Following the hilarious tail-lift and adaptor collection, the facelift was almost a smooth operation. It all looked so simple to begin… I knew which tools to use, which bolts to remove etc, and it wasn’t long before the lights were swapped over on the passenger side. Then I had to connect them up. The motor, […] Read more »
It struck me when last night’s curry woke me up early this morning that, as a result, I may have time to nip to the 528i before work and retrieve those adaptors. I was right! Hopefully this means I can get the front lights in tonight…
Olly & I have had a play with the new lights I collected today with varying results. We started with the tail lights, which rumour had it are significantly harder to fit than the head lamps. Here’s Olly modelling one of the new units: We immediately tore out a lamp to check the connections – […] Read more »
I was up at stupid o clock today to run some car related errands, the most relevant of which was to raid an E39 528i belonging to my friend James. His 528i requires a new engine, and is then likely to be donated to a friend in Spain, and as such James volunteered its facelift […] Read more »
After much debate on the forum, I decided to bite the bullet and fork out a small fortune on TWS 10W60, the very expensive oil that E39 M5s seem to need to thrive. Big thanks to Olly Bloxham for oiling the wheels of the transaction, and ultimately sourcing 10 litres of this stuff plus a […] Read more »
Minor update: the car came with a fairly depleted tool kit. Ben Smith has kindly donated the tools from his now deceased 328i. It hasn’t filled all the gaps, but we’re a lot closer now, especially given the screwdriver from my old Vauxhall Vectra! I’ve also got a warning triangle, but it’s a big one […] Read more »
Not as much progress as yesterday, but the car is still better than it was this morning and so today is worthy of a note. Very dull to start – the headlamps had residue of beam blockers for European travel stuck on them which looked quite minging. Quite why this was done, given that it’s […] Read more »
The weather and a hangover have meant that today hasn’t yielded huge results, but there have been positive steps forward. This morning I collected some goodies from Vines BMW, and then headed down to Southampton to see a man called Rudi. Rudi charges ยฃ80 to fix knackered dashboards where the pixels don’t work. I tried […] Read more »
I really like this car. It’s brilliant! Not since my M3 Evolution Saloon (5 cars ago in 2005) have I owned a car that’s felt so vastly competent on the road. In any case, I’ll stop dribbling about it and tell you what’s new. Tyre pressures were a bit down, so that’s been sorted. Here […] Read more »
Tonight wasn’t quite as planned. Ben Smith arrived to see the car – but our main job was to get the 106 Rallye back on the road. So the M5’s first task was to tow the 106 to our workshop: The M5 is a pretty competent towing car! The whole episode amused me – the […] Read more »