m5 badge!

[weazman187]

what do you guys think??

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/M-Pow...34627679QQrdZ1

[Michael999]

Is your car an M5?...

[Flamin'Cow]

2 problems with this badge,

i) - Its the same size as the rear badge (i.e. Too large)

ii) - Its being shipped from Hong-Kong abd trust me, you never, NEVER want to buy anything on eBay from anywhere that says 'China, Singapore, Hong Kong etc' as the country of origin.

[Macv]

Not a fan of badged non-m5's.

[Qube]

Is your car an M5?...

You'll make real M5's look bad when you get toasted.

[ILoveMPower]

Don't do it.

[Flamin'Cow]

Dear All,

Normally I would be in agreemtn with you RE the whole badge thing. I have seen cars badged up as M3's when they are blatantly 318's or even worse 316's....

However,

When I got my car it didn't have a badge on the back. It looks like an M5 (as it has the body kit fitted) and so I (ahem) 'attached' an M5 badge........(sorry).

Okay, well no-one is going to know (except all the thousands of people who use this site - bugger), but hey, It basically IS an M5 anyway.....

Its got the factory fitted 'Sport' body-kit, Leather upholstery, M-Tech steering wheel and gear-knob, M-Tech suspension, M5 3.91 LSD and it is a 3.5 straight 6, so allthough not a 'stop-light killer' it is defo a 'Motorway Monster'....

I have personally raced a REAL E30 M3 on the motorway. Pulled up along side him at about 60mph, he looked at my car, I looked at his.....He floored it, I dropped it to 3rd and floored it - He was well gone by the time (not long afterwards) that 140mph was registering on my clock......

So yeah, I know that perhaps I shouldn't have. Thankfully I have the power to back-up my claim - but living where I do, there are NO 'real' M5's anyway and I just love the looks I get from Jonny-French-man when he sees a PHAT looking E34 that he thinks is an M5....

Over here most cars are Diesel, you get quite alot of E34's, but they are all 'standard' and I am yet to see one that looks like mine.......

Heres a couple of pics - all I need now is an M-Tech badge to go on the front grill.....

[632 Regal]

UKM5 got new windows in his house!

[VentoGT]

You have the rear badge from an e39 car [the e28 and e34 badges were flat, not rounded, and slightly smaller than the e39-e60] and it is mounted too high--it should be in the middle of the turn signal lamp from a height perspective and centered above the inner red lamps by about 5mm.

I'm never a fan of badging any car something that it's not; to each his own, but oh well. Also, the link for your auction is down so I'm guessing that eBay removed the listing.

[jrobbo]

Hey Flamin'Cow,

Just to be different to everyone else, I would suggest that it's your car, and if you want to put an M5 badge on it, then that's cool.

Nice looking car, and great photo location, thanks for sharing

Regards

John