Test drive BMW 5 series E39 2000 - 2003 sedan

BMW 530i /11 300

In early June, our car ended up in the company at once by six similar ones - just so much BMW 530i Dynamic silver is made up of the BMW driving school park.
 
+ Total advanced courses imply three levels. We happened to go through the very first - the safe movement of the car in typical road situations of driving around the city. Theoretical classes in the class, which we were just tuned to endure, were not only useful, but also interesting: the dynamic distribution of forces on the top five, the actions when demolishing the front axis and when drifting the rear, entertaining arithmetic such as observations, which inhibits at a speed of 70 km/h car The point of stopping the car inhibiting at a speed of 50 km/h passes, at a speed of 60 km/h! ... But, of course, practical exercises turned out to be much more interesting. The editorial car had to be left on the sidelines: these are the rules - classes are held exclusively on school machines. First of all, the fit of the seat: not being newcomers, we nevertheless had the opportunity to make sure that we were sitting incorrectly. Snakes, emergency braking, rearrangements, police reversal, exit from demolition and drift (the irrigation machine specially made wet asphalt for us). Trying all this independently on public roads is stupid and unsafe, and then the instructor monitors all your actions and by walkie -talkie makes adjustments, and his assistants only manage to remove and insert the fuse responsible for the work of the ABS ... The first level of the advanced course on The price is comparable to the cost of a tour of a week somewhere to the warm sea, and the third with a similar trip to another hemisphere. Meanwhile, unlike a tan, which will come down to winter, knowledge and skills promise to linger a little longer. As for the money, they can be considered investments in the subsequent non -vitality of their own car, as well as a fee for the notorious pleasure at the wheel, which, of course, will become larger if the driver learns to better control with the steering wheel and pedals.
 
 
+/- Apparently, in revenge for the fact that our car was not taken to school, with a run of 9500 km, he burned a light bulb and demanded to add the coolant, which he immediately spent the on-board computer. The light bulb - a universal and democratic thing - was acquired right there. As for the cooling liquid, then, having absorbed the prayers of the operating manual, we did not add domestic surrogate, but acquired for $ 7 a company, not containing nitrites and amino anti -corrosion antifreeze of BMW long -term action.

+ By the way, the control features and even the description of the principles of the operation of the car systems are reduced to the manual-an impressive in volume textbook on driving and owning the BMW 5-Reihe. If you have lost it or, not being the owner of the BMW, you want to comprehend the secrets of pleasure at the theory, then the book has a book at any official BMW dealer at a price of $ 26.
Dmitry Gronsky, photo Alexey Ilyin

Our costs (May 20 - June 20)
Mileage 2500 km. Gasoline consumption - 350 liters
AI-98 gasoline ($ 0.37) $ 130
Cooling liquid $ 7
Stop signal bulb $ 1
Washing and cleaning of the cabin $ 30
In just a month $ 168

 

Source: "Autopilot"