Our Shed of the Week - the Bangle-designed E60 is probably timeless. The car underneath not so much...
Shed hasn't seen an E60 BMW for a while now. Where are they all? At one time you couldn't move for them. Now they're about as common as dukes in a pizza house. The 530i we're looking at here has been in the classifeds for three or four weeks, which in these days of super-expensive sheds makes you wonder what might be wrong with it.
This is a very early E60 from September 2003, registered just a couple of months after they were launched in Europe. It's a 530i, which for this year means it had the naturally aspirated M54 3.0 straight six producing 228hp at 5,900rpm and 221lb ft at 3,500rpm. You could get it with a 6-speed manual in some markets, but our one has the more usual 6-speed auto.
Apart from the obvious blemishes , it's hard to see what this car's issues might be. Of course, difficulty in seeing problems is itself one of the problems. The issues that bring these vehicles to their knees are often invisible and, as indicated a paragraph ago, quite often electrical in the case of pre-2006 E60s. Some of these could lead to fires.
Luckily, our shed doesn't have a leaky/rattly sunroof. It does have a few holes in the headlining where a telly used to be, but you could always pick something up off eBay to fill the gap - another telly, say. And if you get a good 'un, straight six E60s will rack up big mileages especially if they're equipped with the indirect injection M54 engine which is one of BMW's stronger and more reliable units.
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