I would be too scared to buy one, but years ago a friend of mine had one when they were new and it was amazing.
I would be too scared to buy one, but years ago a friend of mine had one when they were new and it was amazing.
In reply to DirtyBird222 :
Maintenance hasn't been an issue for me. Just follow regular maintenance like checking hydraulic fluid level. It's more the driving experience. I've driven dual clutch transmission in Porsches . They shift quick and clean. The SMG will shift but not as quickly. The shift quickness is adjustable and it will shift relatively quickly if you keep your foot to the floor, running it to the wonderful 7,850 redline. If you just want to drive like a sane person around town, it gets lazy. You can learn to drive the car smoothly if you shift with the paddles and lift the throttle briefly. For me it's really the 1-2 shift that's the most annoying. But that's only at very light throttle. Which around town, for me, is most of the time. I believe there is a setting where the car will start in 2nd but I haven't messed with it. I'm a couple of interior trim pieces short of being comfortable with doing a manual swap. The mechanical side is straight forward using an E92 M3 manual trans. But I won't do it unless I can make the console look factory and I can't find a part number for the panel with a button that fills the space in the console behind the shift boot.
Nothing really unique about the M5/M6 in terms of maintenance or tools. Anyone one comfortable with working on 2004 and up BMWs has the tools and experience necessary.
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