Originally Posted by gingeRS

Not too much of a horror but bought a 2003 e39 for £3000 ish to keep my RS nice, in the three years I owned it various bits broke on it, it broke down several times, the mpg was poor, it needed work for each mot, I sold it for £1500 a month ago when the gearbox started to fail, ironically I used my focus every time the Bmw let me down, that's had 3 mots in the time, sailing though every time and never let me down until I killed the water pump on a track day, for some reason I still really liked the e39, but they are money pits now and I can see why they are all either cheap, or cherished and very expensive!