Ryan's 2000 BMW E39 M5: 10 YEARS of Ownership!

ryan schultz here from e39 source and welcome back i'm going to go ahead and tell you at the top of this video it's still summer go pour yourself a mojito get some more comfortable because we're about to talk for probably over an hour about this car that i have now owned for 10 years i cannot believe it it's been 10 years and about 10 days and over 66 000 miles i'm about to get way too carried away explaining everything how everything came to be how the business started how and why i got this car and then what my goals would it have been and where i plan to take it in the future so get set up get comfortable let's kick it off the story starts july 18 2009 my best friend and i kennon you guys know him he's out in california now he's got the 2002 titanium silver e39 m5 we were riding our bikes this is before we had driver's licenses before we could drive of course before anything we were in high school we just rode our bikes around about 2 000 miles a year in the small midwestern town of hudson ohio and we knew cars we liked cars we watched top gear we knew what a bmw m5 was the e60 was still in production pretty new we saw a couple of those around town always freaked out about the v10 sedan but we found this car just street parked downtown hudson and we took a picture of it here's that photo that was july 18 2009 i had no idea that this car would allow me to form the friendships and business relationships and business and just everything that it has afforded me to be able to do over the past decade ironically exactly a year later after we saw the car downtown and just took a picture of it july 18 2010 we found the car downtown again for sale had a for sale sign on it now i knew i wanted a bmw i thought it was wishful thinking to want a bmw as your first car i wanted an e36 3 series not an m3 and that's not mine but i thought you know a 328 with a five speed it'll get you into cars that'll let you drive a manual i thought that'd be super fun i said a lofty goal that i was gonna mow enough lawns as a kid and paint enough grandparents basements to uh to be able to get an e36 and i looked at one it sold out before i i was really ready to buy it or of course had the money to buy it but that's for the better because we saw this there was a phone number on it i called the previous owner the second owner of this car and i spoke with him i found out it had 143 000 miles on it at the time and my heart sank when i heard that i thought that would be way too much to try to convince my parents that uh that it would make sense to buy a car with 143 000 miles on it we had only owned pretty much hondas at least my mom had just hondas up until that point we always sold them before 60 000 miles or so and just got something newer so 143 sounded quite high to me nonetheless my dad and grandfather and i decided to go to dave's home and check out the car drive the car a little bit and i'll never forget my first ride in that passenger seat there it was just the tightest most solid heavy engineered i could tell that this thing was just a spaceship in terms of the technology when it came out and the way it rode and sounded and drove and the interior configuration it was tighter than i expected inside at the time we had an 07 accord ex v6 so maybe that just had a little bit more interior room but i loved everything about this car my dad loved the car too he's been a car guy for years he had a porsche 924 is his first sports car and then he had he actually bought a 2003 530i five-speed sport package steel blue black leather interior style 42s every option but pdc it had xenons and sport pack tech pack navigation all that fun stuff and i remember loving that car but my dad loved the way this drove and uh we came up with a deal twelve thousand five hundred dollars for the car 143 000 miles it was 10 years old in 2010 and i could not believe seeing the handshake go down that this would be mine a couple days later we met early canon came with me he's been there the entire time with this car we met dave at the bank downtown hudson we did the paperwork transferred the title paid for the car and then drove it home and when we got home the first thing we did was give it a nice big wash and a detail it wasn't bad at all you just wanted to see what you had to work with so i remember we took the license plate off and it was dirty under there we had the hood open cleaned in the doors and the wheels and the first thing that threw me for a loop was the gas cap i could not figure out how to open the gas cap every honda i had ever played with had a little uh little switch somewhere over there next to the trunk lid switch and you would push or pull that or press that button and the gas cap would pop open that was not the case here we looked for an hour trying to find a switch before we then realized that oh the bmw doesn't have a switch you just push the door and then the door opens and that that makes sense now after the wash we went to start the car to move it back over to its side of the garage and uh not even a tick the lights came on and turned the key and we just we couldn't believe that the battery would die within the first hour of ownership but it did we kept thinking well maybe that we have to press the clutch does it have to be in neutral maybe it has to be and first does the door have to be shut like we could not figure out why it wouldn't start and i you know this is long before i knew how to use a volt meter and put that on the battery leads and probably discover that we only had 10 volts or something like that but the first thing we had to do was replace the battery as we start to talk about replacement parts things get crazy i have every single record of this car dating back to the original window sticker and the 1200 mile service at a bmw dealer in ohio back in april or may of the year 2000. everything has been kept i've put everything in plastic sleeves and these binders labeled chronologically in a three volume set i'm not going to go through that and show you much more than that just because there's uh definitely sensitive personal information on that paperwork but everything's there and it only looks this crazy because everything is put in a plastic sleeve all of these records would fit in one binder barely without the plastic sleeves so in my first year of ownership i really didn't drive this car very much at all i was learning how to drive i was learning how to drive manual um and i got i didn't get it until july so in those six months it probably only saw maybe a thousand or two thousand miles having said that when it came time for the first oil change i very very quickly learned that i was not going to be able to afford to upkeep this car an oil change at the dealership was somewhere in the neighborhood of four or five hundred dollars and that's that's a basic annual sometimes biannual service so i was a tech guy at the time i had a an old youtube channel where i did technology based videos and people had found me there and ironically that's how i met my friend luke with the avis 2000 he's got some great videos on e39 source he actually found the old technology channel and then we had the shared common interest of cars which was really cool and i don't realize quite how much commonality there is between the car community and the tech world as well so i was nerdy with technology and figured out well i'm gonna get nerdy with cars then you know we'll figure it out as i say today it's all bolts i was fortunate enough that my previous owners had taken quite good care of the car i did not find and have never found any aftermarket components installed on this car everything was original bmw everything was documented everything was clean and neat and how it should be having said that this being a 2000 e39 it was completely stock all pre-facelift all original for those of you who may not know this car as well this is a february 2000 2000 model year e39 m5 finished in silverstone metallic with a silverstone extended leather interior with factory pdc ski bag and split fold seats m audio was not available front pdc was not available as part of the pdc package yet and it does not have the rear sun shades or the factory telephone in fact the car didn't even come with homelink