The best shed a man can get? Or undeserving Bangle folly?
/ Friday 27 September 2024 / Loading commentswith a suspension fault and a weird-looking exhaust. Luckily he had an attack of common sense and went instead for what you see in front of you now: a low-miles, historied, manual-gearbox'd, petrol-powered E60 BMW 530i.
Still, the E60 was lighter, faster and more spacious than the E39, and with the M54 3.0 straight-six that we’ve got here, fast and characterful enough for most. A couple of years after our shed was built BMW phased out the M54 in the 530i and replaced it with the port-injected N52 Valvetronic six or, in less sulphur-tolerant markets like Europe, the direct-injection N53. That was BMW’s last non-turbo straight-six.
Independent ‘dynamic drive’ suspension that firmed up under hard cornering and of course rear-wheel drive meant that buyers didn’t have to go for the Sport model in order to get sharp handling in their E60s. The nearside seat bolster on our 128,000 mile shed is understandably a little tired after all the buttockings it’s received in its life. Other than that the cabin has stood up well.
The M54 has a nice reputation for longevity but things could go wrong on it, sometimes due to an inappropriate choice of materials, eg plastic for the water pump and other items that you might have preferred to have been made out of metal. M54 thermostats could stick open or closed, high pressure fuel pumps, throttle bodies and injectors could fail, and leaky oil filter housing gaskets were a problem on many BMW engines of this era, fours as well as sixes.
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