WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 I can already tell this is going to be a s**t show. Hi Floatplane and welcome to LMG Whips. 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:08.720 This is my 2006 BMW M5. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.160 As Doug Demiro put it, the best car you should never own. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:16.480 I probably disagree with a little bit of it, but I can see where he's coming from at least. 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:21.920 Let's start with the best and admittedly worst part of this car, the engine. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:30.400 This is BMW's S85 5.0-liter V10 engine exclusive to the E60 M5 and E63 E64 M6. 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:33.840 It's what takes this otherwise admittedly boring bulbous, 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.280 crisp-angled E60 chassis and makes it into something that is actually seriously cool. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:44.160 A sedan that is as fast and as crazy as a Lamborghini, if you will. 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:50.400 By default, it makes 507 horsepower. It's tuned up a little bit and it sounds incredible, sort of. 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:53.120 I actually kind of wanted to sell the thing. I've had it for two years now. 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:59.120 When I bought it, it was just so tame. There's barely any exhaust note, there's barely any induction noise. 00:00:59.120 --> 00:01:05.040 So some minor modifications like a carbon fiber plenum, a little bit beefier intake system and an exhaust. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:10.640 Turn it from old man fast car to like old young man fast car. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.240 I guess if that makes any sense. When it works, it really is an awesome engine. 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:17.920 The sound is there, the throttle response is there, the power is there. 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.920 It might not be the torquiest engine in the world, given its kind of small displacement, 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:25.360 but when you're up there at like 5000 RPM, 6000 RPM, 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:33.600 and the Vanos kicks in, which is kind of like VTEC, and your tires break loose at 6000 RPM, it's pretty special. 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:38.880 It's got just crazy legs. Like this car can do 205 miles per hour when it's being limited 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:42.480 or something crazy like that. But when it works, it's kind of the key piece there. 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:46.080 I'm sure if you've seen any videos on this car at all or read an article 00:01:46.080 --> 00:01:51.760 or even are just like car scene adjacent, I'm sure you've heard about the reliability issues. 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.840 How many times has this engine broken down on you, Jake? This one's only broken down on me once. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.160 It's kind of low mileage. We'll talk more about that later. But I have lots of friends that have them, 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:03.360 and their experience is not so good as mine. 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:08.960 There's a kind of a laundry list of things that will break on this car. You've got throttle actuators, you've got idle control valves, 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:14.960 you've got a high pressure Vanos line, you've got a high pressure Vanos pump, you've got rod bearings, you've got ionic modules, 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:19.840 you've got, what else do you got? I don't know. That's pretty much the main ones that go, I guess. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.600 Oh, right, the transmissions. I think that that's pretty much it for the engine. 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:27.360 There are more for the transmission, but we'll talk about that when we're in the car, I guess. 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:31.200 This car's actually only ever broken down on me once. It was the throttle actuators, 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:33.840 which is one of those issues you've probably heard of. 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.080 Funnily enough, I was talking to my friend while driving the car like, 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.040 man, I should probably replace those preventatively. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.120 But maybe I got another 10, 20,000 kilometers before they go. 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:48.800 Parked the car, went inside, took a shower to go to the thing I was going to. 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:52.320 Came back, started the car, check engine light. 00:02:52.320 --> 00:02:56.800 Scan it, throttle actuators. I don't have any other explanation other than I jinxed it, 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:01.440 but it's important to frame it properly. What other cars do you get an engine like this? 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:06.880 There's a VW, V10 diesel. I think there was an S6 or an S8 that also had a V10, 00:03:06.880 --> 00:03:12.880 but it's not as cool as this one. It's crazy and if you want crazy, you kind of have to pay to maintain crazy. 00:03:12.880 --> 00:03:17.600 At least a lot of the things, you spend a few thousand dollars and replace it 00:03:17.600 --> 00:03:22.000 and generally you're good. You replace the rod bearings with ones that have a larger gap 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:26.960 and that kind of solves the problem. You upgrade the throttle actuators and that kind of solves the problem. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:31.120 Maybe I'm just too on the Kool-Aid, but it's worth it. 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:35.280 Forget two doors. How about four doors? 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:41.040 And not just any four doors. I mean, there are like grand coupes and stuff that have four doors 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:43.200 but aren't really comfortable, but I'm six foot. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.600 I've got leg room. This seat is set how I usually sit in the front. 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:51.600 So let's say there's a six foot driver in the front and six foot Jake in the back. 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:54.240 I've got lots of leg room. I've got lots of headroom. 00:03:54.880 --> 00:03:59.440 It's a really, really comfortable car. And to have a really, really comfortable car 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:02.640 that you can have like four people in here on a road trip 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:06.640 with, you know, 500 plus horsepower and crazy noises. 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:10.960 It's kind of amazing. What else exists that does this? 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:14.720 I don't know. Oh, look, I even got like, oh, you want some cup holders? 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:20.480 Look at how comfy I am. Very comfy. Holy s***, there's storage back here. 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.560 You didn't know that? I've never really like been in the back of this car, obviously. 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.760 No, I didn't know there was also storage. I mean, this is a Canadian car. 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:31.680 So there's ski pass through back here. You put your skis through from the back. 