welcome back everyone its mark with exotic car play place today I want to
explain to you guys in 13 years of this cars life this 2006 East 60 m5 with the
SAT 5 motor how many things actually went wrong on this car we talked about
all the time all the things that can go wrong in these m5s what can go wrong yet
everybody talks about the bearings and the throttle actuators and the vanos
systems and countless other failures now I'm knocking on wood everybody and I
really hope that I'm not jinxing myself however I'm gonna share with you guys in
the 13 years of life of this car what are the things that went that died and I
don't I'm not talking about maintenance and oil changes and oil service and air
filters things that needed replacement from factory because they broke let's
talk about the top five things and shed some light on it for you guys
so the first thing that went I'll mention you guys throttle actuator x'
yes I had the dreaded throttle actuator the gear the red cog of death I had that
happen on this car I saw the clog it went into limp mode everything went
black not blank but the redline dropped right down and effectively the car was
yielded kind of dumb it wouldn't go over very far very fast and it was pointless
I had that failure that was one of the failures in the 13 years I had one of
the throttle actuator failures on this car but it's buried below the intake
plenum is here on these wonderful v10 engine of course but they're buried in
underneath here so it takes a lot of parts to be removed here before you even
get access to those throttle actuators and that becomes a bit more of a job and
that's where a lot of the cost goes is in the labor also here's one that's a
little bit less so the second thing that broke on this car
I shouldn't say second but two of these windshields that can happen on any car
of course this car is only some are driven but they're not cheap windshields
because they have the rain sensing in them but at the end of the day two
windshields I've replaced on this car another thing that went and we'll get to
the good stuff here shortly the third thing that went to sets of rear tires
hey it's an m5 they tend to go on the m5 it's not difficult to smoke up these
rear tires so rear tires I've split two sets of
rear tires well between myself and the previous owner we put new two new
replacement sets of tires on this car and so the factory wheels were basically
switched out twice because of due to where we had the Continentals which are
a decent tyre for sure but we switched him over to the Michelin Pilot Super
Sports which I find a lot better grip than the Continentals not were stock in
these cars so another thing that went this one's a little bit different the
positive battery cable there was an issue with that and it needed resolution
so the positive battery cable there was a problem with that and I believe was
from factory so the positive battery as well as the cover was inspected for
damage but the cable itself was replaced so the fourth thing that failed on this
car was the passenger side mirror the heated mirror element so kind of a weird
odd kind of thing to fail but you know that happens from time to time you get
those weird ones this car is very very technical there's a lot of electronics
happening here as well as just power electrical equipment and the mirror on
the passenger side as well failed on this car for me so that needed a full
replacement awesome your side mirror at least fortunately they were able to just
remove the glass the glass part of this was was coming out but they didn't have
to actually remove the entire mirror so you know it didn't really disturb any
seals or any kind of issues like that it you know basically just took care of the
heated element within the mirror so the fifth thing that went on this car was a
bullet and it was based on a factory bulletin from BMW a reprogramming of the
DME for the SAT five US version spec car was the DME needed a reprogram
so that's all I have to report guys in the 13 years that's all that's really
gone on this car now again knock on wood and I know that cars getting older
it currently has 53,000 kilometers on it but it is 13 years of age and I would
expect things to start going on it like anything with age we all get older and
things start breaking down this car would be no different however thus far
in 13 years that's all I have to report for failures actual outright component
failures on this car so everybody I hope you enjoyed the video quick summary
shows how reliable 'is cars really can be they're not always dogs like a lot of
people make them out to be they're actually relatively reliable machines
you know you treat them well you maintain them properly and you can
actually have yourself a high performance car that runs very reliably
for years to come so everyone thanks again make sure you subscribe hit that
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