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Location: South Korea
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Age: 122
V$: Broke
#154584   2019-03-24 17:10          

New Daily Again



It's been a week since I did some updates to the Supra!

And thinking about using Tico as a shop van and the 180SX for the daily was a bit too overkill for the Korean roads that I drive every day.

Even this R34 has some issues going over the speed bumps and the parking lots.



It's not an issue when driving a straight city roads without any issues since there are almost no potholes just like Japan.



It just makes me smile when I step on the throttle, and some random guys notice my R34 on the streets, saying it's a car from FnF. JDM is a flex here.






Well, 180SX was a bit too "aged" and compact for normal daily use, so I brought this quirky thing from Germany.



Yup, it's the E39 M5. A legit one with green plates, meaning it was owned by one person for a long time. That's a good sign.



It has typical US amber-colored reflectors on each headlights, meaning this is meant to be sold in the US market but also officially sold in Korea.

Most of the M cars here are a slightly modified US versions of the BMW. No issues from that. Well I prefer Euro version but that's near impossible to find.



The interior was in pretty decent shape, but it had that E39 problem which causes pixelated cluster warning signs. Well that's not a big issue.

It had about 150,xxx miles on the gauge, and the speedometer was a US version, which could cause trouble when I convert those miles into km when the car needs to be inspected every 2 years.

But I decided to think about that later.



The V8 engine shows typical wear and tear, and needed some maintenance of course. It's a BMW and I was expecting all sorts of leaks and issues.

The E39 OEM wheels were not here, instead there were sets of "fake" HRE spoked wheels which looks not bad after all. But I am not a big fan of fake wheels.

The tyres were also a bit used and needed to be replaced.

The brake discs look okay and the suspension arm joints and the pads needed to be double checked again.

I assume more and more engine-related problems would show up, but 11K will help fixing those issues with his BMW E36 knowledge.



The US-sized trunk part just gives this was a US (Or Korean) Market variant. Thankfully the previous owner didn't bother to modify the exhaust.

I paid the previous owner the low sum of V$ 10,000 (which was a pretty good deal) and headed straight to the garage, lending 11K my R34 to get the wheels and put it on his S15.



With further inspections, it was just a normal, typical E39 with E39 problems but it's M5.



Nothing big issue like chassis or big engine failure was not here. I was pretty lucky :)