Your fleet running reports

[Jobbo]

The correct alloys. Looks nice.

[Beany]

It's nice, but it's not a Z4 Coupe.

Presumably a bit different to the usual comfort seat-spec 5-series?

[integrale_evo]

Looks alright.

No fully loaded doom blue 520d though is is?

[Rich B]

that’s a VERY subtle M5! Welcome back Steve!

[integrale_evo]

Thought my x5 MOT was due in March, turns out it’s not until the start of April, giving me a bit more time to sort a few things out, so have ordered some poly bushes for the rear subframe mounts.

Powerflex want £480 for a set, which is insane. PSB poly are £230 on eBay but spotted them on Amazon for £140. Hopefully it’s a full set of 4 and I’ve not just been scammed

I’ve always liked the improvement by mounting the subframe fairly solidly, but keeping the parts attached to it rubber mounted. Just seems to control how things load up and shuffle about a bit better and haven’t ever had a negative experience from it.

[Beany]

Z4 is in for MOT and fluid swaps (including gearbox and diff oil) so lets see how that goes...

No reason to suspect any problems, recently had it on the shaker to find bad bushes and had those fixed, so hoping for a quiet day

[speedingfine]

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I for one would like more info on this purchase. Is this possible please?

[Sundayjumper]

Is BMW More Reliable Than Ferrari ? I Bought The Cheapest M5 On The Market And You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next !!!!!!!

[Jobbo]

Is BMW More Reliable Than Ferrari ? I Bought The Cheapest M5 On The Market And You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next !!!!!!!

Following the family into Youtubing now? Good to see you back SJ.

[mik]

Is BMW More Reliable Than Ferrari ? I Bought The Cheapest M5 On The Market And You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next !!!!!!!

It wasn't this was it?

[Sundayjumper]

SOY FACE !!

[mik]

You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next !!!!!!!

You want to stop playing hard to get.

You want to tell us your story

[Sundayjumper]

Yeah, it broke down

I collected it from the other side of Bristol yesterday. Just after joining the M4 from the M5 in the M5 (no need to take the M3), sudden transmission error and it started dropping into neutral. Then the engine cut out and wouldn't restart. Just turned over and spluttered. I ended up stranded on the hatched bit between the main carriageway & the slip road off to the M32. Not nice in the dark in rush hour.

It eventually restarted with a bootful of throttle & a big cloud of smoke and ran a bit rough. I revved it a few times and it was like it had just cleared some kind of blockage, running smoother each time, until I took a chance re-joining the traffic, nervous it would just die again.

We made it home, seeming to gradually run better the whole way.

There were error codes for a misfire on #5, injector #1, and fuel pressure. The seller had fitted 8x new coils just a couple of weeks ago to address a misfire; maybe that wasn't the root cause ? All those codes are linked and it's not *necessarily* one or all of them that's the problem.

Otherwise it seems OK. The condition is not quite as nice as the pics and it has some iffy ditchfinders on the front, but it was £12.5k which is comfortably the cheapest LCI I've seen. There's some very obviously rough examples asking a lot more. I don't mind putting a little time & effort in.

Edit: it's this one:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326985942650

[Beany]

Should have got a nice Z4 Coupe mate.

My one just passed it's MOT with flying colours, no advisories.

Fuel pressure might be a HPFP and the injector codes could be a result of that - that rings a *vague* bell from N55 tuning (the high pressure pump can't keep up with bigger injectors and mappings).

I know you like to do your own work but it might be worth chucking a couple of ton at a specialist who may know off the top of their head what the issue is when they see the codes and hear it running, rather than chasing ghosts around what's likely an M-tax heavy part of the running gear.