Guess where I was today

There's not many cars out there that can do a convicing job on the M3, but the new M5 is definetly one.

By the time we reached 80mph, he was about 4 car lengths ahead of me, and I wasn't holding back!!

kbannon wrote: JohnH wrote: What about the sticker on the inside windscreen of the M5 that says "No full throttle for the first 2,000km" I don't think I'd be happy buying one of these "demonstrators" Apparently one needs a new gearbox!

That sounds promising

kbannon wrote: yeah! I was talking to Dan in M&G today and he was telling me. He said that another's tyres all de-laminated. When I was there there was a blue one in the service shop!

See the infromation you can find at these things. I wonder will we hear more about gearbox problems etc. What are the chances of a recall on the new model, theres alot of electro gadgetry to go bonkers in these new machines.

I was reaing an article in a mag a while back, CBG magazine i think, and it was listing the most reliable cars, highest costs etc, etc. and i was amazed cars like the 7-series had a host of recalls across europe and Merc's did'nt look to clever either.

Having seen a few new 3's about i'm convinced it the worst designed beemer by a good mile or ten.

I see from the photo's the tyres are Conti sport contacts, what happened to sticky Michelin's?

Robbie Bradford wrote: I see from the photo's the tyres are Conti sport contacts, what happened to sticky Michelin's?

Maybe they had already burned those?

How much is a service gonna cost on these beasts, would'nt fancy being handed the invoice

I think the headsup display is a great addition to road cars and it's great to see BMW be the first to use it. This will be standard on most top marque's within the next 5-10 i'd imagine and susequently all models in the future.

Whatever about the design of the new wave, its great to see engineering and innovation is still alive and well, afterall this is what these cars are all about IMO.

Brother in laws 645ci conv has nearly all the option boxes ticked with plenty of electronic bits among them and was back for 2 software related recalls in the first 6 months and there are still some functions not working properly (little things like dashboard back lights, etc.!).

Loves the car but these things are irritating the crud out of him.

A bigger part of the problem is not so much the reliability of the systems (most recent BMW's have some sort of costly foibles (or at least for their time), SI boards on e30, e34, etc, pixel death on the e39 dashboards, vanos units on e36 M3 evo's, etc.) but rather the fact that the service personnel are still only getting to grips with the diagnosis, maintenance and repair protocols whicj means faffing around in trying to figure out whats gone wrong.

Sorry Robbie, but then what?