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2003 BMW 525it Wagon E39 Mint Condition Totally Restored! $20K invested

Condition: Used
Make: BMW
Model: 5-Series
Type: Wagon
Year: 2003
Mileage: 70,000
VIN: WBADS43443GE11172
Color: Gray
Number of cylinders: 6
Transmission: Automatic
Interior color: Black
Vehicle Title: Clear
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2003 BMW 5-Series Description

The time has come to sell my wagon as my awesome wagon just sits in the driveway and needs to find a loving home.
I have about $18K into it of which $3K was professional labor, $7K initial purchase and $8K in parts . Can provide an itemized list. It has been raining in Austin, TX (where I moved in the summer) for the past few days and I will get some good photos in the next day or 2 and post. Normally people have invested a lot in their cars and then have driven them another 50K-100K miles. My car has 250 miles after modifications / restorations. It is currently at 70K miles. While Ebay's AutoCheck reports >200K miles, this is not correct. CarFax is correct and reports exactly what I have. The car was purchased from Honda of Little Rock and mileage was reported correctly. I contacted AutoCheck to revise and they are a nigthmare!
Everything is brand new, including a recently installed Pioneer NEX 5800 stereo system, Alpine door speakers with an NXV 5 channel amp and Basser enclosure with sub . Most of the preventive maintenance has been done within that last 50 miles, radiator, fan clutch, fan, belts, belt tensioners, water pump, vcg, vanos seals, 3 x air filters, etc. All suspension part (all Lemforder) are brand new including bushings, shocks and struts (ST Coilovers) and lowered. All new tires (Continental DW performance tires 19? 235/265). Currently running Style 95s with a full E39->E60 Hub/Bearing upgrade so you do not have to run adapters to run non-E39 wheels @ 72.56mm. Opens up alot of choices for wheels.
It is effectively a new car.
The grey carpet, grey lower dash and front and rear door cards have been exchanged with black to get a two tone effect with the grey seats. Looks amazing. The grey carpet in these cars stain easily and look like crap. The pieces were bought together from a guy on the east coast and are in perfect condition.
There a few tiny things left to be fixed.
I accidentally threw out one of the wood grain panel strips from the rear seat door card. Will need to buy new trim replacement.
The sunroof has a very slight rattle on the highway only (apparently a common issue).
The headlight washer tubing feeding the sprayer nozzles is aged and broke. Needs to be replaced. I purchased the new electric motor for the headlight sprayer but bought the wrong tubing to fix (bought the windshield sprayer tubing. The driver side rear door jam plastic is broken (replacement included but not installed)
There a few things that are less than perfect:
When they installed the stereo they slightly damaged a 1"x1" area of the back window plastic surround. They glued it back together and it looks fine. You would not notice unless I mentioned it. Underneath the car at the very center of the front bumper it looks like someone before me may have rolled up to a concrete parking stop in a parking lot and scuffed the surface. Hard to see unless you are laying down in front of the car.
The headlights are a 7.5/10 but could use a light sanding per the DIY online.
The passenger rear tire has a few scuffs on it from rubbing the wheel well which I fixed immediately by removing an unnecessary spacer that was installed at the shop that did the hub/bearings
My build thread (incomplete) in on bimmerforum, search for the same user as my Ebay username.
I have a lot of interior grey and black parts that I will include. No door cards or carpet. I do have black seats belts which would be very cool once installed.
I have gone back and forth on whether to keep or sell this car as you can read in some of my posts. Once I moved from Chicago to Austin, TX this summer, I just am not driving nearly as much and cannot justify the extra car. My loss (everything invested) is your gain. You are getting an amazing car at fraction of the cost. Happy to discuss the car on the phone if interested.

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