icing on the cake
BMW missed a serious trick not doing an E39 M5 touring IMO; this now shows them what they could have done!
If you do ever come to sell this one I hope someone pays a pretty penny for it as it'll be worth every penny & more they pay!
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