First EU-Spec M5 F10 with Manual 6spd?

best-perf · 04-23-2013, 10:12 AM

Hi all,

I found that beauty today searching through Polish Classifieds and it gave me a hard time to discover what's wrong with it?

http://otomoto.pl/bmw-m5-manual-gwar...28870665.html# (if there's a problem with the link just tell me)

It's surely an EU-spec, owner wrote about European Warranty till 2016, so it excludes import from Canada (what I was thinking about at first, seeing gagues in km/h). Maybe it's just a SUPER SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL version for a loyal client with strong connections in BMW Munich?

best-perf · 04-23-2013, 02:32 PM

anybody?

NISFAN · 04-23-2013, 02:37 PM

Yes there is A LOT wrong with that M5.........manual

best-perf · 04-23-2013, 02:39 PM

aren't the gauges just a display, which you can swich from EU to US spec?

NISFAN · 04-23-2013, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by best-perf

aren't the gauges just a display, which you can swich from EU to US spec?

Temps are degrees C too

hinckley · 04-23-2013, 08:39 PM

Could it be that the exterior and interior pics are not the same car? Exterior is def not a North American spec (no side reflectors), but manual is only available in NA?

M54ccibo · 04-23-2013, 10:09 PM

Speedo is km/h, and engine temp is in Celsius. Thinking that that this is likely real.

uhn2000 · 04-23-2013, 10:52 PM

A great car in MT.

s4awd · 04-24-2013, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by uhn2000

A great car in MT.

Yup. One of the few magazines where I don't take a grain of salt when reading agrees as well

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evoc...al_review.html

hinckley · 04-24-2013, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by M54ccibo

Speedo is km/h, and engine temp is in Celsius. Thinking that that this is likely real.

Don't forget, Canadian M5 6MTs are also fitted like that. However, Canadian cars also have the US DOT front side reflectors.

M54ccibo · 04-24-2013, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by hinckley

Don't forget, Canadian M5 6MTs are also fitted like that. However, Canadian cars also have the US DOT front side reflectors.

True, true...I was considering both photos with my "likely real" comment. Guess it could have been possible to import the Canadian M5 and replace the front bumper to remove the reflectors?

hinckley · 04-24-2013, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by M54ccibo

True, true...I was considering both photos with my "likely real" comment. Guess it could have been possible to import the Canadian M5 and replace the front bumper to remove the reflectors?

Possible. Seems pretty extreme considering how easy it is to replace amber reflectors with body color ones.

I'm sticking with exterior and interior pics are from different cars.

M54ccibo · 04-24-2013, 08:09 PM

Definitely most plausible explanation is two different photos...

RPiM5 · 04-24-2013, 08:24 PM

I'm not so sure it's a real EuroSpec. The owner may have somehow bought a US Spec 6spd Manual and converted it with a Euro Front Bumper and a Euro Speedometer. Notice that there is no button for the rear fog lights as you would find on a true Euro Spec.

Also two more ways to determine if it is Euro Spec is to see if it has Adjustable Side Bolsters on the front seats and the button for the Adaptive Head Lights.

best-perf · 04-25-2013, 07:22 AM

That makes sense for me, but how the heck he got her proper EU warranty?!

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RPiM5 Major General 3164 Rep 7,940 Posts Drives: Black M5 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Earth 616 iTrader: (0)	I'm not so sure it's a real EuroSpec. The owner may have somehow bought a US Spec 6spd Manual and converted it with a Euro Front Bumper and a Euro Speedometer. Notice that there is no button for the rear fog lights as you would find on a true Euro Spec. Also two more ways to determine if it is Euro Spec is to see if it has Adjustable Side Bolsters on the front seats and the button for the Adaptive Head Lights. __________________
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