Welcome back to the channel everybody Mark with Exotic Car Play Place and
today I'm going to give you a rundown on why my e60 m5 cost so much money when it
was new but I'm also going to include the vin decoder I'm going to explain to
you by the end of the video how you can find out the options list from your BMW
not just the m5 but any BMW now as well make sure you guys subscribe to the
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going to get you that prize. I don't know how many of you guys do not have the
window stickers on your car like the m5 over here my car about it used I'm the
third owner and it didn't come with a window sticker but what I want to do is
share with you guys how to get that window sticker information more
importantly why is this car worth the kind of money that it is it was very
expensive when it was brand new I'm going to walk you through the options list
and I'm also going to explain to you how you can find on your m5 and not only
your m5 if you also have a any kind of a be late model BMW or you have friends
with BMWs like that you can actually find out every option that was fitted to
this car and I'm gonna walk you through that I'm gonna show you how to do it
there's a website you can go to but for now I'm gonna show you some of the
really premium options that came with my car I'm gonna walk you around that show
you some of the detail and I hope you enjoy it so stick around to the end
because we're gonna show you the exact website and how to configure that let's
go
so you'll notice on this car it's black sapphire metallic one of my favorite
colors the blue that this car actually comes with and as well as my really is
one of my other favorites the black sapphire metallic is actually my first
favorite mainly because black looks good on virtually any car and this is no
exception it is a very menacing looking car and with the oversized 19-inch
wheels that this car comes with coupled with the black paint the black sapphire
metallic this car looks absolutely menacing so that is basically how this
car was outfitted black sapphire metallic 19 inch stock rims and let's go
and take a look at what else we have here so going around to the back we also
have the wing so there's a fin here that's fitted as part of one of the
packages here for the m5 so that's also part of what you'll find on these m5s
glass sunroof on here an absolute nice touch obviously Sun roofs are kind of
coming and going right now with cars not everybody's doing Sun roofs these days
but it's still nice to have if you've got it this car also has this is what I
really like is the comfort comfort access we've got the glass sunroof so
you'll notice on the front end back to the outside of the car here of course we
have the xenon headlights which are also adaptive so they're lil they'll turn and
they adjust for the different road conditions as well this is a cool
feature I love this this is the automatic headlight washers this is also
an upgrade but this here pops up when you activate the headlight washers this
here pops up and sprays the headlights it actually keeps the headlights clean
when the roads get really grimy and ugly let's go take a look on the inside again
here so inside we have the Marino Schwarz leather interior leather finish
in here that's the black leather interior that comes with it's not the
extended but this is the regular leather but black the black stuff nonetheless
you'll notice we have the brushed aluminum finish
my personal favorite by a longshot a lot of the wood finishes you know they were
nice in their day but I think they're starting to date a little bit I mean
they're not terrible it's still nicer than you know miles of plastic that you
find in a lot of cars today but definitely the aluminum finish is the
most modern type of look inside these cars
now of course moving right along we have the full display here but more
importantly the upgrade here you can actually see the heads-up display
console in here this is where it beams up to the glass so there's this area and
so you've got heads-up display that's another upgrade as well in there now
these seats of course are the adaptive seats so you can tell on the side you
can see on the side here they actually flex so these are the adaptive seats for
the M car of course not all of them had that but this year you've got the seat
bolsters that move to accommodate you know different handling conditions and
characteristics so but here obviously you've got heated seats we've got ways
to activate your adaptive bolsters you can actually modulate those or control
those individually here on the dash backup alarm tire sensors you've got all
kinds of stuff these basically are fully loaded for their day that's why they
cost it so much money the m5 in its day was a premium car in the BMW lineup and
that's why you have every feature that you can possibly get yeah it looks very
fairly simple and straightforward in here but you've got a see you've got
cruise control you've got you know intermittent wipers now of course you've
got the M mode you've got ways to adjust your your controls for your stereo and
whatnot this car really has everything available to it you've got voice control
over there you can use hands-free for your phone and all kinds of other
controls in here this thing is truly decked out that's why they cost so much
money in their day so you've got the sliding shades but you've also got if
you look around to the back you also have the sunshade at the very back on
the window that is actually electrically operated as well another feature that I
really like on this thing is the pass-through you pull this down
cool little feature of course cupholders
another little cubby but more importantly is the stole through here
that's what we have here you hit that little guy and now you've got this bag
that actually expands out should you want to put skis in from you know from
the trunk maybe a hockey stick or skis that just pushes right through and that
is a neat little function there as well this here's just the lock for this holds
that in place there I love that feature now of course another upgrade in this
car is the Alcantara headliner such a beautiful touch and I'll show you all
these codes we're gonna review these again later but I'm gonna show you these
codes what these mean if you had to order these special from the factory
these all have different order codes so then you ask yourself why did this car
cost one hundred and thirty thousand dollars plus back in 2006 I hope that
summarizes it for you now let's get down to brass tacks what we want to talk
about is how do you guys can find out your list of options on your BMW well
when you check online there's a lot of difficulty in finding links and finding
information about how to get to it but I will tell you this much there is a great
BMW vin decoder and it's called BMW vin comm you need to check that out so
that's the actual site that you need to go in what it asks you for is the last
seven digits of your VIN or you can type in the whole VIN if you like that
doesn't hurt to and then you go down below there's a bar and it's called
decode and that decode will then spit out all the features it'll give you your
bill date your engine code it'll give you every option that came with that car
now keep in mind not every option was an option these are all features that were
added to these cars and a lot of these cars had these as base options they
weren't necessarily options available to purchase as an example the m5 a lot of
these features are base they're not necessarily even add-on
options they were all a lot of them came as a standard feature for these cars so
now we actually look at the purchase sheet here for my car if you look here
what we have is the the base price the base price of a hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars heads up display was an add-on it at fifteen hundred dollars and
that had an option code of six ten and that was a local BMW code PDI of course
you got to pay you can't get away from not when you buy it new twenty five
hundred dollars and the Z EP or zeti P depends where you're from executive
package at 6500 dollars takes you to a grand total of a hundred and twenty six
thousand dollars add in the protection package which this owner purchased of
course some insurance add on their air tax subtotal of one hundred twenty seven
thousand and you add our Canadian GST goods and services tax thank you very
much mr. Mulroney there of seven thousand plus
takes you up to a grand total of a hundred and thirty four thousand seven
hundred and eleven dollars so make sure you get on that subscription button hit
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