It was done because recirculating ball “felt” more luxurious at the time.

Easily fixed with the many pixel repair parts and services out there.

It is a cost versus miles/ hidden issues; as you said it is a enthusiasts car so how hard was it driven. As we know hard driving equals increased wear and tear and it is a BMW so even one that old means costly repairs. Also as you mentioned it is a AZ car which while it means not freeze thaw or coastal salt spray it…

Only thing I forgot to add is these older BMWs can be an ok deal if you do your own work. My brother has had somewhere between a 5-10 older 3 and 5 series. He has a lot more repair stories than I have for my Lexus IS300, but if you do it yourself and stay on top of known issues like cooling systems, it doesn’t sound…

Tell me you’re an E39 fanboi without telling me you’re an E39 fanboi, I’ll go first :D.

The fact that any are still live after all this time is a miracle.

Yep. May have overpaid a little + happy with what you got for the money = nice price.

Agree. And if you can do it yourself, a way to get a bargain.

I’m just suspicious of any 540i ad which doesn’t mention the guides.

Instead of throwing my own comment in, I’m just going to “second” what you said. Pretty much summed it up for me.

IDK; I mean...it’s a 20 year old, enthusiast car-how many miles should it have on it? People complain when they sit in vacuum-sealed garages and say “cars are meant to be driven!”...then someone actually drives them and then it’s “this car has too many miles!”. I have a newer car with more miles on it TBH and would…

If it was a reasonable price and needed timing chain guides I would do it. Not exactly trivial to replace but there is a well worn pathway on how to do it.

More than made up for by the myriad buttons. Let us tactile feedback denizens rejoice and raise a toast.

So, the warning triangle was left on the side of the road.  Hmmm.....

We did lobster tails last year. Due to a blood-sugar-crash related brain fart, we ended up over-buying by a rather large margin. Ultimately resulting in 26 or so tails between 5 people.

I was on a phone call with Shatner for a work thing that required minor small talk and I wanted to stab myself in the eye he was so insufferable and self-important.

Yeah. Me too. Shatner is arrogant and egotistical, and Takai did VA work for Like A Dragon which will always endear him to me, but I just can’t stay mad at Denny Crane.

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole.
If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” -Raylan Givens, Justified

If Shatner donated all his money to charity and Takei ate a live baby, I think I’d still be on Team Takei.

It’s like dude, if you have long-lasting feuds with (I think!) every cast member from your show (even Nimoy at the end, and Nimoy got along with him for a long time!), maybe the problem isn’t the rest of the cast.

I’ve been using a roasting pan and a tall rack for most of my cooking life. I also stuff the heck out of my turkey and truss the legs. I also shove herbed butter under the skin of the breast and then cover said breast for most of the roasting time with a big square of foil to retard the roasting temp as well as…