Cliff3, whenever I see your car on this forum, I'm in awe of it's beauty and it makes me crazier to have to wait for mine.Cliff3 said:Once the car was scheduled for production, I called daily until it was on a ship. The web site is not updated every day, so calling BMWNA was the more useful activity. If you're on the left coast, you even get an extra week to wait while the ship travels across the Carribean and through the Panama Canal.
The car is/was definitely worth waiting for :thumbup:
bmwguynj said:I am finding that I am doing this everyday (at least checking online)
bmwguynj said:For all you with cars on order or had them order, how often did / do you find yourself checking the order tracking on the owners circle or calling BMW customer service to check the status code?
Patience is tough these days, but it's well worth it.
Ever since I moved out here to the "left coast" from the other coast, I have learned to accept getting screwed by those people back east! :eeps: What do you do? At least all the football games are pretty much over by 4 p.m. out here on Sundays! :thumbup:Cliff3 said:Once the car was scheduled for production, I called daily until it was on a ship. The web site is not updated every day, so calling BMWNA was the more useful activity. If you're on the left coast, you even get an extra week to wait while the ship travels across the Carribean and through the Panama Canal.
The car is/was definitely worth waiting for :thumbup:
Cliff3 said:I wish that I had the time to take several pictures at the location of the picture in my sig. I had recently passed a couple of HUGE 5th wheel RV's whom I had been stuck behind for 20 miles, and they were barreling down on me. I saw the bridge while approaching Newport Oregon and instantly thought: photo op. One quick snapshot, jump in the car and haul ass out of there in advance of the lumbering behemoths. :banghead:
There are a few Cliff's on this forum. In my case, the 3 is a handy, dual purpose suffix (Jr thinks I spent too much for my car, but then he drives a Subaru).
twosomeca said:
Damn, that's the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Hey, I hope you took the time to stop at that ugly looking plant on the south side of the bridge before driving over it. If you didn't, you missed the home of Rogue Ales, one of the best brewpubs on the west coast, uh, make that the U.S./N.A. PCH from No. Cal. up to Astoria, OR is a hell of a drive for the 3er!
Cliff3 said:
I think I hit Newport fairly early in the day, so no brewpub stops for me. I'll save that for future reference should I get up that way again though. 101 was actually kind of a spotty drive, thanks to drivers like this one:
Probably the best drive of the trip was on 47 from Clatskanie down to McMinnville. I only saw 2 vehicles on that road: an unloaded logging truck who was hauling some serious butt, and a local in a little Subaru who had no fear. There was no need to pass either driver.
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If I do the coast drive again, I'll head from North to South instead of the opposite. All the turnouts to view the magnificent scenery were on the wrong side of the road...