So you're finally taking delivery of your BTO X5...

[Meiac09]

Originally Posted by rh71

I hope you do continue your blurbs after you take delivery.

OT, but you aren't in Maine, are you? I saw an E70 AW 3.0si with 214's AND aero kit with NY tags. Figured it might be a small world...

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!

[rh71]

Originally Posted by Meiac09

OT, but you aren't in Maine, are you? I saw an E70 AW 3.0si with 214's AND aero kit with NY tags. Figured it might be a small world...

no that wasn't me. Surprisingly all this time I've only come across one other AW w/ aero.. but it had 212 19s. Then again I don't get out much except for weekends and for 5 minutes on weekdays.

[eyeguy]

Originally Posted by FunfDreisig

So it's 17 hrs and 4 min* before you take delivery. You've searched the net high and low (as in brow) and still can't find the one unique BMW accessory that you need to make it perfect -- a custom license plate holder reading...

"My other diesel is a Kubota"

Funf Dreisig

See I didn't forget eyeguy

Almost 11 p.m. now - you should be trying to get some sleep. TICK TOCK, almost time...

[FunfDreisig]

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

[FunfDreisig]

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

[X-cellent]

Oh to have been there and seen their faces!