Rainy Day

Geregistreerd op: 09 Apr 2026 Berichten: 6

Eyeing a used M5 in Abu Dhabi but the N63 engine horror stories have me spooked, is a PPI actually thorough enough to catch the big stuff?

So I've been scrolling through the classifieds way too late at night and I found a 2018 M5 that's priced suspiciously well at a showroom in Mussafah and my heart is telling me to just go for it because the spec is perfect with the Bowers sound and the carbon ceramics but my brain keeps replaying every forum thread I've ever read about the hot V turbo setup cooking the coolant lines and the injectors deciding to retire early and take the whole engine with them, the dealer showed me a service history that's got some gaps where the oil changes were done at random independent shops and that's the part that's making me hesitate because on a car like this the difference between a well maintained example and a future money pit is usually just a few skipped maintenance intervals and some hard cold starts, I started looking into getting a proper inspection done by someone who actually knows these S63 engines and I came across https://exoticautoservices.ae/bmw/bmw-pre-purchase-inspection-abu-dhbai/ and the checklist they have online seems to cover the specific things I'm worried about like checking for oil in the turbo intakes and reading the adaptation values on the DCT but I guess I'm just trying to gauge from other owners if a pre purchase inspection on a modern M car is really going to give me the full picture or if some of these issues are just ticking time bombs that no amount of visual inspection can predict, because I don't want to be that guy posting on here in six months about how his M5 is in limp mode on the side of the E11 with a coolant leak and a very sad looking bank account.