Any 3 or 5 series Touring owners - question on boot size!

[andypowell]

Hi All

I need to know if I can fit a bike in the back of a 3 or 5 series estate if I take the quick release wheels out!

Can anyone confirm if this is possible(without folding seats down) for either 3 or 5 series?

thanks

[Hammerhead]

Reckon you can do that in a 5 easily - did so in an e34 saloon years ago.

No idea about a 3.

[JimexPL]

What is the bike?

My 19" hardtail would fit in my old E46 saloon and my E36 saloon by removing the wheels and dropping the seat post.

[miniman]

Definitely in a 5-series.

[andypowell]

Standard road bike - will remove both wheels but nothing else

[Hammerhead]

Should have mentioned, I only had to remove the front wheel.

[DaveR]

A roadbike minus the wheels will happily fit in the boot of an E46 3-er Touring without folding the rear seats down. Most days that I drive to the office, I do so in just such a fashion

Edited by DaveR on Monday 8th June 17:28

[sniff diesel]

In an E36 touring a MTB will fit fine with both wheels off, in the saloon it won't make it through the opening even with the saddle post removed.

[matt21]

My E34 is huge. I regularly bung the seats down and just wheel my bike in wheels on as well.

I have fit two in with the wheels on.

Amazingly with careful packing you can get three people and three bikes in the car albeit with some wheels being removed.

[///Mike]

My bangbus (e34 tourer) will easily swallow a 19" frame mountain bike but I do have to drop the seats if I leave the wheels on. Many other cars will let you do this aswell of course but it is very easy, no messing about. I love my tourer as a second car. When I don't use it as a run around it doubles up as useful storage space. It fills the garage but I just then fill the car with stuff that would usually go in the garage lol.