originally i think that was either an option in 2000 or not yet available on the e39 although it was pre-wired so as i discovered that i was going to have to learn how to do service on this car from from something as easy as a brake service to at the time i thought as complicated as changing the brake pads and rotors which i can now do in my sleep but at the time that was a big deal for me so i was fairly resourceful i would go to google and type in 2000 m5 break change diy and find a couple of things out on m5 board and i have to give a good hats off and appreciation a show of respect to the original pioneers the guys out on m5 board that bought these cars new diy'd them put the pictures put the forum threads and posts out there and the diys it was all a beautiful foundation to start on having said that i quickly learned that m5 board was a really really really good resource at the same time it was a really really really frustrating resource now m5 board has been completely redesigned since these early days back in 2010 but i found that if i were looking for the answer to a question i could usually find it but i might have to go through 30 forum pages and take an hour or two to read all these posts from people most of them totally unrelated to the question at hand and and the forums were just they were frustrating you could find what you wanted but it took forever now i mentioned i did technology i did a youtube channel we did reviews we did little diys started with a pc and then migrated to the mac in early 2010 to never look back and uh i thought you know what if what if somebody did like car videos instead of showing how to put an ssd in a macbook pro what if we just did a video on how to change your oil and i go to youtube and i search for that of course there's already some out there but none on the e39 so my goal was to create the content that i wanted to see was to create the content that didn't exist yet and i figured well if i want it if i want to see it then chances are other people might too so youtube.com e39 source was founded september of 2011 so we've been around for nine years now and it started with easy stuff how to take the shifter off you know i was scared of everything at the time this was a 70 something thousand dollar car when it was new i got it for 12. um i didn't want to break it parts were expensive uh even back then though not nearly as much as today so you guys have seen the old videos on this channel they weren't very good they weren't very very processed or edited and they're still not i don't waste time on that i'm just holding a camera here in the shop walking around the car in circles talking about it i think that conveys my point just fine after i got some of the basics done with the car you know when i got it the check engine light came on day two the battery had died it needed cabin filters i kind of thought well the guy took really good care of it but then saw the end coming as unfortunately a lot of people do they kind of just write out a couple months of not worrying about maintenance and then sell it and it's someone else's problem now they weren't big problems of course secondary error we had a misfire we needed spark plugs stuff like that and these were services i had done at my local bmw dealer and wow they were expensive so this just hammered home the fact that i needed to figure this out so with the car up and running no check engine lights all of that working very well i kind of came up with a vision for the car i started to do more research and and look at the really nice examples online and the different colors and learn about the options and what changed based on markets and what changed on production months and my goal for the car has always been a clean oem plus type of look of course everybody wants the 03 everybody facelifts the 2000s and does any part of me regret it no absolutely not because i don't like the 2000 running equipment in retrospect i should have waited and purchased a 2001 plus car when i could afford it but this just fell into my lap it was at the right time at the right price in the right place so i have no regrets with that obviously as you can see today the car presents to be very stock minus you know a couple little things that you enthusiasts will notice euro headlight stuff like that but this is a 2000 car and it's been completely and fully face lifted to the 2003 and some cases 2003 plus spec from about 99 of things there are things there's fasteners that change there's the headliner changed for c-pillar airbags i haven't done things like that but the vast majority of the functional upgrades here have been completed which we'll be looking at throughout the video the first eight years i owned the car in ohio it was daily driven for the first four years or so and if you know anything about ohio those are harsh conditions for a lot of the year i was doing about eight to twelve thousand miles a year half of those in the winter driving it to and from school both high school and then later in college and the rust started to creep in there was none when i got the car i tried to keep it as clean as i could throughout the winter but the salt and constant moisture just was not kind to the common areas we had some bubbles back here that have since been repaired all four rocker panel jack points have been repaired uh the bottom of the driver's door got a little bit of rust on it this corner had some rust we had some bubbles right below the roundel here the gas cap breast got ever so slightly worse we'll take a look at that later this corner as well up here we had a bubble um inside the door jamb right in that corner was a bubble nothing major every year i would spend about a thousand or two thousand dollars and have the card down for two weeks having rust repaired and that got really old and then of course you guys remember the the e46 330xi so i bought a 2002 330xi five-speed really really nice car topaz sand beige m-tec ii sport equipment car and i had that for four years i put about 30 000 miles on that and at that point the m5 became a luxury it became a nice day car it was a garage queen i am not as happy to say that in some years there it only saw two to four thousand miles it was driven quite sparingly but of course i had gone totally overboard in 2013 14 and then 15 and 16 with just dumping money and resources and time into this car trying to make it as perfect as possible you guys may remember a video years ago i had what looked like a grand piano delivered to the house in ohio it was a huge box from ecs tuning that was one of the craziest days one of the craziest months that i've ever had it was so much fun i got four new genuine bmw wheels for this car two rears and two fronts we did the bumpers all the impact trim around the side of the car i mean i can't list everything i've replaced on this car this video would be three hours instead of one or two or whatever this is it was just insane i went around the car and anything that didn't look or present or function in new condition i replaced and i thought these parts were expensive back then some of them are no longer available some of them are many many times the price now if still available so i'm actually really glad i did it then you know i could not afford to do a lot of that stuff now and i wouldn't be able to do a lot of those things now because things like the rear wheels are no longer available you cannot get new rear style 65 wheels this is one of the last batches from i think these went on in about 2014 or 2015 and i'm proud to say they're still in excellent condition speaking in broad general terms though i know i face lifted the tail lights these are the heli european retrofit kit lights so they do run the ballasts replace the rear badging the trunk lid vertical part has been repainted refinished in its entirety we'll talk about mechanicals and upgrades later i've did the wheels all the door trim the mirrors have both been replaced the mirror glass on the passenger side has been replaced since that was bubbling kidney grilles have been replaced both bumpers all the trim headlights fog lights hello euro lci headlights and then the facelift straight glass fog lights not the corrugated 2000s and then inside it has the face lifted steering wheel it has all