Yup my way, the hardest fricken way possible.
So the mods began yesterday. Got a brand new set of LED clear tail lights for the wife's XSuperior5. Easy enough right? A couple nuts were in hard to reach places but nothing that wasn't unmanageable. The connections didn't mate up exactly but that wasn't a hill for this stepper. Here's where all hell broke loose; while putting everything back together, 1, Uno, Single, Solitary, 3/16" socket fell while tightening the right side.......
HOLY SHEET.....I thought the E-46 had some Black Holes but the X5 takes the cake. fetch telescoping magnet on antenna - Bust telescoping magnet on an antenna. Fetch anything long & flexible and spend another two hours cursing Craftsman (Because it was their socket). Get dressed, drive in to town (After some teasing from the wife, my one red shoe leading the way), go to Autozone and buy every flexible magnet, or something to get in there they have. Come home and continue with the fishing side show. Spend another two hours cursing Craftsman & Autozone. NOW I'M PISSED!! Did the socket vaporize when it hit bottom? WTF? Remove half the crud in the rear compartment to include the OEM sub woofer and everything around it. Pick up socket (That was nicely sitting under the sub woofer smiling and laughing at me), call socket every name in the book and then throw it as far as I possibly can out into a field. Wife comes out to see if every things okay, says lights look nice as if it was only a 15 minute job.
Time to put everything back together........Now where did that socket go?
But Daggum It, I still love them BMW's!!!
10-22-2010, 06:59 AM
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