Hi guys,
First off, hello! I'm from the UK, looks like this is more of a US forum, but hopefully it doesnt matter too much that i say things like crikey and gosh and have tea with the queen.
I've recently become the proud owner of an E60 M5 and i have a few questions about them.
First off, at tickover, it sounds a little rough. I've done googling and searching and seen a million threads on this issue but everyone seems to have a different opinion! The car feels as if it perorms ok, but has a fairly obvious rattle at idle that goes away when its revved. Could this be a VANOS issue, or do they all do this? The car is a 2005 model.
Secondly, the brakes feels a little "rough". I own a few other cars (A few heavily modified ones) And the brakes on the M5 feel similar to the ones on my twin turbo FD3s RX7 (360mm 6 pots with slotted rotors and endurance race pads) in that they make a little noise and send a very slight vibration through the car. Are all of the brakes like this? I test drove quite a few M5s before buying (6 of them actually) but never noticed this on any of the cars (Even this one)
Its only since ive driven it a few hundred miles and started to stand on the brakes a bit more ive noticed the brakes are not completely silent and smooth as silk as i'd expect from a BMW. However, im also aware the brakes are massive chunky items with lots of holes in them so some vibration may be unavoidable. The dics are NOT warped, i can tell you that much. When i say vibration, its less than the vibration youd get out of a cellphone. Its barely noticeable.
Thirdly, one of the rear heated seats doesnt work. The other 3 are all fine. When you press the button, both green lights flash up for a split second and go out again straight away, and the seat doesnt heat up. I've checked the fuses in the trunk listed as for the rear seats on the chart (a 5A and a 20A Fuse) and they are both fine.
ARe there any other fuses or relays i should check? How easy is it to remove the rear bench and is there much under there thats serviceable for me to look at?
Also, not so important this one, but is there any way to configure the car so that the seat bolsters close up around your sides when you put it into M mode, and relax again when going back out of M mode? The car has the active seats, but i'm not too worried if they are on or off.
Lastly, and i belive the answer on this is "Tough luck" But i have the BMW iPod interface, and its terrible. Every time i scroll down the artists or whatever i feel like im breaking my i-drive, and it literally takes 3-4 minutes to load the list of artists/albums every time i change CD2-CD3. Is this delay normal, and is there any software updates or hardware available so i can do sensible things like browse by letter (E.g look at artists A...B...C rather than artists Andrew, Andy, Apon, Azon, Azum etc etc)
Thanks in advance for any help!
First off, hello! I'm from the UK, looks like this is more of a US forum, but hopefully it doesnt matter too much that i say things like crikey and gosh and have tea with the queen.
I've recently become the proud owner of an E60 M5 and i have a few questions about them.
First off, at tickover, it sounds a little rough. I've done googling and searching and seen a million threads on this issue but everyone seems to have a different opinion! The car feels as if it perorms ok, but has a fairly obvious rattle at idle that goes away when its revved. Could this be a VANOS issue, or do they all do this? The car is a 2005 model.
Secondly, the brakes feels a little "rough". I own a few other cars (A few heavily modified ones) And the brakes on the M5 feel similar to the ones on my twin turbo FD3s RX7 (360mm 6 pots with slotted rotors and endurance race pads) in that they make a little noise and send a very slight vibration through the car. Are all of the brakes like this? I test drove quite a few M5s before buying (6 of them actually) but never noticed this on any of the cars (Even this one)
Its only since ive driven it a few hundred miles and started to stand on the brakes a bit more ive noticed the brakes are not completely silent and smooth as silk as i'd expect from a BMW. However, im also aware the brakes are massive chunky items with lots of holes in them so some vibration may be unavoidable. The dics are NOT warped, i can tell you that much. When i say vibration, its less than the vibration youd get out of a cellphone. Its barely noticeable.
Thirdly, one of the rear heated seats doesnt work. The other 3 are all fine. When you press the button, both green lights flash up for a split second and go out again straight away, and the seat doesnt heat up. I've checked the fuses in the trunk listed as for the rear seats on the chart (a 5A and a 20A Fuse) and they are both fine.
ARe there any other fuses or relays i should check? How easy is it to remove the rear bench and is there much under there thats serviceable for me to look at?
Also, not so important this one, but is there any way to configure the car so that the seat bolsters close up around your sides when you put it into M mode, and relax again when going back out of M mode? The car has the active seats, but i'm not too worried if they are on or off.
Lastly, and i belive the answer on this is "Tough luck" But i have the BMW iPod interface, and its terrible. Every time i scroll down the artists or whatever i feel like im breaking my i-drive, and it literally takes 3-4 minutes to load the list of artists/albums every time i change CD2-CD3. Is this delay normal, and is there any software updates or hardware available so i can do sensible things like browse by letter (E.g look at artists A...B...C rather than artists Andrew, Andy, Apon, Azon, Azum etc etc)
Thanks in advance for any help!