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[Richard]

Look at the state of it for being washed about 48 hours ago! It's an uphill struggle keeping cars clean at this time of year.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I should imagine driving that e39 back South after getting out of the Mondeo would make you feel like those weirdos off the Compare the Market ads. I am quite envious , I loved my e39, and can think of few better ways to spend a Saturday than driving that one practically the length of two countries

 

Ah bollocks, I don't mean feel like a meerkat I meant the other one, you know the ones with the disturbing hot pants bloke and the fat builder dancing-epic is what I meant.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

JG Ross too, they seem to be the best pre-packed butteries.

I've never heard of a buttery. Some googling suggests they are awesome?

 

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[Richard]

They are basically flat croissants. They are designed for long life so I can easily post you some if you're curious.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I just googled butteries too.  Lard butties, it appears.

 

[kinkersaab]

Cant beat a good buttery, preferably toasted with lashings of butter and jam...poor Chris will have to sample them cold and dry with a swig of irn bru to soften to make swallowable.

[Richard]

I've just spotted the floor mats on Witless.

 

[Supernaut]

it * might have a dodgy shocker, and gaawd knows what else 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*another hilarious dig at supernaut...

I was actually beginning to feel bad for what I said earlier in this thread, but you still made a sale and won't leave it be, so poke it up your hoop.

[Lacquer Peel]

I just googled butteries too.  Lard butties, it appears.

 

Not always.

[EssDeeWon]

I liked my E39, always felt very well screwed together with an excellent ride and comfy leather seats.

 

Yet to speak to someone who *upgraded to the E60 and thinks they are better.

[chrisjvm]

 

That's with the cruise set at 65mph off the Sat Nav all the way,apart from about 60 odd miles of twisties

 

 

Just to say it was worth the near 900 mile round trip.... Return journey was to South Shrops thank god!

 

 

The BMW is great ....!!

Everything works on it ...

Virtually one lady owner until June last year...

Drives really nicely

Despite lack history you can tell it's been looked after ...

Arches are only slightly frilly so saveable if I take action soon...

Duff shocker ??? 

 

KinkerSaab (Lee) Is a top man to deal with ...(if somewhat of a whirling dervish!)

 

Left me a packed lunch(Bru n Butteries) and 30 quids worth of diesel in the tank!!!

 

Thanks for confirming I'm not a fat bastard too Lee...

 

Though didn't know you'd papped me!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I liked my E39, always felt very well screwed together with an excellent ride and comfy leather seats.

 

Yet to speak to someone who *upgraded to the E60 and thinks they are better.

Yes I'm definitely in that camp, the F10 doesn't seem any better either. Although I am basing that on two test drives of quite basic manual 520d s. I bought a Merc instead , and I hate that too- not a patch on my old W211.

Autoshiters in new cars are shit, shock!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

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That's with the cruise set at 65mph off the Sat Nav all the way,apart from about 60 odd miles of twisties

 

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Just to say it was worth the near 900 mile round trip.... Return journey was to South Shrops thank god!

 

 

The BMW is great ....!!

Everything works on it ...

Virtually one lady owner until June last year...

Drives really nicely

Despite lack history you can tell it's been looked after ...

Arches are only slightly frilly so saveable if I take action soon...

Duff shocker ??? 

 

KinkerSaab (Lee) Is a top man to deal with ...(if somewhat of a whirling dervish!)

 

Left me a packed lunch(Bru n Butteries) and 30 quids worth of diesel in the tank!!!

 

Thanks for confirming I'm not a fat bastard too Lee...

 

Though didn't know you'd papped me!!!

I suspect that it'd show high 30s, even if you'd cruised at twice that speed. Not that I've ever done anything like that from the M42 to the M25 at 4 in the morning in 2006.

[chrisjvm]

I suspect that it'd show high 30s, even if you'd cruised at twice that speed. Not that I've ever done anything like that from the M42 to the M25 at 4 in the morning in 2006.

 

 

Really ??

 

Was trying to save a few pennies...

 

If I'd known that I would've caned it all the way home!

 

Mustard mitt though, I quite liked just sitting there cruising along on an empty motorway feet flat on the tartan mat butteries and Irn bru in my belly !

[holbeck]

Nice buy.

 

I'll hold my hand up to flirting with the idea of buying this.

 

I got as far as checking flights to Aberdeen before regaining my sanity.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Yes I'm definitely in that camp, the F10 doesn't seem any better either. Although I am basing that on two test drives of quite basic manual 520d s. I bought a Merc instead , and I hate that too- not a patch on my old W211.

Autoshiters in new cars are shit, shock!

 

 

The E60 was a better car really. They need to be a good spec though - 2.5 minimum, leather etc otherwise they're rank. A clothed 520i is like an F reg Carlton whereas a basic E39 520i still feels like it cost more than 50 pence to make.

