Obioban/Vodyk's black on black 2008 e60 M5

[Obioban]

Welllllll....

Just ordered the parts to manual swap it.

[0-60motorsports]

RIP Charles. Looking forward to the maintenance you do on the M5.

[thegenius46m]

Nice pickup! And yes 08+ S85 cars are considerably better built than than 06-07 variants. I haven't really heard a ton of vanos issues on the lci models compared to the pre lci.

[bjz!]

Nice!

[Obioban]

Better buy an extra set of rear tires I'm thinking you're going to need them
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Going to get all 4. Car has barely been driven in a decade, and is on tires from before that.

[Mystic3]

Better buy an extra set of rear tires I'm thinking you're going to need them
🤔

[lastMleft]

RIP Charles, good to see you own it now, and I can’t wait to see what you do with it!

[RoyalFlushness]

Love these things!

[02_lsb]

Having owned multiple Bangle era cars in the past including e90 and e61, I never understood the the public perception of the stylings dislikes. They’re beautiful cars, and as Chris Bangle mentioned himself - these cars need to be seen in person. My e61 is sitting at 225k miles, the interior has held up waaaaaaay better than my m3 at less than half of the mileage.

This is super nice. Congrats on yet another ///M car.

[Obioban]

From 2008 on you have the 'good enough' version

Both my e39M and e60M are the first month of production of all the important updates , weirdly.

[SYT_Shadow]

From 2008 on you have the 'good enough' version

[Obioban]

I feeling hopeful that maybe the S85's reliability reputation has more to do with the earlier versions than the later versions. I had no idea how many production cycle updates they had for it, most of which were in place by 2008. Of those that aren't the big ones will be addressed during the rod bearing job (bearing update and oil squirter update).

Most of the other stuff in the final update seems like it was to create more part sharing between s65 and s85, so hopefully that was more for consolidating costs than actual improvement :P

[SYT_Shadow]

RIP Charles

My favorite BMW of all time! It came into good hands with you Ian!

Sooner or later I will have a E60 M5!

Edit: a friend just strokered+cammed his E60 6MT. 535whp on a dynojet, pump fuel etc.

[Obioban]

Dyno from ~10 years ago, before I did cams, airbox, or oversized section 2 on the M3.

My M3 (red), a friends modified e39 M5 (blue), and this e60 M5 (black).

[benzthis]

When are you putting the 6 speed manual in lol