Well owning this thing has been an experience already in my few months of ownership.


First up, this car is surprisingly a blast to drive in the snow...


Then I bought some wheels for the summer (stock M5 wheels with Dunlop rubber.



Then came the maintenance, been like this a few times (most issues I knew of prior to purchase)...


Then the inevitable happened....


So I had to rip it apart...


While I had it apart I figured it was a good time to do more maintenance!


Quick pic of the new bumper grill complete with functional brake ducts now (made from sink drains..lol)...



New bumper is out for paint, new headlight lenses, crash bar and fender liners are already installed.

Upgraded the look of the front end with Euro smoked headlight lenses, yellow fogs and black out kidney grills....should look real sharp when its all done.

Should have it back on the road next week, then it goes in the shop again for a new clutch and muffler delete.

THEN I am beating the living **** out of it for giving me such a hard time I'll get vids...

 

manual, V8, RWD and a LSD, no wonder it's fun in the snow! I've always wanted something like that for the winter but we have a lot of steep hills and I've seen plenty of RWD's stuck if you're moving from a stand still or turning onto the hill, even with good winter tires. How does it handle hills?

what a sin!

 

how come your m5 didn't come with the OEM M5 wheels? those look like old school e39 540 wheels in the original pics... unless thats what was stock in the early M models.

 

Its not bad actually, its better than my old Yukon was in 2WD with winter tires. Ultimately it has its limitations but I survived winter in Northern Canada with it.

You are correct, those are 540 M-Sport wheels, or "M-Parallels".

When the previous owner bought the car it came with a horrible set of 19" wheels, I am unsure what happened to the original M5 wheels for this car.

I was offered the 19's when I bought the car for extra money and I refused...lol

 

Oops. In for said beating

Such a purdy car, a buddy of mine has had one for a few years and loves it.

 

sick subi bro

 

All done for now

 

Love the E39 M5's. Specifically the 01-03's but even your 2000 is awesome.

I had an 01 540i sport 6 speed. Was a great car.