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Thread: Driving Experience: VF-supercharged E39 540i--aka My New Pet Snail

  1. 07-10-2013, 08:27 AM #126
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    I'm about to SC a 2000 E39 540 with 170,000kms (just over 100,000 miles) so very interested to know if this car is still alive! Still If I got another 100,000+ miles out of it, as the OP seems to have managed that would suit me just fine!!
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  2. 07-10-2013, 09:26 PM #127
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    Quote Originally Posted by jeffbebe View Post
    I'm about to SC a 2000 E39 540 with 170,000kms (just over 100,000 miles) so very interested to know if this car is still alive! Still If I got another 100,000+ miles out of it, as the OP seems to have managed that would suit me just fine!!
    Just get an m5 but New Zealand probably doesn't have any.
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  4. 07-12-2013, 11:10 AM #129
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  5. 07-12-2013, 02:16 PM #130
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    This thread makes me want a 540 bad! And a supercharger! How to explain that to the Minister of Finance when we recently spent over a grand renewing the suspension on the 528...
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  6. 01-06-2015, 11:01 PM #131
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    M3UOND - love it and am jealous. I have a 2001 540i/6spd w/ ~100k mi and will be going FI one day sooooon. How's the car holding up, how many miles now? Saw your last update @ 2010 / 213k.
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  7. 12-22-2016, 07:51 AM #132
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    Quote Originally Posted by seeny View Post
    M3UOND - love it and am jealous. I have a 2001 540i/6spd w/ ~100k mi and will be going FI one day sooooon. How's the car holding up, how many miles now? Saw your last update @ 2010 / 213k.
    +1 also interested as I have a 179k Dinan 5 non forced induced. Mine is also very nicely maintained and I'm interested as to the reliability up in to the 200k's. I assume if it can handle a SC, that N/A will do just fine
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  8. 12-22-2016, 11:02 AM #133
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    Man this thread is a zombie revival magnet... Every 2 years or so, despite OP being gone for 7yrs now.

    Parkhaus if you're interested in N/A high mileage reliablity input this ain't the way to do it. A post of a new thread in either or both E38 or E39 with a title something like "200k+ mis reliability and issues?" Would be 1000x better. There are surely some old ones like that but if there was ever a reasonable argument for a topic refresh as cars age thatd be one...
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  9. 01-09-2017, 12:03 PM #134
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    Quote Originally Posted by geargrinder View Post
    Man this thread is a zombie revival magnet... Every 2 years or so, despite OP being gone for 7yrs now.

    Parkhaus if you're interested in N/A high mileage reliablity input this ain't the way to do it. A post of a new thread in either or both E38 or E39 with a title something like "200k+ mis reliability and issues?" Would be 1000x better. There are surely some old ones like that but if there was ever a reasonable argument for a topic refresh as cars age thatd be one...
    Oh I totally agree,, I'm interested but not THAT interested lol Not enough so to start a new thread,, I'd rather just drink beer and eat popcorn until he chimes back in with updates... I might get pretty drunk though..... meh.... :drink:
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  10. 01-12-2017, 03:37 AM #135
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gumbi4u View Post
    Whats so weird about it? If you have the money, then why not do what you feel like? Thats what the OP did and I was on the same boat.There is no logic behind it.

    Civic owners do the same thing. Take a civic worth 500 bucks and slap on almost 10k worth of parts.
    A Civic with a properly spent 10k would blow the doors off any E39 out there.
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  11. 01-12-2017, 08:20 AM #136
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    Quote Originally Posted by fullthrottle540 View Post
    A Civic with a properly spent 10k would blow the doors off any E39 out there.
    A. That's retarded. Because "any E39" would have to include an E39 with 10k properly spent, which would subsequently 'blow the doors off' your stupid civic.
    B. Stop feeding the necro zombie thread revival. OP is long freakin gone, kickstarting thread for a guy who vanished 7 yrs ago is moronic.
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  12. 01-12-2017, 02:26 PM #137
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    Quote Originally Posted by geargrinder View Post
    A. That's retarded. Because "any E39" would have to include an E39 with 10k properly spent, which would subsequently 'blow the doors off' your stupid civic.
    I have yet to see it happen....
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  13. 08-01-2019, 05:18 PM #138
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    Ding ding, 2 years is up and I'm here to bump this bish and prod GG
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  14. 12-11-2019, 07:28 PM #139
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    Quote Originally Posted by scottieducati View Post
    Ding ding, 2 years is up and I'm here to bump this bish and prod GG
    YAASSSSS I am hoping OP comes back and says he is up to 300K and it's still running fine on stock internals...
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