X5 stalled/set codes while being inspected!

[workingonit]

The visit to the BMW dealer (30 miles, each way) took 2 hours. I had my wife drive me there, because she is familiar with central Ft.Worth and Tarrant County, while I used to be familiar with Dallas and Dallas County.

I repeat, used to be, since I grew up there, and lived in Dallas County for 39 of my 75 years...the other 36 were spent living in SE Tarrant County, and Plano in Collin County, though I drove in & commuted to and through Dallas County (120+ miles a day for the last 22 years before retirement), ever since I was 15, up to age 65.5, when I retired.

I made myself a promise not to venture back into that congested area, with the ridiculous traffic, if I could avoid it, and the same is to be said about Ft.Worth traffic, now, as well, though it isn't nearly as bad. I already swore off Austin and San Antonio, traveling down the I-35 mobile parking lot (I spent a lot of time in both, during the 60s-80s), and gave up on Houston in the 70s. Too many cars, too many people.

I remember old Texas of the 50s-mid 70s (before the Rust Belt people invaded), when driving was fun, not a chore. But now, driving is a pain. The only bright spot of my trip today to the BMW dealer, was to see all the BMW's lined up (too bad I can't get one).

[workingonit]

I took my HHR Panel to the November inspection (late, but within the grace period), and the same inspection guy (that I've used for years)asked how was my BMW. I told him that he killed it, hahaha, and please don't kill my HHR.

I told him that I don't (publicly/officially) believe in coincidences, but he triggered (exposed) a series of three things (it's always three bads) wrong that I need to fix before he sees my X5 again.

On the same note, when at the tax & registration office,
I asked the clerk what the new procedure was to get a temporary registration tag or waiver, so I could drive the X when I resume the repairs. I had to get two 10-day temporary tags so I could test drive my HHR Panel, in 2016, after it had taken me 10 months to find & repair the problems (wasn't trying very hard, since I parked it during my last few weeks before retirement).


The clerk said that if it took me until next October to repair the X5, then I could just skip the process, since the X5 would no longer require inspection. Funny, but I had sorta thought of the same thing...time spent saving my money up to buy NEW OEM parts (instead of getting cheap ones, Vine parts, or ones donated to me by friends on the forum), that would surely work as designed, and that even I wouldn't mess up.

The countdown begins, at 304 days to go....