F10's are lovely cars, but forget running one when they're 10+ years old and 150'000 miles up. They'll just eat you alive with mechanical and electrical problems. Last week my E90 (nearly 10 years old) dropped a coil pack - EML light on, running like a bastard, 23 bits of plastic to remove before swapping the coil and having to get the fault code cleared. Never had any of that with the E36 that has comparable performance and economy.

 

Have fun changing the E39 front struts - they're a complete bastard. BMW designed* it so that the strut is just a bit too long to come out off the alloy strut carrier. The 18 mm retaining clamp bolt will snap off unless heated first sand you need to remove the front under tray and front section off the arch liner before undoing several seized bolts and removing the strut with the suspension arms. Swapping the spring over with compressors is an arse as well - buy a complete good used strut with the spring.

 

Not a nice job at all.

[cort16]

Having owned both e60 and e39's in quite similar time periods I thought the  e60 was pretty grim. Some of the interior plastic are horrible and the dash ergonomics are awful. idrive on the earlier cars is a disaster and way over complicated. Mine was riddled with oil leaks and electrical faults even though it had 90k on it and had fsh. Horrible.  I replaced it with an Avantime which was pretty much faultless in comparison.

 

There's a reason e60's are cheap and good e39's are going up in value. These earlier e39's seem to pretty indestructible other than rust.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The E39 when new was a lovely car. A well specced 530d Auto was about as good as a car could get.

[BavarianRetro]

That's why they were Autocar "Executive Car of the Year" each year throughout the whole production life.

 

The last BMW worth buying. I won't have anything newer again.

[hpi_matrix]

Bought an E46 330d on 170K miles, 180K miles and the high pressure fuel pump shat it pants. Sold for what I bought it for it to some eastern European who loaded it on an artic to take back home

[worldofceri]

Since nobody answered my question, re: tartan mats, I had to Google it myself.

 

These actually look pretty good value for real wool carpet:

 

[KruJoe]

You're a sick, sick man, Ceri.

But we all know your heart's in the right place. Do carry on.

[Longblackcoat]

I suspect that it'd show high 30s, even if you'd cruised at twice that speed. Not that I've ever done anything like that from the M42 to the M25 at 4 in the morning in 2006.

 

I averaged 38 point something over 40k miles on an E39 530d manual. High speeds could knock it down to low 30s, but you needed to be well north of 90mph for that. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

I feel guilty for trading in the E39 pezzer that you so kindly gave me, and prob should have roffled it here or summat .  The dealer had it on his website the next day looking shinaaaaay, and I assume it sold, but it is now showing as neither taxed not MoTed, so I fear it has fallen into the hands of some scofflaw who lives in Luton or some such shizhole, and is being driven around (probably uninsured too) until it falls to bits.

[kinkersaab]

Since nobody answered my question, re: tartan mats, I had to Google it myself.

 

These actually look pretty good value for real wool carpet:

 

Oooh, i think a set of those would go nice in my antique gold allegro.

[Longblackcoat]

I feel guilty for trading in the E39 pezzer that you so kindly gave me, and prob should have roffled it here or summat .  The dealer had it on his website the next day looking shinaaaaay, and I assume it sold, but it is now showing as neither taxed not MoTed, so I fear it has fallen into the hands of some scofflaw who lives in Luton or some such shizhole, and is being driven around (probably uninsured too) until it falls to bits.

 

That's the problem with trading cars in - you have no control over the next owner. They might be great, they might (probably will) be Billy Fuckwitt who'll promptly kill it to death because stupid.

 

What did you trade it for, btw - summat decent, I hope?

[Guest Breadvan72]

See below, toyed up 3.0 litre pezzer auto with 94,000 miles and solid sills.  The autobox on the E39 was starting to send out distress signals, and Mrs BV thought that the Bimmer was foogly and also a bit too enormoGerman.

 

 

 

[Longblackcoat]

Ah, E39 gearbox issues! One of the reasons I gave it away - if I was going to keep it I'd have sorted the 'box and done a complete change of the cooling system. And sorted the cupholders, the pixels, refurbed the wheels, the rubbish radio, and some (more) front suspension components.

 

Basically, waaaay more than the car was worth. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

I must confess that I enjoy driving the Jag more than I did the Beemer, even though the Beemer was a very good car.     I have spent some cash on changing the Jag's autobox fluids etc and some suspension bits (cheaper than Beemer bits).  Also, the dog can go in the boot and not feck up the seats (annoying dog not mine, my ex wife's and notionally my daughter's but almost always with us, bah).

 

 

Soz for thread hijack, all E39s are phab, etc.

[Hertz]

Great effort from Somerset to the Highlands that!