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.120 If you want to, you know, take your M5 up a mountain. 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:38.720 But no, I didn't know about the storage too. 00:04:39.840 --> 00:04:43.120 You got climate control too. What? Oh, wow. This is pretty lame. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:48.080 Hey, I mean, some four doors don't have that. I mean, it's basic, but it works. 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:54.000 Mind you, I mean, this car is just basic in general. It actually has zero options, not even one. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.080 Wait, really? There's no executive pack. Yeah, I don't know. It's like the stripper spec E60 M5. 00:04:58.080 --> 00:05:01.840 There's no, there's no executive package or shades. 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:05.120 I don't even have comfort access, like the keyless start and keyless entry. 00:05:05.760 --> 00:05:08.640 You could get heated rear seats. Don't have that. 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.800 You could get like split fold front seats. Don't have that. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.640 But luckily in Canada, the Alcantara headliner, 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:21.280 it's like the fancy suede stuff, is standard. So all E60s came with it. 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:25.680 If you get in an American E60, it usually just has a cloth headliner, 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.840 unless it's like a really high spec one, which I appreciate the suede headliner is. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.720 This is the fun spot. Being a base model, there's a lot of changes in the front 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:38.400 that are different to like 95% of E60 M5. 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:42.320 You got to remember, this is like an M5. It's a five series. It's kind of a luxury car. 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:46.160 So usually when people bought them, they put a bunch of different options on them, 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.440 like active bolsters. This car does have the inflatable bolsters in each seat. 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:57.680 So you can kind of make the car hug you a little bit more. But on most of them, they also have active bolsters, 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:03.200 which means as you go around corners, the bolsters will inflate or deflate on either side 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:06.240 to kind of like lean you into the corner a little bit more, 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:13.200 support you a little more, so you don't lean. It's just, it was like 2005 when they developed that technology. 00:06:13.200 --> 00:06:17.920 So there's probably like a quarter or half second delay. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:23.680 So you're already partway in the corner, and then the bolster inflates, it's truly awful. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.320 And I don't know anyone that has one of these cars with that feature that actually uses it, 00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:32.320 except for one guy, but he's crazy. I also don't have a heads up display, 00:06:32.320 --> 00:06:36.560 which I don't really care about. Unlike the E9X M3, which is very similar. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:41.120 It's kind of like a stripped down version of this engine, but everything else is kind of in the same vein. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:46.320 You can't get this in a single hump. So every E60 M5 has iDrive, 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:49.840 which is like the navigation screen. That's because a bunch of the climate control 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:53.040 and other like weird carb settings and control features 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:56.400 are built into the iDrive. And there's no other way to change them. 00:06:56.400 --> 00:06:59.440 For instance, there's no button here to change 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:03.840 if you want the air blowing on your face or from the center of answer at your feet. 00:07:03.840 --> 00:07:07.760 It's all in the iDrive, which means if it breaks, you can't control those things. 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:14.320 So you just have to have one. And that means the stripper spec, you know, still has at least some kind of tech things. 00:07:14.320 --> 00:07:18.960 But I like not having a lot of tech. Those other features like the heads up display, 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:22.080 they usually just end up breaking. And I like my car to be proper. 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:26.160 So my brain wouldn't let me not fix it, which means I would just be wasting money 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.360 on stupid crap I don't care about. Other fun things in the interior 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:33.520 include the super weird kind of janky cup holders. They do at least work 00:07:33.520 --> 00:07:38.560 unlike the previous generation five series, the E39, which I think in Europe never had cup holders. 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:43.280 And then they were like, Oh, the North Americans need cup holders. And they put these like two little dinky. 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:46.880 They're not even cup holders. It's like a little, a little hand that comes out 00:07:46.880 --> 00:07:51.840 when you open it and you put your drink and it holds the drink like here. 00:07:51.840 --> 00:07:56.400 Say this is the bottom of the drink. That's where it holds it on the drink. So it basically does nothing. 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:01.520 So I'm glad that they're there, but they are shitty. And actually I've already broken this one once 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:07.120 and then I broke it again, like a couple of weeks ago. You see that's not supposed to stick up and it doesn't close. 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:11.040 Another sick part is the trunk space. I mean, just look at this. 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.240 You could probably fit like six golf bags or like even a human in here. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.200 You know, funnily enough, 00:08:21.200 --> 00:08:25.600 I didn't have enough seats in my car at one point when I was picking up some friends. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:29.280 And instead of making a second trip, my friend was like, screw it. I'll just sit in the back. 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:35.200 We were on a dirt road with lots of bumps. So he was in the back of here like... 00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:43.360 Back here, you can see the other modifications I made. I traded some dude, my stock mufflers 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:47.120 for this Eisenman race plus some cash on top. It's cool because it's an original one. 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:50.640 It's like 2007 Eisenman race with the oval tips. 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:55.360 And then I have a Rogue Engineering stainless X pipe, which just deletes the stock resonator. 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.880 Fully catted otherwise because I don't like my car to smell like shit. 00:09:06.800 --> 00:09:11.280 So thanks for watching. If you like this type of content, hit the like button down below and maybe we'll make more. 00:09:11.280 --> 00:09:16.800 I have many modifications I would like to make. And other terrible BMWs we could make more videos about. 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:18.960 That one blows up too.