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09-17-2013, 11:46 AM | #1211 |
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Since you asked for more pics...and I clearly have way too many of my car in parking lots as I always love seeing my baby sitting there when I go back to it, here's one I hadn't posted before.
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09-17-2013, 11:54 AM | #1212 |
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Wow the PE really looks like it is sticking out there
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09-17-2013, 12:10 PM | #1213 |
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very nice!!! i'm really starting to dig Mineral Grey....
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09-17-2013, 12:11 PM | #1214 |
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I'm just excited to be getting a BSM car, there doesn't seem to be that many on here, Either that or they just don't get the love they deserve.
IEDEI - Got any idea how much longer you'll be waiting? This week I hope!
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09-17-2013, 12:11 PM | #1215 |
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Thanks? I don't think you'll really quite know how far it sticks out til you get it and see it in person. Here's another one of it in the blazing sun where you can see how prominent it is. It bothers some people and I imagine was a big reason why people get the CF diffusor, since it fits and suits it much better.
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09-17-2013, 12:13 PM | #1217 |
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Think I told you when you ordered it, I don't think there are any BSM IS people on here, or at least not active ones. I know Stampchez has a black one but pretty sure his is jet black.
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09-17-2013, 12:18 PM | #1218 | |
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And then when people like mb135is and bp-plickner post their photos after they put it on, especially bp since he has a mineral grey, it pains me and i really want one...then i calm down after a few days and all is well again. |
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09-17-2013, 12:19 PM | #1219 | |
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09-17-2013, 05:41 PM | #1220 |
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No, the photo is post tint! Somewhere in the 30% VLT range.
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09-17-2013, 05:46 PM | #1221 |
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Weird. Must be the lighting or something, but the back window looked very clear to me. Of course, I'm also blind. But my tint seems to look very different in pictures from different angles and lighting situations.
Actually, looking at it again, it's probably the oyster interior that may make it look that way to me since I'm so used to seeing the dark interior through the windows. NEVERMIND! You may now focus on getting past 1200 miles to start really letting her out. |
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09-17-2013, 08:33 PM | #1222 | |
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09-17-2013, 08:36 PM | #1223 |
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That must be one hell of a great sound when you start the cold car in that parking structure!!!
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09-17-2013, 09:16 PM | #1224 | |
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I'm curious why you decided to wait until after the break in period though to then put on the michelins? Oh, it's so much better with them on. The car handles and drives the way car was intended to without feeling like you're driving on concrete squares. I'll be curious to hear your thoughts afterwards. Actually, my normal garage is much better as that other one in that picture is just at my local Trader Joe's parking lot, but is nice to drive around in there with my windows down and making it burble. <fights back tear> That's where I heard my very first burble, learning how to do it by taking foot off the gas. |
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09-17-2013, 10:24 PM | #1225 |
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And to be a post whore, anyone see this video before? Or Rik, I forgot to ask, did you get to see/drive the fleet of lemans blue 135is cars at the Performance Center?
Anyways, here's a fun video with good audio of two 135is's racing around a slick track with a lovely burble at the end as he pulls back in in shame: |
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09-18-2013, 01:17 PM | #1226 |
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I'm meeting up with Dan (3002tii) Sunday so he can help me install my hardwire V1. We've been talking about getting NY/NJ 135is people together. Join up for a brief meeting! Edgewater Multiplex Cinema 333 River Road Edgewater, NJ 07020 10am!
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09-18-2013, 07:04 PM | #1227 |
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Took a picture walking out of work today on my phone. Looks super bright/white but I like it.
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09-18-2013, 07:08 PM | #1228 |
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Yes!!! I did see and drive one of the Lemans Blue 135is cars at the PC!!! As you know, for much of the driving instruction they put you in a car like the one you will drive home. Here's a photo sitting in the driver's seat (with wife in passenger seat) doing a radio check and last-minute instructions from Andy Van Cleef before getting started, second photo the 135is we drove (just prior to our M5 demo lap). They told us there are 8 delivery slots per day at the PC, but there were only 5 the day we were there. Delivered that day was an X3, X6, X1, 750i, and our 135is.
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I actually didn't know that much about the Performance Center delivery option because it's never been a very feasible option for us west coasters unfortunately. I was never sure if you got performance driving instruction and experience in YOUR actual car you were buying and/or I just assumed they had a fleet of various m-cars that you got to drive around in. So, I hadn't even contemplated or fathomed them having a 135is there until a few days ago when that professional photographer on here posted performance center pics and I saw 2 lemans blue IS's! And then I saw that video I posted the next day, too. So, that sounds 1,000 times better than I could have imagined since you get professional driving lessons in an identical car to your own and get to really drive and push THEIRS before getting in yours and driving home, knowing the full potential and limits of our lil guys. Now I'm really jealous. And about to go open my giant box with the BMW trunk luggage mat thingy and tire bag as I prep to try out a full size spare this weekend and see how I mentally handle losing most my trunk. |
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The PC is 99% about driving schools and technical instruction... car deliveries are a maximum of 8 per day and obviously a tiny portion of the overall PC activities (we are definitely going back in the spring for an M driving school course!). The entire door-to-door experience was fantastic... one of my wife's favorite trips (and that is saying A LOT). BMW really does it right... picking you up at the airport, putting you up in the Marriott, feeding you, etc. Driving away in a new 135is with 600 miles of open road ahead was the cherry on top! -- Rick
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