- Blue-plated California car with zero rust and no accidents
- Garage-kept for past 20 years
- Runs great and very reliable
- E39 15” Style 29 wheels. Tires in very good condition.
- No shimmies or shakes. A smooth, comfortable driver
- Gets decent mileage (20 in the city, close to 30 on the highway if you’re careful)
- Near-new factory windshield and gasket
- Perfect crack-free dash with dash mat
- Euro headlights
- Clean interior with 535i steering column and steering wheel and custom (Bavauto) rubber floor mats
- Keyless central locking
- Complete 535i toolkit
- Single-stage alpinweiss paint is holding up well
- Includes Thule roof rack with wind deflector, and a lot of spare parts (spare H1/H4 headlights, ICV, windshield wipers inserts, spare cylinder head, etc, and a not-too-bad but a bit rusty on the inside euro front bumper with brackets and euro turn signals that I never got around to installing).
- Has always easily passed smog test
- E46 manual front seats in front. Driver’s seat is just starting to split a little bit. Cloth rear set with no tears. Interior has been switched from beige to black, but we kept the door cards as-is for a little contrast. I think I have some decent black cards though.
- 248k miles
- Gas gauge is extremely optimistic
- Temperature gauge only seems to work in the summer
- Leaks both engine oil and transmission fluid. Not enough to be noticeable on the dipstick between oil changes, but enough to get the pan wet enough that I need to clean it up every week or so. At one point I was thinking of replacing the head gasket in hopes of solving the engine oil leak, but decided it wasn’t worth the trouble. I bought the parts, which are included with the car. I think the rear seal is leaking on the transmission. I keep an eye on the fluid and put a little in every 6 months to a year (guessing).
- Some dings, particularly as shown in photos. Some on the roof from the roof rack (damned bikes! – my fault) and one on the hood from the kayak whose strap broke and fell into the bike stand which got knocked over and hit the car (not my fault)
- Some small tears in headliner over right C-pillar
- Has fairly new A/C compressor running R134a, but needs a can of refrigerant once in a while. And cools about as good as an e28 A/C running R134a. A lot better than nothing, but not totally adequate.
$4500
