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I ordered my first BMW, and the long, painful wait began, 11 weeks to delivery. No response necessary, just wanted to share the date that I finally purchased one of the best automobiles on this planet called Earth. :)

Incidently, 14,500 miles, no creaks, no rattles, no sticky pedal, no NOTHING. The car is perfect (except after two weeks I DID have to have the speaker in the drivers side front door replaced)
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Wow . . . the 3 month wait must have been a killer but the past 9 months of ownership for you must have gone by fast . . .

My 330Ci (which is almost your cars twin) is almost 2 years old and it's got a drop over 15,000 miles . . .
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Well, I am thinking of starting to drive my truck more on my commute, its 300 miles a week...just to keep the milege low on the car, but then a friend said "you bought the [email protected]#^damn car to drive! Why NOT put the miles on it??" Made sense to me!

I love this car. I still turn around and admire its beauty every time I go into the house from the garage.
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It's been a year already? WOW...time flies...and so do Bimmers.

Congrats on 1 year Rip :thumbup:
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Ripsnort said:
Well, I am thinking of starting to drive my truck more on my commute, its 300 miles a week...just to keep the milege low on the car, but then a friend said "you bought the [email protected]#^damn car to drive! Why NOT put the miles on it??" Made sense to me!

I love this car. I still turn around and admire its beauty every time I go into the house from the garage.
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I agree with your friend. It's the ultimate driving machine not the ultimate look-at-it-sitting-in-your driveway machine. ;)

BTW - happy anniversary :D
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Ripsnort said:
Well, I am thinking of starting to drive my truck more on my commute, its 300 miles a week...just to keep the milege low on the car, but then a friend said "you bought the [email protected]#^damn car to drive! Why NOT put the miles on it??" Made sense to me!

I love this car. I still turn around and admire its beauty every time I go into the house from the garage.
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A few miles aren't going to hurt the car and the way you maintain it, you shouldn't suffer too much on resale even with higher mileage. An informed buyer will understand.
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Congrats on one year! Definitely drive and enjoy. Trust me, the car gets better with age. I've got about 40k miles (in 3.5 years)on mine and it definitely runs better than ever!
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RichNY said:
Congrats on one year! Definitely drive and enjoy. Trust me, the car gets better with age. I've got about 40k miles (in 3.5 years)on mine and it definitely runs better than ever!
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Thats good to hear...I plan on owning this one for at least 5 years...was thinking "M3" route, but common sense got the better of me, we're going to start building our retirement Cabin in Montana soon, instead of depreciation, I'll have appreciation in my next investment. :)
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in_d_haus said:
...time flies...and so do Bimmers.
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Just don't drag race them new model Maximas out there :( :lmao:

Congrats Rip :thumbup:
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Ripsnort said:


Thats good to hear...I plan on owning this one for at least 5 years...was thinking "M3" route, but common sense got the better of me, we're going to start building our retirement Cabin in Montana soon, instead of depreciation, I'll have appreciation in my next investment. :)
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While we're at it...

I also just had my one year - 14K miles...i too had to wait almost three months...but I had steering problems, creaks, HK rattles, rattle'n rear brake pads (yes you read that right) and more then a couple of dealer run ins...A year and two weeks later...my car is fianlly (knock on wood) running the way it should have when I first got it...sorry to be a kill joy...i must have gotten a friday car:dunno:
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Congrats Rip!! :)

Almost 20 months and 19K here. I agree with, this is also the best car I have ever owned.

Well minus, two sunshades being eaten, door seals replaced, passenger door tweeter and mid replaced, new window seal, and various other minor crap!! :mad:

How is you crack in the windshield holding up?
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Re: While we're at it...

Trea said:
I also just had my one year - 14K miles...i too had to wait almost three months...but I had steering problems, creaks, HK rattles, rattle'n rear brake pads (yes you read that right) and more then a couple of dealer run ins...A year and two weeks later...my car is fianlly (knock on wood) running the way it should have when I first got it...sorry to be a kill joy...i must have gotten a friday car:dunno:
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:( Sorry to hear that...when I bought a new Audi back in 1980 I received that "Friday car"...:dunno:

They just have to stop letting the German workers drink beer on the dang assembly line!
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