fresh titan aluminum trim every piece of that was replaced back in maybe 2015 or 16 and that's something that i think it is still available the whole kit's just over three thousand dollars now i paid less than a quarter of that all of these door sills have been replaced and these door cell strips the floor mats the seat trims there's a european dash in here we'll talk a little bit more about that later i've replaced these door handles with the titan ones m audio subs are in the trunk not much in the back there's not a lot to do in the back of these cars gas cap i did the little door part we've got the m5 trunk mat and the cargo net back here mark 4 bm 53 16 by 9 blue bus the m audio subs are up there the little bags one has oil another has detail spray and a towel in it i do keep a set of jumper cables back here more so for me but if anybody else needs them i can help with that as well and then i think over here i did forget the sirius as well so it's it's got the factory sirius in there fun fact a little serious bracket here that was the last one available worldwide is here in this car so let's talk about some of the retrofits you guys have seen all the diys throughout the years some of them are straight um you know american facelift retrofits some of them are european and then some of them are just completely aftermarket so we already mentioned the headlights and the fog lights and the tail lights uh we'll kind of start back here in the trunk i suppose the m audio came out in 2001 i did retrofit the 210n subwoofers but not the rest of the speakers they're still the original dsp speaker since the whole wiring harness would have to change but the m audio speakers are there that was a factory um factory upgrade then this is as well this is an o2 plus thing in fact it's one of the more recent ones i've done the little emergency escape handle for the trunk an aftermarket retrofit would be the ecs led interior light kit which is controversial i tend to like it with the silverstone interior so it does all the interior lights including the glove box and the door puddle lights the trunk lights upper and lower c-pillar lights map light center dome light everything and there's a nice bright white light which i do tend to like this floor mat which i just mentioned is not the genuine bmw that hasn't been available in years this is from shoddy hassan of the e39 m5 owners group on facebook i don't believe he has any more stock left but this is a really really nice addition for the trunk then we already mentioned the the navigation equipment this computer was actually manufactured in 2012 it's one of the last mark iv computers made and bmw used these up through the 2010 e83 x3 so that's why they were still manufacturing them in 2012 so nice fresh computer all the technology in here is just updated as far as it possibly can be without going to i drive or nbt or anything too crazy uh the driver's side the steering wheel facelift is pretty obvious for the o1 plus as well as the shift knob that is the o1 plus black leather illuminated shift knob as well as the e-brake handle in 2000 this car would have come with the titan line shift knob and e-brake handle which all looked like hell within a couple hundred miles they just peeled apart it was a bad design so that's why you have these parts then we have the lcm 3b it's light control module with automatic headlights they're off right now but that would be automatic mode i did that one back a couple months ago and that also uh required changing the rain sensor and the windshield to a rain light sensor we have a hardwire of the valentine one generation two detector i've been an early adopter of that product and love it now that it's working and had to go back for some repairs early on but the v1 g2 is up there and and programmed or hardwired into the car and then you can see the home link module there that's one of the first retrofits i did actually and and the new panel there with the microphone installed for the blue bus and then the cylindrical looking thing on the right side of the windshield is the um dark view 650 dash cam so there's one in the front it constantly records out the front of the car and then in the rear there's a 720p camera up there in the center so i have full running video whenever this car is running this is an aftermarket thing although it looks pretty stock those are the bimion pedals bimian is no longer in business or no longer has an online presence i haven't figured out which which is a real shame because those are the only oem looking pedals that fit in the e39 m5 the m5 is a longer throttle pedal compared to the standard 5 series so the bmw pedals that you buy won't fit and i hate when people bolt them on anyways because they're the wrong pedal so you got to find the m5 ones then the european dashboard we've talked about that in the past but it's a lot slimmer it's several inches slimmer up here you don't sacrifice any glove box space in fact you gain a little storage cubby in there which is super nice to stick your wallet you can still access the obd2 port no problem complete with the euro steering column trim and the euro pedal box ceiling as i always call it so it's a mostly stock looking interior you know it isn't completely stock with the euro dash and the the technically aftermarket pedals we've also done the retrofit of the facelift hvac panel so that says max ac instead of rest and then we've retrofit front pdc so you can see i added the panel here with the pdc button the 2000 cars option s508 pdc only included the four rear ultrasonic sensors so i've retrofit the front sensors here using all genuine bmw components and it works just like an a1 plus car would with front sensors common question i get is how can you tell it's still a 2000 what are the things that give it away if you're really really really nerdy you would know that silverstone was a color that was only offered in the year 2000 and 2001. in september 2001 for the 2002 model year bmw replaced silverstone metallic with blue water metallic which ironically is a bit more silver less blue whereas silverstone is more blue less silver and if i'm honest my preferred choice between those colors otherwise obviously looking at the vin tag here in the b-pillar or the uh vin on the windshield will show that it is indeed a february 2000 produced car that's bravo zulu niner five five four zero for anybody who cares otherwise one thing that gives it away as an earlier car would be the rear pdc sensors which are still original notice they have a flat top and bottom to the sensor those were the i believe 2000 and 2001 sensors in 2002 we'll take a look at canon's car here being an o2 the sensor is completely round yeah that is nitpicking at its finest but a way you can tell it's an earlier car another thing that i've covered up is if you look at the sunroof switch here it kind of shows we'll try to get focused on this it shows the sunroof cracked from the perspective of the driver's side of the car the early cars this was inverted it showed the sunroof cracked from the passenger point of view of the car yeah that's a real thing as we still talk about cosmetics let me apologize for just being all over the place it's been a long 10 years and an expensive 10 years and it's going to be impossible to put all this in order but i'm trying to focus on the cosmetic things right now before we get into aftermarket or performance or mechanical uh work that i've done to the car and there's there's no limit of that uh believe you me but anyways i've replaced actually face lifted all of these door seals yes there's a face lift for the door seals they added a kind of a enhanced or a strengthened part when this door is closed and that seal sits flat it would put stress on these outer corners so there's a bit of a texture there compared to the smooth outside of it so these things this was actually done about a week before i got the car i'm guessing this was all torn up like most of these e39s get so this has been on there for 10 years and it's not torn open yet it does show a little bit of wear down here but eventually that's probably something i'll get to be replacing again so i've done all four of those to the facelift ones i mentioned the sills and the trim and i've done all this black plastic trim