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08-11-2009, 03:10 PM
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In a moment of extreme empathy for the pain you've been enduring, your SA emails you a photo of your new X5! And by golly you get to check off those first two items on the list: its the right color and it has all four wheels.
Image warning for 5Bs (Black, Blacker, Blackest BMW Brigade) members. You may want to avert your eyes now.  The following image is of an un-modded X5 work truck (as opposed to a heavily modded X5 show truck) and it is not black  This diesel X5 work truck will spend at least the next 3-5 yrs hauling construction materials -- trailers full of framing lumber, cement blocks, mortar, concrete -- down a long dusty, crushed limestone driveway to our cabin (AKA the construction site). It will be a regular at the local quarry, loading up a couple of tons of gravel, road base, limestone, etc. in our 5x9' 5,000 lb capacity utility trailer. So it is equipped with... * the paint/interior least likely to show limestone dust in 10 seconds (Titanium Silver & Gray) * 18" wheels and tires w/ the most side wall to handle rough, rocky roads (e.g. our driveway) * and of course, the obligatory 6,000 lbs trailer hitch to haul stuff  It probably won't turn many heads on the highway, but I assure it will at the quarry  Funf Dreisig 
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08-11-2009, 03:19 PM
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Hey, I happen to love Titanium Silver (check my sig for my 330) and ordered it for my X5. Like you said, it looks good even when filthy and has just enough blue to look incredible when it's clean. So what if every other car is silver, it's not BMW TiAg!
 Looking good... How many minutes now? edit: OOPS - my sig is on Bimmerfest - same username...
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08-11-2009, 04:33 PM
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Thanks, rh71 and cmyX5go. I'm glad my X5 BTO anguish has made a few folks smile
Funf Dreisig
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08-11-2009, 09:43 PM
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F- Congrats! Your X5 is living like mine, actually quite useful! Looking forward to hear what you think of the diesel for hauling, etc! Nice ride!
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08-11-2009, 09:53 PM
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'08 X5 3.0si - Alpine White / Saddle Brown interior Specs: Sport Pkg, Premium Pkg, Tech Pkg, Comfort Access, Aero Kit, Style 433 staggered 20s on Conti DWS Mods: Carbon 35 tint, LED angel eyes, GP Thunder 7500k fogs, H&R 20mm/25mm spacers, clear reflectors, gunsmoke-tinted taillights Coded: Digital speedo, windows/sunroof/tailgate close via keyfob X5 pics at Flickr
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#6
08-13-2009, 09:42 AM
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The night before the delivery you assemble your 'delivery day kit'...
* a black leather/canvas briefs case, containing * a clipboard with your multi page delivery check list * a camera * a pair of bifocal safety glasses * a lab coat, with * a couple pair of white cloth gloves neatly tucked in the pockets and of course no delivery day kit would be complete without a dial caliper. Note the most important part of this high precision tool is the wooden case. Funf Dreisig
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08-13-2009, 09:46 AM
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You arrive promptly for your X5 35d's delivery and greet your SA in a cordial but business like manner. After a few pleasantries, you ask your SA if he/she would mind delaying the standard delivery procedure while you check out a few things.
Once agreed, you place your brief case in the cargo bay, extract the clipboard, and put on the safety glasses, lab coat and a pair of white gloves. After checking off the easiest items on your list, you proceed to meticulously caress, err fondle, err inspect your future X5s curvaceous, err, voluptuous err, sleek body for minor imperfections in the finish. At some point you pause, look concerned and after taking a few photographs, you make some notations on page 2 of your check list. You then open the wooden case, insert the metal ruler in your breast pocket and proceed to check the dial caliper's calibration. By now several of the other SAs have come out of their cubicles to the witness the spectacle of you checking the gaps between the body panels and noting their measurements to the hundredth inch. After reviewing your check list & notes, you grudgingly announce that the fit and finish seems to be within spec. But you still have a few questions and would appreciate your SA confirming the location of a few things under the hood: like the manual oil dipstick and the customer approved 'exhaust fluid' filling procedure. Having established that you are a bona fide wacko, who really did read the 2009 X5 Owner's Manual cover to cover, several times while waiting of your X5 to be built, you suggest that the standard delivery procedure could recommence. Everyone lets out a deep sigh of relief. And you proceed smugly suspecting that maybe, just maybe, you have given your SA a story to tell his/her grand kids someday Funf Dreisig Last edited by FunfDreisig; 08-13-2009 at 11:24 AM.
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