today we're gonna talk about five of the things I bet you probably didn't know
about the m5 the e60 m5 so let's take a look the first number number one thing
we're gonna look at of course is the dipstick first thing is this car has no
dipstick let's open this up so start the car this is actually how you check your
oil you start the car
and you'll notice the oil level right there in this case it says I'm at 1.1
liters which is okay what you gotta be careful of is not over filling it too
much I know this is marginally over I know it's not grossly overfilled
if you grossly overfill the oil in a high-performance motor like this that's
probably one of your quick ways to reckon engine if you want to get rid of
an engine in a hurry fill it up with oil right to the top but anyway in this case
that's the only way you can check the oil so I'm just gonna turn the car off
so I'll show you real quickly here where most cars we actually have a dipstick
see if I can open this shit up look around you got your oil filler but you
don't have a dipstick spot there's no place to actually check oil on this car
the only way to do it is electronically which really sucks because when you're
filling it up for after an oil change it's a little bit more finicky and
trying to make sure that you've got the level right you definitely don't
overfill it and if you do overfill it how do you know you've overfilled it
beyond that one point one that I showed you on the dash so it's kind of awkward
but that's one thing yeah it keeps your oil your hands-free of oil but the
downside of course is it's a little more finicky especially if you get to the top
end of that in which case you shouldn't be filling it to the top it should be
somewhere behalf way anyway enough about that so the second thing I bet you
probably didn't know unless you happen to be an owner or you're one of those
long-term form subscribers is that unfortunately as you know it is a
high-performance car the e60 m5 is truly a high-performance car but because of
that there's a lot of parts that can be finicky no let me just open this up and
I think we're going to be limited what we can actually see here a ninety-degree
v10 which actually increases the the balance of the engine so it feels very
low-key when you're idling around town it feels very refined the reality is
this is truly a high-performance monster of an engine and things that have been
known to go on this car rod bearings that's a problem fifty to eighty
thousand miles in that range you can expect problems with your rod bearings
vanos system part of the intake that's a problem the SMG transmission have been
known to fail there's also been failures known on the rear differentials either
just outright failing or leaks or other related issues there
so the car is not short on its faults of course it's a high-performance car but
it definitely does have its share of issues that you can contend with that
being said I wouldn't recommend you driving putting tons of miles this is
truly it's no different than driving a Ferrari taking it out on a nice Sunday
afternoon for a drive same kind of thing this is really a high performance car
borderline race car treat it that way but you can't expect those things so the
third thing that I bet you probably didn't know is this engine actually uses
what they call or BMW calls a quasi sump arrangement most high-performance cars
and you'll find in Ferraris and Lamborghinis even Corvette today uses a
dry sump but dry sump really is a system that has a separate oil tank and a
better scavenge a dedicated scavenge and supply oil system to provide oil in big
corners when you're pulling G's and the oil is pulling out of the pan to ensure
that you always have good oiling to the bottom of the motor and distribution
through the engine that's what the when a dry sump system really does for you
this system here of course is a quasi dry sump and it's really a cheater
system it's a pan at the bottom feeds into another pad and it's a bit
convoluted it's not truly a dry sump and I think they do that because of the room
and the engine engine compartment here so it actually does not use a tried ruse
true dry sump which many many other high-performance engines do use so the
fourth thing you may or may not have noticed or known about the BMW e60 m5 is
it's likely going to be the last large engine normally aspirated motor that BMW
will put in their performance cars yeah today they're using the v8 with twin
turbos and it goes like stink but it does really lack the true
high-performance race engine technology that they had in this because it's
normally aspirated it's a great technology it does really rely on the
proper amount of tuning turbos really do a lot of pickup a lot of slack for
sloppy engineering put turbos to anything that gives you a big lumpy
torque curve normally aspirated engines if you get high output usually becomes a
result of really top-shelf engineering and top quality parts so an engine like
this v10 motor is the largest BMW is ever
used as well it's probably largest they will ever use this engine was actually
derived from the Formula one cars back in the early 2000s and so they basically
took that technology and transferred it here and created a car that is very very
much based on the Formula one cars one side the car here these e60 m5 s you
look at the speedometer it says 330 km/h oh that's probably around 200 and some
miles per hour that's around 205 maybe somewhere in that range these cars if
you chip them it removes the governor which is a factory governed at 155 miles
per hour which is about 240 kilometers 245 it is factory governed to stop there
if you get the chip installed like dining or one of those other chips you
can actually get it removes the governor this car has been known not mine but
similar East 60 m5 has been known to run over 330 kilometers an hour in other
words a car similar to this was clocked at 205 miles per hour just by removing
the governor why because this has 500 and almost 10 horsepower v-10 and the
gearing is just right it's all suited very nicely for this car and this thing
does rock it's it's truly a supercar now that's all I have today folks I hope you
enjoyed this video really at the end of the day it's not perfect no car is
there's always compromises and because this is a supercar as far as that goes
it's a wolf in sheep's clothing I would consider the fact that there are
compromises you'd have to consider but at the end of the day there's five key
things that you should know so please like that's very important comment and
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