on the seat the ones in the back too just any of those little components that you know i would do a job and and take something out or take it apart and if the parts were cheap and affordable and available i just order them too replace all the hardware i've replaced the hood latch and little the little dead pedal and stuff like all the stuff in here that at the time was so affordable to do so i just try to keep this car as fresh as possible including all the window switches i've done this panel as well i actually damaged it when taking it out so now i've got a fresh one nice and matte black of course the mirrors do fold seeing that they've been replaced and that's when i was able to get these mirrors for i think about 80 bucks a piece with the actuator the glass has always been expensive this glass is actually original the other glass was about 350 a couple years ago i painted the mirrors put new hardware new gaskets in there new trim and i'm really glad i did that because now these mirrors are something like twelve hundred dollars a piece before paint back here i mean i've done very little in the back seat as i mentioned before but i did do all the door handles all the titan trim all the window switches original ashtray they've never been used this car has never been smoked in all the leather in this car was actually replaced in 2003 i have the service records for it right before the warranty expired it just said customer states leather not black enough so they replaced every stitch of leather in this car in 2003. how he got that done i don't know what not black enough means i don't know but i'm fortunate that the interior is three years newer than the car it's held up a little bit better i guess back seats are always a nice shape i have done all of the plastics back here so the speaker grills the little child safety things and this trim the vents in the back all of that stuff's been replaced and then i'm fortunate that the previous owner had window tint installed in 2003 or 2005. i want to say 2003 right after he bought the car from the original owner this is not the original tint i've had it re-tented but since these since the windows have been tinted for the vast majority of this car's life even in ohio it's really saved the interior namely the alcantara rear deck the back of the headrest stuff like that it's just saved that from getting baked and faded and bleached out by the uv rays of the sun so when i got to california here within a couple months of moving here i had that old lumar film removed it was a non-ceramic early early early film and then i had the car re-tinted in lumar formula one uh pinnacle or stratos i don't recall which one it was it's whatever the better one was i just went with the best tint it's a california car it spends a lot of time outside and this is a 35 window tint all the way around all the side windows and the rear window i didn't do the sunroof because i keep this the slider closed and i didn't do the windshield yet that's something that this car will be getting in the future will be a fresh windshield this one's from 2011. it's very very very pitted the biggest chip i don't even know that we'll see it on camera yeah we can the biggest chip is there it's not bad there's no cracks in it and this is this is clean that's not dust those are all just little pucks from the highway so eventually we'll get fresh glass in here and at that point i will film the front windshield as well to keep heat out in the meantime since getting here to california i picked up this bmw sun shade that i put in the car at all times when it's parked just to keep the direct light off the seats and dashboard back to the trunk years ago i replaced a lot of the cosmetics back here so this piece of trim i remember thinking it was expensive at 80 dollars i think it's over 400 now replace this i replaced the handle all the hardware i did this opening guard as well it's showing a little bit of wear now there but it's still very usable this this thing was like 300 now it might be 600 so i've done all of that i love when people look at this car and they go in and they go out of it and they're like what do you have like 20 000 miles on this and i get to tell them it's over 200 000 miles now and uh since everything has been not only cared for and replaced as it starts to show age but now my philosophy of this is i'm just i'm super careful with it you know i use the car a lot i put a bike in the back of this thing pretty much every other weekend fold the seats down go to coronado ride 30 miles but that thing is wrapped in so many towels it looks like a mummy more than a bike so you can use a car use it pretty well but also take care of it you just have to be careful well we're back here let's take a peek in the tool kit i got all the tools from the second owner when i got the car but i have added a couple tools that didn't come with it in fact there's only one tool missing and that would be the blue cloth that american cars didn't come with in the first place but this is the correct european warning triangle i have the wheel key in here the screwdriver the channel locks the wheel hanger spark plug tool tow hook two spanner sunroof crank 10 millimeter socket everything is here minus the blue cloth and if i ever find one of those i'll buy it i'll pay what it costs i just can't find them they haven't existed now in decades in the trunk here i've replaced the battery uh two or three times in in my ownership um only once due to complete failure the other two were just it was old i was at the dealer i saw a battery it's like okay let's put a fresh battery and it's been six years right now it's the black bmw one which is supposed to be a lot better um i see i need to do some vacuuming down here my apologies there is the original um what is it bmw m mobility system and the original goggles back there if i had more hands i would dig that out but that is in there it's never been used all the styrofoam is still there it's just all the original equipment that came with the car is still in place which i really like and then i added this cargo net several years ago i never really liked the way it looked but i'll tell you i do really appreciate the functionality it adds being a 2000 model year it did come with the rear cup holders which of course were broken when i got the car so these have been replaced in my ownership with genuine bmw parts in addition to the front ones every single feature and function of this car works as designed there's nothing broken there's no broken plastic there's no oh don't press that button because it won't work it'll make noise no everything works everything's how it's supposed to be i hate when stuff doesn't work all of these are original and and go up nice and quietly and smoothly into their position i have replaced this little door here a couple times when that breaks this handle's been done at least once this tray has been done once the 16 by nine bezel has been done unbelievably those center vents are all original in addition to the vent over here and vent over there and the rear vent in fact all the vents in this car are still original somehow the one that really shocks people that is still original are all the window regulators i have not changed one window regulator on this car i have no service history of any of the regulators ever failing or needing to be replaced in 214 000 miles now which is impressive given the fact that early e39s are known for having crap window regulators and no it's not because they're not used i use the windows on this car pretty much every day now in california year-round they all go down they all go up they're all quiet they all work many years ago back in ohio the the instrument cluster the original one with black gauges had all the pixels go out so bmw north america goodwill the good portion of it and i had my local dealer install code and program the gray gauges after that shortly after that i replaced the instrument cluster bezel the fog light switch we can see the rear fog light switches that three o'clock position or 230 position on that switch which is kind of neat that i did replace the headlight switch headlight switch bezel headlight switch knob dimmer potentiometer tpms button just all of those plastics have been refreshed during my