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E50 M5 And prizes, of course I've got loads more pictures, just too many to post here. They are on Facebook. /M

The white car in the front belongs to Jynx and is an E46 323i with ESS Supercharger. Plenty of power there. Got the prize for best E46. E36's Laguna Seca Blue E46 M3, my Avus Blue M5 and a genuine silver E30 M3 Evo. Maguiars had a stand. There was an icecream van and a burger/chips stand, too. This E28 won best overall Best E30

Weather was great. Here's a bunch of pictures: A whole bunch of stuff on the parking lot: Tons of E30's 840Ci Individual and Baur E30: Bunch of E39 Gotta love the E28's The Z section Another '99 M5 in Carbon Black with Black and Red leather interiour. Very nice. Custom boot:

About 50 quid will buy you a GSM/GPS tracker, 80 hours of standby battery integrated. The device is standalone and you can then just stick a prepaid sim into it. It's configured by sending SMS to it entirely, so no need to get access to it, once it's installed. It's charged via USB, so a 12v to USB adapter is all you need to hardware it. Size of the yoke: To the left a Nokia N85, to the right my GPS mouse (for comparison). The device is tiny and easy to hide somewhere. In the ROI, having the tracker even saves you a few bop on the insurance. /M

There's a bunch of modules in the boot. Each individual of them represents a part of what you see on the display. The display itself is usually generated by the navigation drive or the video module, so that's why it's working. It looks like your radio (BM24 or BM54 Professional) is dead. You might need to check the connectors, reseat them, check the fuse on the back of the radio (where the cable is attached) or worst case replace the radio module. They don't come cheap unfortunatly. Here's a picture, where the radio is supposed to sit in the E39 (don't mind, that everything is bend, it's a picture from a crashed car): The unit has a sticker like this: Older ones are BM24, newer ones are BM54 If you have to buy a replacement unit, make sure you get one with the same connectors. The older ones had round pins, the newer ones square pins. There exist converter cables, but you might get the right thing in the first place. /M

I usually take a good few snaps. I'll post'em. Will hopefully have my two E39's up with me. The M5 went to the detailer yesterday. /M

Might be of interest to some. I'm not organising this, just making people aware, that it's happening. /M

I've got 150k miles (243000 km) on the clock and mine is a September '99 M5. The car uses about 1 liter per 1000 miles, but that's exceptionally little for the pre-facelift M5's. I've heard anything around 500-700 miles per liter is acceptable and not unusual. The reason for the oil consumption is the design of the piston rings. They have a bit play, so that they can cope with the heat that the engine archieves during driving. Like any other racing engine. Not really. I know a few people with post-facelift M5's and the oil consumption isn't that much better than pre-facelift M5's. The difference is, that they can use long-lasting oils (standard 5W30 i believe), while our pre-facelift (splits around September/October 2000) models require 10 TWS 30 motorsport oil, which is more expensive. BMW changed the piston rings in those engines. The oil discussion has been ever ongoing on for example m5board and other places and if you want to keep your engine in good nick for a very long time, I can only recommend to stick with what BMW specified for your engine. That's all, really. /M

Wikipedia says, the E28 was manufactured from 1981 to 1988. Obviously some of those could be manufactured in 1988, but registered the first time in 1989. 722,328 were build. I'm not sure, what specifically you're looking for though. /M

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