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Cleaned up and ready for summer

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#1 ·
Just finished spring cleaning my E34 & E39 M5's for the summer season. Got some new tyres to fit for the E39 (Michelin PS4's) and I've decided to run the E34 on throwing stars this year so I'll put the turbines into storage.
 

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#8 ·
great pics Dan, cars look wonderful - and store those turbines carefully......


I have been dusting off cars in the last few weeks also, but haven't bothered to wash one yet - the E34 has been on daily duties this week, and the M3 was last cleaned in 2015........I will try and post a pic on here once they are suitably processed....
 
#9 ·
Nice one Dan !!

Great choice of summer vehicles !
 
#10 ·
I took my e34 out at the weekend too.

Not driven it since it was MOT'd last year!

Car went well, feels really slow by modern standards, not helped as the F10 has cleared diluted my sense of speed.

Just trying to sort out insurance as that is now due for renewal this month, 3k mileage policy at 15k value, Admiral came out cheapest so far at £183, however thats not been straight forward to arrange as of yet (I already have an existing multicar policy with Admiral and they refused to add the e34 previously) so not sure what is going on with that quote..

Who are people using for their cars?

Cheers

Steve
 
#13 ·
I still think the E34 is plenty fast enough for the road, you just need to work a bit harder to keep it on the boil.

The F10 has got so much power that you can be in any gear at any revs and it will still leave most other cars for dead. It makes my E39 feel slow which is ridiculous as it's anything but.

You can't beat the howl from an S38 though, no matter how fast you're going.
 
#15 ·
I just switched to Admiral for the 20J. Undercut the previous quote by a major amount and did agreed value at a level that made me happy. I suspect they are doing a loss leader on classic cars, and will try to ratchet me up next year. If that's the case then confused.com will help me drop them like a bad habit......
 
#16 ·
I have added the e34 to my existing Admiral multicar policy now..

I tried a few years back and they wouldn't touch it as the car is LHD, but now they are happy.

3k miles per year - am waiting for their agreed valuation. Cost was about £130 for the year.

They renewed the F10 while I was there and thats gone back down to £500 too.

The mrs new mini cooper will go on next month, taking the premium to just shy of 1k for the 3 cars.

Happy with that.

e34 goes for MOT friday, its covered about 300kms since the last one...
 
#17 ·
I was on multicar a few years ago, and noticed that they ratcheted the premiums up every year which I presumed was due to the significant administrative overhead of switching multiple cars. So I now use confused.com to insure each car separately, moving from year to year as needed. Seems to work well.
 
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