ownership of this car and everything in here for the most part feels pretty fresh and new the center console tray here has wireless charging in it so as i place my iphone 11 pro down in there as i start driving it charges my phone wirelessly and completely cleanly that is a plug-and-play diy i put up on e39 source months ago and it actually plugs into the phone cables in here so you could remove it from this car and never know that it was there before but i have replaced that trim as well that little door pops up quietly and smoothly which i appreciate the sunroof is original as far as i know it's never been serviced it's never been replaced now that i say that it will probably fail soon and i really really really don't look forward to having to replace that someday it's very expensive and it's not fun labor the headliner is all original in this car i'm thankful that it came with the alcantara in 2000 alcantara was a cost option in 2001 due to supply chain issues 2001 it became standard so i do have it in here i did replace one of the a-pillars one of the clips broke and it was bowing in the middle it's not perfect now but it's absolutely better than it was in full disclosure the headliner does sag in the normal spots and that's been a product of california unfortunately if you open those visors it is not as tight up in this lip as i would like it to be one day as that worsens i will likely peel that down and re-glue it or replace the whole headliner if that's even a feasible option i don't really want to do that but if i got to do the sunroof we'll have to see then back here i had this corner start to sag that was the first place that started to let go and thankfully it was real close to the edge so i was able to peel that down spray some spray adhesive in there put it back together there's no wrinkles it's actually really really nice clean repair so that's been done okay we're going to pop the hood now start to talk about some of the mechanicals that's uh that have been changed upgraded replaced on this car as i mentioned oem plus is the goal so i'm not looking for um you know bright red chassis braces or strut tower braces stuff like that super loud exhaust i'm not into that i just want a oem plus clean mostly stock looking car and that's what i've attempted to build here so this engine is not the original engine to this car as many of you may remember in 2016 purely preventatively at exactly 192 000 miles i purchased a 2002 engine from good old atom atom bashrock clemster on m5 board this engine is out of a 2002 carbon black m5 it had 122 732 000 miles on it and then i took it to my mechanic back in ohio and initially we were just planning on refreshing the engine fresh valve cover gaskets resealed the bottom of the pan replace some sensors that are tricky to get to when the engine's in the car and of course it turned into more than that and and before i knew it um we had completely rebuilt this engine minus seven of the piston rings one was damaged upon removal so cylinder i think six has a fresh piston ring on it but everything else has been done every rubber every sensor every bearing every bushing so at exactly 192. so we now have about 23 000 miles or so on this engine and it's it's run absolutely beautifully it doesn't burn any oil it sounds great it's a joy to drive so that was the biggest thing of course done to this engine now the original engine at 192 did consume a little bit of oil being an earlier 2000 car but it made great power it sounded really good it leaked a little bit but we took that engine out and i ended up selling it to somebody who opened it up he was going to just refresh the timing chain guides and connecting rod bearings which were original at 192 and he asked me when i did them he said no they're original 192. he couldn't believe how clean they were there everything in there was in good shape so i i could have gotten several more years on that original engine but this is an o2 so it's got the updated vanos diaphragm springs the updated piston rings it's a nice quiet engine i had dr vanos machine the splines does not leak a drop of anything the belly pan is spotless you can eat off of that which i love and then i've replaced some of the pretty things under here to make it look nice again so we've got fresh beauty covers on there the dipstick's been replaced expansion tanks been replaced fan shroud gasket this lid this lid and reservoir the bushings for that the upper and lower air boxes snorkels the firewall trim that reservoir abs module has been rebuilt by abs or by module masters of course fresh filters everywhere these are k n filters in there i always used castrol 10w60 that's all the oil the old engine had and for it to be then that go to shape at 192. i will never question that i will always run castrol 1060. and i'm seeing something right now that does give this car away as a 2000 if you want to leave a comment let me know that would be funny if somebody else is nerdy enough to know but that filler neck for the washer fluid is the 2000 filler neck with an 01 plus lid on it the lid should be that light color in 2001 bmw changed this filler that goes down to the reservoir for the washer fluid to a black one and i actually have a couple of them over on one of the shelves here at the shop i could face lift that i just think there's better ways to use my time than tearing the fender liner out to replace this and honestly this one is more stable this one doesn't bend around very much the black one always hangs down and lays at an angle it runs into these brake lines so this is kind of a better design albeit not as pretty if you're curious service work on the original engine at 192 it came out of the car in 2008 because it had carbon buildup carbon build up is extremely overrated on these cars it turns the check engine light on people think it's a problem it doesn't affect anything just tune it out code it out i wrote an article on the website e39source.com if you'd like to read more of my thoughts on that please visit the website but the engine was removed at that point to have the carbon channels drilled out at that time they replaced the head gaskets the valve cover gaskets they resealed the engine put it back in that's why it ran so well for so long it had had a pretty big service done before clutch was replaced at 8 000 miles it must have been a lemon then again at 108 in 2008 when the when the motor was taken out for that work and then when i had this engine built and fitted to this car um it was a lot more than an engine rebuild i did we ended up rebuilding the majority of the driveline replacing the clutch again drive shaft with a fresh u-joint i mean anything we took out to get the engine out we pretty much replaced we got new brake lines all over the entire car new rear control arms we had the subframe out we did the subframe bushings to the differential bushings um i mean you you name it it's been done the rear little dust covers in the back were rusty so i replaced those i've done rotors maybe three times in my ownership with 66 000 miles i do run the hawk hps pads although i won't be using those again they used to be silent they bite really hard and really nice and they didn't used to make much dust now they squeak they make a ton of dust although they do still stop very well in the past couple hawk sets i've had have done this they're not as good as they once were so if you have a brake pad recommendation i require them to stop the car very well their brakes they have to stop the car well um i would prefer that they're quiet and um really it's it's the dust that i'm looking for i don't want dust i'll take noise over dust i could spend all day going around the car showing you what's been done and rebuilt mostly preventatively um people get the wrong idea i say oh yeah i've rebuilt the engine i've replaced this i put it low mileage differential and it's a stock 3.15 lsd but it's from a 50 000 mile car instead of 190 000 mile car and people think wow what a lemon it's been so unreliable that couldn't be further from the truth this car has never left me anywhere it's never not started aside from the battery died it's it's never overheated it's never done anything that most m5s do to their owners i've never even been stranded by a bad fuel pump before