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I never owned the E60 M5, but I did own the E60 545i with SMG transmission. Loved that car. I got to drive the E60 M5 on the track at the BMW Performance Center, and my favorite aspect was actually the steering. The M5 steering was completely different than the 545i.
I kept that E60 545i for about 9 years, and 109,000 miles. By that point I needed to replace one of the headlight bulbs which I decided to do myself. When I opened up the headlight case to install the new bulb, the insulation on the wiring cracked and flaked off the wire exposing the raw conductors. Turns out BMW was using some kind of recycled materials for the wiring in the entire car, and after 9 years of living in the warm Florida climate the insulation was degrading to the point where it was flaking off the wires. I decided the car was a ticking time bomb for electrical gremlins due to the recycled wiring insulation.
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