Went full circle

[525iT_Feen]

I guess I hadn't had my full dose of the 4.8is when I sold my Lemans. I bought an 08 Monaco Blue 750i Sport which was a great car and one that I thoroughly enjoyed but it had the misfortune of meeting its maker and I decided to back track back to a 4.8 since any other car I want is $40k + and I can't justify spending that kind of $ right now.

Guidelines for purchase were that it had to be under 75k, 06, and not black or Lemans. I realized this was tough once I started looking and couldn't find any that met my criteria but, luckily, on the day I was going to throw in the towel I found a 06 Silver/Black fully optioned (minus nav) 4.8iS with 59k. I flew to NC and drove it home last weekend. The car has been great (minus scoring me a speeding ticket the first night I had it). I am purchasing a complete extended warranty for it in the next couple of days and have quite a few things planned for serious mods but not until spring.

Mods so far:
- Roof Rail Delete
- 30mm Rear Spacers
- Debadge (and removed the disgusting painted pin stripe it had)
- BMW/Weathertech Deep All season mats
- lowering links since I have them laying around and don't have constant access to GT1 to play with height (installing Saturday)
- xpipe (installing Saturday)
- LED bulbs (installing Saturday)
- 6k Fogs (installing Saturday)
- 20mm front spacers (installing Saturday)
- Ceramic Pads F&R

Also have an MTX 9500, JL 1000.1, and am ordering an N6 after the holidays to cover audio.

Needless to say I'm happy to be back in one.
My old X5:


My 750:




My X the day I bought it (installing the missing rear arches this weekend too :