uh probably because i replace everything preventively so of course it doesn't happen but i've done all of this because i want a bulletproof reliable fun to drive beautiful clean sleek stock looking car here in california that was my goal for eight years in ohio is to get this thing ready to daily drive here and i'm so proud to say that it's done it it's never skipped a beat it's been driven about 16 000 miles in the past year and a half here in california and i've enjoyed every single one of them okay let's talk about some of the aftermarket or performance modifications that have been done to the car so we'll start at the back these are eisenman race 4 by 76 millimeter mufflers i had the sport versions for a short period of time i don't even think those should exist the race isn't that much louder it's the sound it should be i ran that system with stock headers stock cats and a stock resonator for a year or two and decided as it was a secondary car at the time i wanted a little bit more so at that point the rogue engineering diablo resonated x-pipe i had that installed and that gave me exactly what i want i love the sound of this car it doesn't drone it's not too much i can drive this car with grandma on the front seat around quietly and nobody looks at you or in between buildings in a in a parking deck or under an overpass you can let the thing rev to 7000 rpm and it just screams it's exotic it sounds like a ferrari otherwise i still have stock headers i don't plan to change that i know the headers are the weak point they were designed for the m60 v8 on the e32 740 something like that back in the 80s you can change them and easily unlock 40 to 60 horsepower one i don't think the car needs it and two i've never heard headers that i like the sound of i just don't like the way they sound they sound like an american muscle car and while that's awesome in an american muscle car i do not want it in my four-door bmw and then i did replace the cats actually for their second time they were done under warranty in about 2004 2005. and then the same cats that ran from o5 until just a few weeks ago are here they really show damage from the ohio corrosive elements and they were just starting to rattle these casings got loose and they were rubbing together in the middle so we pulled those off and then i had a nice set of lower mileage cats off a california car that i put in place i think we will get under the car shortly in this video but i've done the eibach rear sway bar the beast power brackets we have ecs stainless brake lines at all four wheels plus the two short ones under the hood that's imperative you guys have to do those if you haven't yet i have the e60 545i short shifter in the car um with the uuc dssr which is a really nice addition and that i do have uuc transmission mounts which i don't love i wouldn't recommend those they transmit a little bit too many or too much noise but that's pretty much all that's after market underneath the car i think and then under the hood as i mentioned before there's just k n air filters and everything else under here is original or genuine bmw then of course the pedals are aftermarket we talked about the interior led lights and then i do have led halo bulbs in don't we all the yellow ones just really look dated to me in the nice approximately 6000 kelvin 10 watt leds i think really improve the look of the front of the car and then matching the bright white halo bulbs and xenons i've got the ziza 6000 kelvin fog lights from uh frog light bulbs from ecs in there i hear that they don't last very long but they've been in there for seven years i use them all the time and they work fine and both front and rear turn signals i'm running i believe they're philips silverstar 21w bulbs which are a clear ball but they still illuminate orange so you don't see the orange i just i didn't like the whole orange thing so i with the the euro headlights here we don't have any orange on the corners you can't even see the orange and the signal bulbs because they're cleared out but they still look completely stock as they're flashing i'll turn them on in a moment i've turned on the rear fog lights here those are the inners those are not a visual style statements those are to be used for utility only then we can get a nice look inside the tail lights here we don't see a big orange dot in there in the middle for the bulb it's just a clean clean look that i really really really prefer over the orange ones and i'll turn the hazards on now so we can get a look at that and see that they do indeed look completely stock and orange when flashing oh and then here in the back i do have they're from ebay believe it or not uh i think they're three by eight array led license plate lights they don't throw any lights just modernizes the whole back of the car it's a nice bright crisp white light as opposed to those dim yellow ones that they came with 20 years ago also psa check your side lights a lot of times the the orange paint on these bulbs is flaking off and those are are flashing in a bright white color and they look terrible the bulbs are super cheap just get some on ecs tuning or from the dealer and replace those bulbs and you'll restore a nice crisp full orange light as it's supposed to be then a small visual modification from the back the rear diffuser is not missing no it's painted black it's bmw jet black paint code 668 i believe which to me really thins out the rear of the car looks more aggressive i just i really like the black diffuser on this i think it's a must-have for light colored cars kenan liked it so his is also black software that's something i hadn't mentioned this car is tuned with the shark injector i did that years ago to code out the secondary air flow to low code it's a stock 7000 rpm redline it is a 91 octane tune now here in california we don't have 93. back in ohio i ran the 93.2 and then detuned it for california i didn't notice a difference euro throttle settings and no sport mode memory i should have done that but nice little tune i definitely recommend it do you notice 30 horsepower no cars fast either way we'll get the car out in the sun in a little bit but i did just last week find this little sticker on there from c quartz which is kind of cool so it shows that the car has been coated and since i've had it coated i've detailed it twice with my normal spray wax my friday routine and what a difference it makes not only visually i mean the car was nice before the paint was in pretty good shape but it was hazy there were places that you couldn't you could hold your watch up to it not read the time it was just you know swirled it was i haven't washed this car in three years or so people always look at me like i'm crazy when i say that because it's generally clean once a week i spray wax the car use a waterless wash it's called xeno z6 i know you shouldn't do it when the car is dusty you're just grinding all of that into the paint and it'll get bad again because i hate washing cars it takes me forever they run water all the time and i just don't have the patience for it so i'm not going to do it so every friday now i spray the car down and very carefully with several using several high plush towels go through the whole thing and wipe it clean and the car doesn't see rain it doesn't see any other elements it has not yet been dirty enough in the past couple years to warn to wash if it were really dirty of course i would wash it stripping off all the old wax and then compounding the paint it's more blue it's less green it's less yellow the xeno always kind of added a tint of the full xeno process i used to do of several coats of wax would add a slight tint of green or yellow with that gone it's just clear optically clear bright silver stone as i said we'll get it in the sun you can see it shine and then the whole back of the car where they always spit carbon even with a fresher engine all of that really lightened up and just cleared up and it's shiny and beautiful now also on the wheels you may notice the facelift 2002 plus center caps and then when i replaced these wheels i got new m badges wheel studs and wheel lock kit as well as the bmw valve stems and of course michelin pilot sport 4s tires now well the key is on we'll take a look inside of course all the pixels