Test drive BMW 5 series E39 2000 - 2003 sedan

BMW 530i /8700 km

In May, we drove away from the capital for almost half a thousand kilometers deep into Russia. The car with honor withstood the test of mediocre roads, unpredictable fuel, as well as individual cases of class hostility. Only with a mileage of 7200 km, the machine, through the inscription on the dashboard, demanded to pay attention to the oil level - the probe was almost dry.
 
+ A long distance trip allowed to check the manufacturer’s data for fuel consumption - it is enough to hold the button in the end of the rotation indicators, as the computer is reset previous values \u200b\u200bwill begin a new test. If in the city mode we got 15.7-15.9 l/100 km, then on the highway this indicator on average was 8.5 l/100 km. This is slightly more than the manufacturer, but the company used SuperPlus gasoline, which with some stretch may correspond to our AI-98, we used the 95th.
 
+ Already in a couple of tens of kilometers around the city of Vladimir, cell phones died. It was then that we had the idea to equip the car with our own tube connected to the operator of the federal analogue network, so that the car was in touch in any corner of our homeland. Fortunately on the multifunctional display already has a TEL button that opens access not only to telephone conversations, but also for reading SMS, as well as other miracles of modern communications. Prepared for the safe use of the phone and the sports steering wheel of our car. The case is small - to install BMW branded tube in the armrest. At the official dealer station, they undertook to do this work for $ 500, but for some reason for two and a half weeks.
 
+/- The trunk of the five accommodates 460 liters, however, if you are going to use the car not only for representative, but also for household purposes, then the luggage compartment will clearly require improvements. On the floor - stretch belts for attaching small luggage, on the right side - a small plastic trough, on the left is a hook on which you can hang a string bag. The BMW proprieties offers a lot of accessories: additional hooks, nets, boxes, but the most necessary of them is a rubber rug ($ 82), so as not to grind exclusively a mark of trunk carpet.
 
- One could come up with something for storing CD boxes. Chainer is behind the lining in the left side of the luggage compartment.
+ In hot sunny weather, a black leather interior in the parking lot is hot like a domain furnace, and inside you can feel normal only after a few minutes of the air conditioner at the maximum. A good help is a sunscreen with a servo drive on the rear window, which is a standard package of BMW 530i Dynamic. For some money, you can scan the glass of the rear doors so as not to disfigure the car with tinting. However, the difficulty lies in the fact that for this you will have to open the skin on the doors. The curtain plus new casing - $ 1600, installation work - $ 120.

Text Dmitry Gronsky, photo Alexey Ilyin
Costs (April 22 - May 20)
Mileage 2600 km, gasoline consumption - 380 liters
AI-95 gasoline ($ 0.3)-$ 117
Motor oil - $ 10
Sink and cleaning of the salon (3 x $ 10) - 30
In just a month - $ 157

 

Source: "Autopilot"