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      07-19-2011, 01:34 AM   #1
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Picked up my car this morning.

After a long wait, I finally picked up my Alpine White 1M, with Nav and Apps. The delivery process was the smoothest and most pleasant I have experienced. Harry at Bema Autosport was awesome. He has been trying to sell me a car since I was a twenty-something year old university punk.

The drive home was fun, but on a boring stretch of divided highway. I was concerned about the break-in on such a road, but made the best of it by switching gears from 6th to 5th, 4th and sometimes 3rd, all the while varying the RPM from about 2,000-4,500. I set the speed warning to 170 kph, just in case I forgot about the break-in speed limit.

The acceleration in higher gears is notably breathtaking. I accidentally went wide open throttle a few times, because the pedal travel seems shorter than I'm used to. Seems like 2.5-3 inches. Experimenting with the throttle response was fun. It was like the thing has electric motors. For example, it seemed like there is a given acceleration for each minute throttle position. If you push it another 1 cm, it is almost like the turbos spool up to the higher RPM, then you are at a higher acceleration instantly. This car could pull out stumps, I'm sure.

I had bought the iPhone 4 media snap-in adapter ahead of time from www.getbmwparts.com. Twitter and Facebook was kind of neat. The plugin was great (the one where you get all the iPod funcionality on the Nav screen).

My wife had a drive. She loved it! I'm surprised, as she normally doesn't get excited about cars. Now she wants her own BMW!! What have I created? (Hopefully she likes the 5-Series, or better yet, M5 )

Calculated fuel mileage so far is 11.7 L/100km. I didn't notice any obvious droning. The seats are nice, although after 3 hours, my butt was getting sore. I had my little ones in the back, so had the seat slid forward more and reclined less than I like to accommodate them. I'm 6'7" tall, and didn't feel my hair touching the ceiling.

So far, I have not scraped the front lip, or diff cooler. I'm very cautious with those ones, and have briefed my wife well. I can't say I was so careful at the gas station when I parked downwind, opened the door and it flew open into the pump!! Holy frick I almost had a bird. By some stroke of magic/luck/God send, I must have hit the plasticky nozzle cover and only left a black mark which rubbed off easily with my finger. I thought for sure there was gonna be a dent. Almost ruined a very nice day.

Once I was home, parked it in the garage and used the bug and tar remover to get rid of all the bug carcasses. I think I'm gonna keep a bottle of it and a rag in the trunk. Managed to get the BMW My Remote app working (via iTunes UK download). As I speak, my DVD In Motion file has arrived. (For entertaining the kiddies). The only other "mod" I plan on doing is enabling the rear fog lights. I have to find a European light switch first for that one.

All in all, it was a terrific ending to an, at times, agonizing wait. I placed my order sometime in March. This is my first BMW, as well as my first high performance car. I love it. Of course it was worth the wait.

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      07-19-2011, 03:01 AM   #2
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Welcome to the club! Glad you like it.
Keep us posted on how your getting on with it.
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      07-19-2011, 03:03 AM   #3
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Congrats!!
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      07-19-2011, 03:54 AM   #4
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Congrats ! Enjoy your car !
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      07-19-2011, 04:08 AM   #5
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Congrats mate

Happy motoring ............
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      07-19-2011, 04:11 AM   #6
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enjoy mate ....get some pics up ....
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      07-28-2011, 03:55 PM   #7
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I thought this picture was kinda funny, sort of anti-clean. Normally I keep it bug-free, but had to run and catch a flight. My wife has some nicer ones on her camera, that we haven't transferred to a computer yet.
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      07-28-2011, 04:01 PM   #8
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I hope you didn't catch a flight and the car will remain this way for longer than a few hours/days...you may be setting yourself up for a nice clear coat etching surprise if the bugs are acidic.
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      07-28-2011, 04:43 PM   #9
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jeebus! do you live in a moth preserve!? thats possibly the worst bugging of a car i've ever seen! get 'em off post haste!
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      07-28-2011, 04:49 PM   #10
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wow hahahaha thats insane. haha at least you cleaned your windshield. Wonder what that looked like from the inside
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jeebus! do you live in a moth preserve!? thats possibly the worst bugging of a car i've ever seen! get 'em off post haste!

You should come over here to DE and see what driving thru bugs at V-max (or close to it!) can do to the front end of a car! lol Its like bugs being shot out of a shotgun at you!
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You should come over here to DE and see what driving thru bugs at V-max (or close to it!) can do to the front end of a car! lol Its like bugs being shot out of a shotgun at you!
i actually did a fair amount of v-max in a white 1m a couple weeks back in germany (around the ring24 and mfest week), but was fortunate not to have made a mess of the car! we DID, however, make a bit of a mess out of our frozen black M3 in the mfest mud! the photo doesn't do it justice, but frozen black really doesn't wear dirt too well! ...and i wish i had a picture of the poor carpets!


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that's a load of money. nice cars.
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      07-28-2011, 06:11 PM   #14
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I live in southern SK, and 95%+ of my driving is smashing bugs on the highway. Hopefully, the Turtle Wax Bug and Tar remover that I used 5 or 6 times so far has enough wax in it that there is a protective coating on the bumper.
Dackel, I'd love to see that first hand. Planning on coming over for the Autoshow in September with a co-worker.
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Saskatchewan? Yeah, I've been peeling em off big time in Alberta.

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I live in southern SK, and 95% of my driving is smashing bugs on the highway. Hopefully, the Turtle Wax Bug and Tar remover that I used 5 or 6 times so far has enough wax in it that there is a protective coating on the bumper.
Dackel, I'd love to see that first hand. Planning on coming over for the Autoshow in September with a co-worker.
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I thought this picture was kinda funny, sort of anti-clean. Normally I keep it bug-free, but had to run and catch a flight. My wife has some nicer ones on her camera, that we haven't transferred to a computer yet.
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Last week, I saw some bug strikes on the front of the rear tire arch. At first, I was thinking, "Whoa, those rear arches are wide!!" Upon closer inspection, it was blood splatter from some sort of road kill! Adventures in Saskatchewan!! PS-I cleaned that one up ASAP.
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I thought this picture was kinda funny, sort of anti-clean. Normally I keep it bug-free, but had to run and catch a flight. My wife has some nicer ones on her camera, that we haven't transferred to a computer yet.
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Got a good coating of a different species of bug last week. More like mosquitoes and flies than moths. Was very time consuming to remove them. Had to resort to clay bar, which worked like a charm. Does the clay have any adverse effect if used too much? I suspect it will wear down the wax coating or clear coat at worst.
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Does the clay have any adverse effect if used too much? I suspect it will wear down the wax coating or clear coat at worst.
Clay bar just removes any heavy surface contaminants / fallout etc, if wont affect your paint or clearcoat if used with some sort of lubricant like quick detailer or the likes.......
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Does the clay have any adverse effect if used too much? I suspect it will wear down the wax coating or clear coat at worst.
Clay bar just removes any heavy surface contaminants / fallout etc, if wont affect your paint or clearcoat if used with some sort of lubricant like quick detailer or the likes.......
OK. Good. Used with detailing spray.
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