15,000 kms with my 525i - short review

🥁 today is the day. I’ve finally hit 115,000 kms.
That means I drove 15,000 kms since I bought my 525i in February.
In the meantime I’ve established a love-hate-relationship with my ride.

The things I love:

1. The smoothness and quiteness of its sixpack.
2. The roomy interior and the still impressive material quality (it’s a 15 years old car btw)
3. The comfortable way of driving. The overall adjustment is rather soft due to stock seats & suspension and the 15” ex-winter tires
4. Autobahn driving on the left lane (I usually drive between 150 and 200 kmh when there aren’t any speed limits)
5. Overtaking on the Landstraße (German equivalent to British B roads). The Ting goes kickdown, rev up, 4000 rpm, fire!

The things I hate:

1. Unreliability. I already had 3 breakdowns.
   No. 1 & 2 - Car didn’t start due to electric failure. Batterie and heating system amp(?) got replaced (190 + 180 €). Luckily, I’ve finally got the money for the amp back, cause this was a warranty repair. Took me 3 months including several phone calls and visits to dealership until those insert insult here finally paid.
2. Fuel consumption. Kinda obvious I know, but I drive 60 kms daily which I didn’t knew before I’ve bought the car.
3. Honestly, it’s too long for my garage yard. Well, I’ve bought the car before I’ve found my apartment. Parking always takes 1,5 to 2 minutes due to it’s length.
4. It’s a bone stock base model. Well the first owner, an elderly man from Augsburg, born in 1927, obviously just wanted a big beamer with a not-too-big but also not-too-small engine. The only extras he ordered are Automatic, PDC front and back and an automatic AC. That’s all and I guess that the last two extras were standard anyway. So neither leather seats, sunroof nor cruise control were ordered.
5. Every modern 150 hp Turbo car can beat me.
   Yes I’ve got 190 hp, but it’s an NA engine combined with an outdated 5 speed Auto and heavy weight (1.7 t).

Hope you enjoyed reading this post 😁