work now current mileage 214 443 nice bright instrument cluster i think since it was replaced in like 2011 and 12 13 something like that compared to a lot of the other ones i i'm around all the time now this is significantly brighter which is a nice touch over here we can see we've got a pretty full array of options here on the screen the telephone is thanks to the blue bus and then code will light up if i put the key back in position one the blue bus looks like this you guys have seen the video on the channel i will do a video on how to update it now that there's some software updates out we can see it's connected with the green light up here it gives us all the metadata and a new feature we can see the coolant temp digitally then of course being a mark iv we can head over to navigation and see the map in perspective view i'll show you the wireless charging i always put my phone in backwards but i just pop it down in there like that and the phone immediately wakes up and charges from the front seat here we'll demonstrate some of the things up here this this is real hard to get out but it does come out it's never been used both cup holders work and i have i use them about once a year for something very carefully just to exercise them a little bit that still works i've never actually seen that motor fail before i've never tried the tape deck in this head unit so i'm not sure if that works but probably does then the glove box i've got all the books the user guide the washing booklet the mechanical booklet that thing's totally full the flashlight does work i have the flashlight adapter too it's just not in the car right now that would turn that into another power port i still keep the old school peak r5 fcx3 in there and then a adapter from the round under the hood pin to the obd2 just in case i'm out on the road and check engine light or something comes on and i need to reset something that has happened once since the engine rebuild and it turned out to be a bad math so i reset the light and then replace the math when i got home or a couple days after and no problems since the airbag recall has been done that is a recalled takata which is good to know parking brake's been rebuilt so it's super tight three or four clicks will all but lock the wheels as the car is driving hold it on any incline that i've been able to find the e6545i short shifter is real nice very little play in it i've been super happy with that this is an original transmission at 214 000 miles uh which is cool okay a few more things here um we're going to show you the car outside in the sunlight we'll do that in a minute we're going to put it up on this lift i'll show you some of the some of the aftermarket things underneath and the car is not completely rust-free it escaped ohio but not without a few signs chassis underneath some of the welds shows some light bubbling there's nothing too serious or structural nothing i'm even going to bother repairing seeing seeing that the car doesn't see any sort of moisture anymore but we'll get a look under there and then right now i'm going to talk about future plans what's next for the car so i just had it paint corrected and protected i do plan on respraying this car someday and this may be five is maybe 10 years away the paint is good but it is not as nice as i would like it to be there's definitely a bunch of chips up front in the hood now the biggest one happened within 100 miles of having it repainted back in 2011 right on that corner there it's filled with some paint but you can still see it the front bumper has been painted since it was replaced the hood's been painted this bottom of this door below the impact strip's been painted both rockers have been repainted both rear quarters from the body line down have been repainted and i have to say that the paint match is about a 9.2 out of 10. you can see it's a hair darker than the rest of the car some of it's in lighting but it is a little bit darker and then the quality of the paint finish in terms of not being able to see a real seam it's totally smooth it's it's very very very good paintwork rear bumper's been done diffuser has been done vertical part of the trunk lid this quarter panel this rocker panel and i think that is about it in both mirrors all the pillars and roof are original so i'd like to repaint it it'll be the same color probably do inside the door jams knowing me this will be done years from now which is why i was able to justify a coating for protection here you know when i do it i want this car to be a secondary car live in a garage all the time it's just a couple years down the road still to my knowledge this rear windshield gasket is original and how it's only just now like today was the first time a piece of it flaked off as i wiped out the rear window so that will need to be replaced i have no patience for a flaking gasket a little bit of texture in it over here too and i've actually had the gasket on hand now for a couple of weeks we're going to do cannons as well so i have two outer gaskets and two bottom gaskets we'll get those nice and fresh soon i wish years ago i had replaced all of this shadow chrome trim i didn't it was expensive then it's even more expensive now i would love to have a fresh set of that i have a couple imperfections in it nothing crazy uh just some chips from use a couple little rust bubbles here and there uh very minor like that corner down there i would love to replace that trim all the way around the car and this gasket in here in these little gaskets and that's something that is not pressing at all maybe that's something that's done with a with a respray of the whole car since likely that stuff will all have to come apart and then i had mentioned the windshield i'll put a new pilkington probably piece of glass in here with a new rain light sensor prism we'll move the sensor over like to replace the wiper arms the plastic is starting to fade a bit to gray so maybe we'll consider that in the future if they're at all available or affordable and then i will definitely do the cowling cowling hardware and a fresh oem gasket around the perimeter of the windshield when the windshield's done likely later this calendar year here in 2020. i also noticed today in the front hood roundel which is also original to the best of my knowledge at about four o'clock there's just some discoloring in the black it looks like something sticky got on there and then somebody tried to wipe it off and it scratched it super super minor if it starts to to peel or bubble or anything i'll replace it otherwise i could probably live with that for now i couldn't even get the camera to see it and then lastly with future plans here sometime fairly soon i would like to have some interior reconditioning done in the way of leather work particularly this door handle here i used swissvacs leather cleaner on it years ago is way too strong and it really made it worse than it was before it's it's showing its age a little bit there it's clean but the leather could use some some i don't know i'm not a leather specialist it needs to be repaired same thing over here the driver's seat you guys have never seen this it's the worst part on the car this bolster here is not yet torn open but it absolutely needs some work in the way of fresh leather panels or reconditioning or sealing or i don't know i'm not a leather specialist but we'll get that taken care of now also in the way of protection here this car does have some clear film on it i did not clear film the hood because it already has too many chips to warrant putting expensive film over i will do that after it's painted like when this car is painted one day and years i'll have the whole thing baked we're going to clear up the entire thing it'll be bomb proof more or less but before i came here to california i had the front bumper filmed with expel ultimate plus whatever the latest expel was at the time so that has film on it the front headlights have film the fog lights have film didn't do the fenders they will get repainted and filmed as well the mirrors have been filmed within a hundred miles of being here i got a nice big chip um in the film and i thought it went through to the paint when they had that when they did the paint correction a few weeks ago i had them peel the