He had to do it.... He just had to 
 
 
 
To echo my bro's comment, and to bring back good memories (and YES, both of us get sick when we get a new car - that is true, all kidding aside), I took a morning off today to seal the deal... Once the papers were signed, my left eye started to twitch, and I barely made it back to the office...
 
I do promise, to the entire X5world community, to take this car apart as much as I can without breaking the warranty, to find all imperfections, and, most importantly, solutions for the later. For a proof of that, just venture over to the odyclub.com and search for all posts made by alexmish/alexmish1...all 4,300+ of them during 1.5 years of "active posting"...(and I wasn't just welcoming new members there 

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Let's put it this way:  I wrote this checklist before the first Ody even hit dealers' lots ! (
http://home.comcast.net/~2005odyfan/Checklist.html)
 
And if one day you open a newspaper (ok, who opens newspapers these days - let's say a news website) and find an article about 2 gray-looking BMW X5 drag-racing in a quiet NJ suburbia, you'll know immediately who those are 
