My summer is sucking balls!!! In May the timing chain tensioner in my wife's Audi A4 failed. Yep, worst case scenario. Pistons banging into valves and engine being rebuilt. In fact, as of yesterday her car has been in the shop for 2 months. I still have no idea what that bill is going to be but I expect it to be in the $3500-$5000 range. Hopefully the pending class action lawsuit against Audi comes through and I get reimbursed.
So while her car has been in the shop, she is using the X5 and I'm using my M3 as a daily driver which sucks because I've gotten a couple good rock chips in the hood and a chip in the wind shield too.
So the other day I notice the right front tire on the X5 is low. I just put new Contis on in May so I figured she must have caught a nail in the tire. I make an appointment at the tire shop for the repair and come back an hour after dropping it off to hear the service technician say "I've got bad news." So I figure the nail is in the sidewall and I need a new tire. Nope. The wheel is cracked. The technician says "you'll need to call BMW and order a new wheel." Unfortunately not that easy. I bought these wheels on Craigslist and they are aftermarket. There are plenty of wheels that look similar but I'm not about to have 1 wheel that is slightly different that the rest. So now I'm spending another $800 for a set of wheels, then having to spend however much to have the 4 tires switched over to the new wheels.
With out question, this will be the most money I've spent in a summer on car repairs.
Wes
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