r/e60

Saw a leak coming from there smells like gas might need to replace it urgently don’t know the part the one I’m touching.

Louder at idle. When driving it seems to go away.

On going e60 project thoughts? I have had many stock e60 and oem+ and decided do something different this time.

Decide to repaint it with the same colour. Really like how it look now.

These are really going up in value. My manual car is an 08 Lci car too, maybe I should keep the miles off.

Trying to figure out this noise. It seems to be somewhat RPM driven but also at idle it’ll vibrate. Started happening after getting new tires.

So far i’ve replaced all struts, control arms, ball joints and axles. It’s persistent.

I’m guessing motor mount, trans or diff mounts. Possibly guibo. Motor doesn’t rise when checking for bad motor mount, visual of trans looked fine.

Salve a tutti, vorrei chiedere a qualcuno che è più esperto o magari a chi possiede questo modello, se sarebbe una buona macchina da comprare o meno...

Sto cercando di acquistare questa 523i con specifiche non eccezionali, alcune optional ma niente di folle (tettuccio apribile, sedili riscaldati, portabicchieri, cruise control, sport seats e basta) importata dalla Germania con ogni servizio registrato nel libretto di manutenzione, la macchina è andata in assistenza BMW fino al 2020 per i servizi e il cambio delle valvole VANOS, ora la macchina ha 216.000 km sul contachilometri e la carrozzeria ha bisogno di un po' d'amore per essere restaurata, gli interni sono come nuovi...cercherò alcune foto da mettere qui

Price Is 4850€ on the road

Grazie in anticipo a chi mi aiuterà a prendere questa decisione♥️

Wash > 400 wet > 600 wet > 800 wet > 1000 wet > wash and clean with isopropyl alcohol > 3 coats of 2k headlight clear

Let go of my ‘07 e60 base trim today. Bought at 112k miles for $6200, sold at 156k miles for $3300. Spent $10k+ on regular servicing. 7 years of ownership.

I wanted to keep this classic but my back injury won’t let me drive a sedan anymore.

You will be missed, my friend.

I have a 530d with the m57 from 2004 and yesterday in the highway the gearbox has some weird behavior with a sudden downshift on D/S mode unnecessary and in manual mode it shifted from 4 to 3rd at more than 120kp/h resulting in more than 4937rpm for a second.

No error on board and got home without any problems but I'm worried the Trans might be dying.

It's not the first time the Trans does something strange. A few months back the car went into limp mode when it shifted from 6 to 5 on highway because it looked like the trans had difficulty shifting and gave out a trans error (Red icon) which went out by removing the key and starting again the car.

I've never seen that error again and in the ecu which I used an OBDLink CX to read it and there's no error from the gearbox.

Here is the link to the latest error code read from the ecu using the bimmerlink app https://share.tomasps.com/u/ylgY0r.jpg

Thanks for your time reading this :)

This car is getting hard for me to ignore and drive one of my other cars. Its just so good. My SMG car is starting to miss me. 😆

I have rolled through many different versions of BMWs, e28, e36 M, e39 (2), e53, e38, e83 (2) and i finally found an e60 that was practically brand new. I have lurked this subreddit for a while and happy to have this in my fleet.
Thanks for all the posts to keep me motivated to get one.

Long time lurker and felt like I wanted to share my journey of restoring and upgrading this old beauty.

I've always loved the E60 and especially the M5, but for that one I don't have enough money to buy one but perhaps one day.

I had the opportunity to buy this from my friend who ran into an issue with the gearbox. It would not shift into gear anymore and then she took it to a gearbox specialist and they told her that she needs a new ''used'' gearbox and that would cost her 2500€. After some thinking she asked me if I want this car because it was pointless to her to fix it because it had multiple leaks all around the engine and other problems.

Long story short...

I dropped the gearbox oil and took out the mechatronic to find out that the sleeves were absolutely perished and that's why the gearbox could not hold pressure to change gears. So a 2500€ fix was done with new mechatronic sleeves and new oil. That costed me whopping 250€.

Took me a while to get it fixed and to former glory, but today after installing the rear bumper today I can finally call it ''finished'' for now.... (Some things I still have adjust for example the front struts. I have a feeling I did not install them all the way down because the gap is too big)

Things I have done to this car:

- Valvecover gasket

- Oil housing gaskets (Both)

- Mechatronic sleeves and gearbox oil

- Basic maintenance: Oil, oil filter, fuel filter, air filter, cabin filters, brake fluid, spark plugs.

- New water pump, thermostat, serpentine belt and rollers, Mickey Mouse flange

- New brake discs and pads on all corners

- New brake line hoses

- Front struts and shocks. (Front shocks were snapped, classic). Absolutely horror stuff because the bolts were completely seized).

- Bought M-sport bumpers and side skirts and a steering wheel from a scrap car. Restored them and painted them for my color. Restored the steering wheel as well, it was pretty trashed.

Probably bunch of other work was done which I have already forgotten, but that's what comes into my mind for now.

I've received a lot of inspiration from many of you so I decided to share this if this helps someone out there to finish their projects ;-)