What did you do to your M5 today?

[cdd]

Productive first weekend day with the M5.


Swapped start button for red (stock button text was wearing). Thanks Ickdeep for the video link!

Swapped chrome side grills for gloss black. I think it looks a ton better

Swapped chrome rear badge for gloss black.


Next up, swap the front and rear reflectors. Then get the roof wrapped.

[GlenM5]

Had the splitters painted and installed 😁

[black_F10M5]

Originally Posted by GlenM5

Had the splitters painted and installed 😁

these look great! they have a different shape than the RKP. where did you find them?

[Fyourticket]

Just another Sunday 😬

[Ickdeep]

Autocross!!!

[GlenM5]

Originally Posted by black_F10M5

these look great! they have a different shape than the RKP. where did you find them?

These are eBay specials, but they look pretty good. I didn't want the carbon look so I got them painted. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/For-BMW-...kAAOSwVCpcGvxz

Thanks

[BeachM5nster]

Just installed these. shopped the RKP mcrae splitters for 6 months. decided i didnt like them but fang splitters were better than all the other lips that just make it look like a flat bottom 528 bumper.. so i dont understand those tongue lips and etc at all. it dumbs down/mutes the front silhouette

i lucked out on some possibly RW splitters that the distributor just didnt know what they were.. $140.. ebay..

fit perfect and looks good with the jutted step.. the rkp was too spoon-ey and pointy for me

[Ickdeep]

Rear carbon fiber diffuser installed

[nencmeister]

Epic failure of a day. Was supposed to be a nice long day working on my baby. The diffuser I bought was too small.. the vendor mislabeled it, now on to the back and forth.

But.. also tried to do my coils and plugs myself. Should have listened to my neighbor, guy comes to check out what I'm doing, he says "oh boy, I could never do that myself, good luck"

Anyways all sorts of lights came on, yadah yadah, could be anything. Engine starts extremely loud, then shuts off with a drivetrain malf, could be anything.. DME, coil, spark plug, spark plug gap..

Going to take it in to a German auto shop near me, to embarrassed to call the dealer LOL

I knew there was a massive chance of failure but I still went through with it as a challenge. Lesson learned, now hopefully I didn't f it up too hard.

[Dwaynos]

Originally Posted by nencmeister

Epic failure of a day. Was supposed to be a nice long day working on my baby. The diffuser I bought was too small.. the vendor mislabeled it, now on to the back and forth.

But.. also tried to do my coils and plugs myself. Should have listened to my neighbor, guy comes to check out what I'm doing, he says "oh boy, I could never do that myself, good luck"

Anyways all sorts of lights came on, yadah yadah, could be anything. Engine starts extremely loud, then shuts off with a drivetrain malf, could be anything.. DME, coil, spark plug, spark plug gap..

Going to take it in to a German auto shop near me, to embarrassed to call the dealer LOL

I knew there was a massive chance of failure but I still went through with it as a challenge. Lesson learned, now hopefully I didn't f it up too hard.

Check the plugs on the dme's. A similar thing happened to me and one of the plugs hadn't sat down 100% although it looked perfect and seemed to click in perfect. Theres very little you can do wrong except not plug something back in.

[nencmeister]

Originally Posted by Dwaynos

Check the plugs on the dme's. A similar thing happened to me and one of the plugs hadn't sat down 100% although it looked perfect and seemed to click in perfect. Theres very little you can do wrong except not plug something back in.

It took me 4 hours yesterday to do the whole job, learned a lot I guess you could say.

Turns out it was a bad coil on cylinder #2. Replaced and she's purrin again. Sucks I dropped two screws, a bit and possibly my thin wall adapter in there. I'm gonna button her up and take her for a small test drive. Kind of anxious, but seems to be idling fine, I reved the engine to 5000 rpm three times, one time it didn't feel right.

Only reason I did this is because I had a misfire on cylinder 4 once on stock plugs and coils with the bm3 stage one.

I'll keep you guys updated in case something goes wrong but overall pretty happy.

Thanks for the PMs too

[yehm5]

Got the car wrapped (car is BSM) and installed Vorsteiner front spoiler, rear diffuser and trunk spoiler

[Beast27]

Looks great! Wrap color name?

[yehm5]

Originally Posted by Beast27

Looks great! Wrap color name?

I used “Avery SW900 Supreme Wrapping Vinyl Film Gloss Dark Grey | SW900-865-O“

[pcohen15]

Originally Posted by yehm5

Got the car wrapped (car is BSM) and installed Vorsteiner front spoiler, rear diffuser and trunk spoiler

The red center caps are the perfect touch!

[Ickdeep]

Got a little tail light tint to kinda darken the car. Use promo code "PureM5" for 10% off.

https://***********************/colle...ht-overlay-kit

[GiddyAssassin]

Originally Posted by yehm5

Got the car wrapped (car is BSM) and installed Vorsteiner front spoiler, rear diffuser and trunk spoiler

Wrap looks so good. I am such a sucker for those Nardo-style greys.

[chrisho68]

Originally Posted by Ickdeep

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What exhaust are you running? Agency Power? Don't remember seeing it on your other build thread. TIA

[Ickdeep]

Originally Posted by chrisho68

What exhaust are you running? Agency Power? Don't remember seeing it on your other build thread. TIA

Here is the link for more photos: https://f10.m5post.com/forums/showpo...;postcount=231

But its a custom muffler delete. I took out the resonators from the middle of car and put them instead of the mufflers. Then got some burnt tip muffler tips from Ebay and had them installed.

[WabiSabi]

Not a bad deal at all! Who is your extended warranty with?

Originally Posted by pcohen15

Brought my car in last week for what I thought was going to be routine oil change. I was also seeing a little oil around the turbo coolant lines, right where they go under the engine cover, so I asked that to be checked as well.

I casually mentioned to my SA that like many M5s I read about online, mine was consuming a quart of oil about every 1,000 miles. He said that didn't sound normal, and they would do a thorough check.

Next day I get a text saying that the upper oil pan gasket was found to be "actively leaking," forming drips in the tray. $3,074 later I have a new gasket, and all new seals, bolts, screws, o-rings, and nuts. The area was cleaned and then test driven 5 miles to verify no further leaks. All covered by the extended warranty, minus my $200 deductible.

It'll be interesting to see if that was the cause of the oil drain. In 18 months driving my M3, I added 1 qt of oil. So we'll see.

And rightfully so, they charged me for the oil (0W30) and filter, but not the labor to put it in

My extended warranty is definitely my new best friend, having saved me about $8,000 in the past three months. That's $2k more than it cost, and I'm barely into the 4 yrs/50k miles of coverage.

[TrevorM3]

usually not a fan of wraps, but that is fantastic. needs a small drop now and we're in business.

[pcohen15]

Originally Posted by Jonkumi88

Not a bad deal at all! Who is your extended warranty with?

My warranty (technically, a service contract) is through EFG (https://www.efgcompanies.com/, Platinum version), but they do not sell direct to consumer. Only through dealerships. I bought mine from my local BMW dealer, but didn't buy the car from them. It's the second time I've purchased an EFG service contract. First was for my E92 M3, and that was well-used also