How ya lads

Marlow · August 17, 2010

Howdy,

just signed up here. Bit of a car nut and also had my fair share of contacts with BMW's throughout the years.

What got me interested originally, more than 15 years ago, was when a friend of mine bought an E28 518 as his first car. Well, it wasn't a 6-pot, but it was a quite nice BMW, even though it was poverty spec. I then a couple years later temporarily had a lend of an E30 325e (2.7l low-rpm engine), which I absolutely loved.

I'm from Denmark originally and after I moved to Ireland nearly 7 years ago, my first irish car was an E34 520i automatic. A few cars and vans inbetween that and two years ago, I found my way back to the bimmers in the form of an E39 525tds from '97.

The tds was traded for a '99 E39 M5 last year, which is my weekend and fun car:

Fortunatly one of the previous owners did a lot of the upgrades to the facelift model (like 16:9 display in the dash, angel eyes, etc.)

As of last month, also my daily driver is a BMW again. A '01 E39 525d Touring in Japan Red, which I'm currently upgrading to MSport spec:

It came with cloth interiour, but I've already started replacing it with a sports leather interiour:

The wood trim is going to be replaced with silver trim, similar to my M5 and a Msport steering wheel is also on the wishlist, but first the suspension and the headliner are going to be replaced.

I'm quite active on a few car related forums and might be knocking around here from time to time.

/M