I took Diane and a couple of friends to see the Tempest Rally yesterday, and then went on to a bonfire night and fireworks celebration. The rallying part of the day involved plenty of M5 excursions up muddy lane to find suitable spectator points in the forest; the car generally being used as a comfy […] Read more »
Nothing much has been reported over the last couple of weeks and that’s a good thing. I’ve not used the car a huge amount – probably only done 100 miles in that time, but they’ve all been good, balls out, V8 barking, smile inducing miles. So far then, so good. Also – see how forward […] Read more »
The super saloon appeared for the first time in BMW Car Magazine today. It’ll be featuring regularly there as part of their long term fleet. Of course, if you read this blog you’ll already be ahead of the M5 news, but there’s loads of other great content within that magazine’s pages, including another M5 in […] Read more »
Having managed a 10km run in just over 50 minutes this morning, I had planned to lard around the house for the afternoon. However, the weather was just too good to ignore, so I decided to go and play with the cars for the afternoon. I’ve decided that the badge on the back of the […] Read more »
A pair of black kidney grilles arrived during the week as a result of an eBay transaction, so today I chose to clean the car and fit them. I’m not really a fan of large lumps of chrome on the front of an otherwise discreet vehicle, and as such the tractor has sported black kidney […] Read more »
I’d set today aside to give the 330d some much wanted love, and I was required to help Robin perform a quick gearbox swap in his 325i, so the M5 has only a short tale to tell. This morning I pushed it out of the garage so I could retrieve some 330d tyres. Utterly filthy […] Read more »
This weekend saw a little bit of a road trip, and in a successful attempt to empty my wallet I chose to take the M5. On Thursday evening I drove to Monmouth to collect a pal. On Friday morning we drove to Bath for an eye test, then to Newquay for a stag weekend. On […] Read more »
One of my colleagues spotted a brand new BMW E39 M5 rear right brake disc on eBay for ยฃ80 delivered last week, so I bought it – partially because I’ll need it (when I get a left one to match), but also for the comedy value of having a single giant brake disc delivered to […] Read more »
Okay, I’m officially sat here all very pleased today. This all started when I plugged the Carsoft diagnostics in since last nights outing and noted that the DME fault code 92 had not returned – all was clean. There were three other warnings: airbag, instrument cluster and EWS. The EWS and airbag warnings both referred […] Read more »
Today began brightly, and I prepared to change the oil filter and install the liquid gold TWS 10W60. This was a simple operation, the only hiccup being my selection of an oil catch tub that had a hole in it. Upon restarting the car, as expected, the Vanos was quiet, then very loud for about […] Read more »