mirror film off and then re-film them and i can't believe that it didn't actually go through the film so this mirror now looks perfect again and this film installation job is much better than before there used to be a big seam right here now the seams only over here and you can barely see it so the mirrors are filmed and then one thing i definitely wanted to do before i got here was film these door handles and i did all four of them you can barely see it or feel it it's a little bit shinier maybe than the paint but i've seen way too many california cars where the paint starts to to crack and fade um it's it's a really common thing so i've got nice film over that to protect the handles i even had some c quartz in here there's a little bit of rust that's all from ohio i'm not gonna bother fixing that until the the car receives more bodywork this is uh seaquarts in there now so hopefully that'll slow that down even more and then there's no film in the back i also found these stickers on top of the windshield here in both corners stating that the car is protected by c quartz excuse the wind and been outside here but i did want to show you the paint out here in the sun it just lights up we're right outside the shop here in escondido california in north san diego county it's a beautiful day in august about three hours after a fresh detail so it's just nice and blue and under the california sun and against the blue sky it just it's never looked this good before you know after the 18 hour 46 000 coats of xeno waxes it looked good it was very glossy it was debatably smoother and shinier than this but the the clarity the optical clarity and light reflection here is just awesome and i couldn't be happier with the with the c quartz product so far um you know this is a good color for showing or for hiding rather swirls but with the coating on it like this now and then after a uh more importantly after a compounding and paint correction yeah it's still scratched up it's still a 20 year old car still chips in it it's not perfect but i really like how it looks now [Applause] [Music] i am on the verge of having a dead battery i wonder why so we'll try to be fairly quick here but we'll get a look under the car we can see that black diffuser again then we see the eisenman race mufflers my all-time favorite on this car i do about once every three months kind of just wipe things down under here inspect the suspension look for any leaks or seeps stuff like that just keep an idea of what's going on under the car so we see the mufflers and then we see the beautiful rogue engineering x-pipe and you'll notice that all of the plastic trays and pans and panels that are supposed to be here are here they've all been replaced with the exception of the skinny little runners that go down the side of the chassis these the fuel filter cover the mirroring one the patrick star and then the engine belly pan have all been replaced at some point they were all here originally just cracked or dirty or washed out whole i replaced things at nearly the first sign of wear chassis braces center exhaust brace have been replaced exhaust bushings in the rear there's the eibach sway bar we have the purple bushings back here for the diff front and rear the beast power brackets the sway bar has a couple rust spots on it which is funny because this has never been wet under here this car has not been wet underneath in at least six years now yet parts i've replaced within that time period still rust i suppose due to condensation cleaned up a lot of the places that you typically see grease sling and stuff like that i've just kept that clean rear upper control arms have been done um in fact the entire suspension on this car has been replaced with oe quality parts with the exception of the rear integral links those are original and the front springs are original they're not rusty they're not sagging and they're not cracked so i don't see a reason to replace them there's powerflex bushings in these h arms both front and rear of the h arm and then the diff bushings factory subframe bushings clean battery box some rust on the welds like we talked about before i talked about before there's the new cats new to me cats the transmission does seep between the gearbox and the bell housing so next time that's out for clutch i'll reseal that it's not enough that it ever drips it's just kind of oily under here and i check the level about once a year there's those uc trans mounts that i don't love i'll put factory ones back in there of course i've done the whole driveline i've done the csb the cv joint at the end of the drive shaft the flex disc up here we even had to do these heat shields here the holes had washed out so they were still available so i just got new ones for both sides um anytime i do this work i replace hardware i just think it's a better way to go about it and then up in the front clean underside of the bumper which i'm proud of i um you know these cars look better lowered maybe an inch three quarters of an inch to an inch and a quarter but they're not nearly as functional especially here in california with the hills and the rougher roads this i'll scrape on if i'm not careful if i know it's coming slow down just a hair it's fine uh low cars scrape all the time and these underbody panels are just expensive and i would hate to go through that so i leave it at a stock height and the battery died on the other camera so we're gonna switch to an iphone i apologize for the different video and audio quality here done the front wheel bearings done the rear wheel bearings done the hubs all the bushings all the brackets all the usual suspects the only things calling my attention under here right now as i mentioned are the gearbox to bell housing seep and then this tie rod has the slightest crack in this boot so i have a set of fresh tie rods here at the shop i'm just waiting for an opportunity to put them in i'm debating replacing these uh big curved control arms again just due to the fact it's been about 30 000 miles that seems to be as long as they last and there's the slightest crack in there don't have any of the wobble no vibrations no problems yet but as i've said i try to be proactive with that so we'll probably get to that later this year at some point and get a fresh alignment i'm going to try the 0.5x on the iphone and yes i'm laying on the shop floor under the car so hopefully i live to tell about it but that's the underside i don't really think i've filmed very much of uh this car from this angle before for the channel so there it is i'll also call a quick note to those fuel lines here i've replaced all the fuel lines in this car from the tank up to the engine through the filter and the pressure regulator the venturi hose in the tank the tank straps just all of this stuff was crusty after ohio and you know that the subframe's been out and reinforced that front diff mount was reinforced with the dinan plate i just i want to have this car a really long time so whenever i do work i replace hardware replace that too well while you're in there those are the most expensive terms that you'll hear because you know they dig into the car and well well we're in there we could replace the fuel pump too it's like yeah i don't have a record of it get it done hey it looks like i didn't get an ending clip so it's mid-week now it's tuesday i've driven the car a little bit so you're gonna see some bugs and stuff on here now but um i just wanted to get this video out here you know 10 years i can't believe it it's totally flown by 10 years ago i didn't know how to turn a screwdriver or a wrench and it's i'm not some master mechanic or anything now but it's been a hell of a ride as i mentioned at the top the people i've met and the the opportunities and the business venture and all this stuff has just been it's been really really really cool so i look forward to your comments down below leave me some constructive criticism i always welcome it if you have any recommendations of future retrofittings repairs replacements enhancements anything like that i'm always open to hear that so i look forward to reading those comments we'll talk in a future e39 source video take care [Music] you

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Published: Sat Aug 15 2020