It's time for show off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
car, and here's this week's winner, thank you scotty kilmer for letting me show
my car, hello guys and girls let me present you the bmw 5 series estate or station wagon
if you're in North America, this is the UK version which is right hand drive, this is
a bmw 530f11 chassis, it's very different from your normal 5 series salon you get in
North America, the one here is a diesel and this one is also a former police car,
this bmw is made for police services in Europe directly from the factory, this hasn't been
modified in any way by like police workshops or anything, this one is a 2012 model, it's
258 horsepower 6 cylinder inline turbo diesel engine, north to 60 in 5.8 seconds, this car
has got added reinforcement on the chassis and around the body if like a high speed collision
occur, these cars are very common in the UK, Europe and Australia and I know station wagons
in North America are slowly becoming rare due to the SUV market taking over but here
consumers will still buy them, the normal 530 would retain for about 43,000 pounds which
is around $55,000 USD, I bought this car in 2017 for around 8,000 pounds which is about
$10,000 USD, so you know you can get some really good deals here,
here's a copy of the logbook and title that shows it was previously owned by the police,
when I bought this car it had about 120,000 miles on it with full service history by the
police workshop who did full services every 10,000 miles, the car was like a motorway
highway patrol car so it's seen heavy use there, let's start her up,
here's the interior, I had to do some modifications when I bought this car, this car originally
came with cloth seats and the driver seat was really worn and you could really feel
the springs in there, so I got some leather seats from a junkyard as you call it and it
was off another accident car which had about 35,000 miles, it cost me about $500 for the
front and rear, so this has a standard 8 speed automatic gearbox, it goes into a sport mode
there, you can use the paddle shifters as well which is good, because of the high mileage
the police workshops were doing oil changes, when I bought the car I asked bmw and they
said it was lifetime so we don't change it, so I contacted the manufacturer in Germany
and I took the car there and they stripped and service the gearbox and changed the oil
and cleaned it all out in about 4 hours, like most of the modern bmws you have the
eco mode, comfort mode, and sports mode, generally because it's a diesel you get greater range,
I'm getting about in town in the city I would get maybe 550 miles per tank, it's a 70 liter
tank, on the highway or motorway I'd get maybe 620-650 miles per tank, so it's pretty good
on economy and stuff like that, ok the benefit of having this split tailgate
is that you can open the glass separately, again the benefit of having the option of
the glass opening by itself is, let's say you're going to home depot or DIY store or
many times I've done it where I've got 4x2 timbers or just larger items from Ikea, then
you could just store it in here, put the seats down and none of the other stuff will fall
out, so it's a big load space, so to put the seats down you just pull these, see how much
space is here, and they lay almost flat, so that's a lot of room for taking stuff,
again it's a big trunk space, I mean if I'm carrying 2 in the back and I'm taking this
car to Scotland or Belgium or Germany and if space is required you can always put a
roof box on top, the battery is under the floor, I put those timbers in there just so
if I was carrying anything heavy it wouldn't go down, and the auxiliary battery is here,
so anyone who has a caravan wants to tow anything like a trailer or something you can hook electrics
up right there, they don't come standard only police cars tend to have the aux batteries,
I think this car is a great value for the money and the problem is that you get high
mileage but you know if it's been maintained well then you know it should go on for many
more, I've had no issues with it so far apart from just regular servicing, but it is a luxurious
ride and it's really good on diesel and fuel economy is pretty good for the size of the
engine and for the size of the vehicle as well, so I would recommend buy one,
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