You don't know how lucky you are to be able to wash your X. Nice ride

Thanks - what is the situation in Korea (South I assume) with washing cars?

__________________
2008 ML320 CDI | Iridium Silver | Black ARTICO Leather | Premium Package (H/K Logic7, Parktronic, Rear Heated Seats, Rear Power Hatch, DVD Nav, 10-way Front Seats w/ Memory) | Backup Camera | Aluminum Running Boards | 4500K MTEC Low-beam HID | 30% Metallic Tint | Boomerang2 Recovery System | Weathertech Front Floorliners | Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V1 Winter Tires

Where in downtown did you get it washed? Did you go to the new touchless place near Davenport RD?

__________________

Dinan S1 pkg / 22" Iforged Swift - Toyo 295F*315R / Eisenmann Race - OEM tips / H & R 15mm front
30mm rear spacers / Euro-spec headlights / CF M Competition steering wheel / Full CF interior /
6000K D2S / HID fogs / AiBrights V3 / Interior Xenon / LED sidemarkers / Matte black grille & hood vents

nice, mine is coated in about 4.5" of salt

__________________

An unwavering defender of those I see worth protecting.

"promote the general welfare, not provide the general welfare"

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

South luckily. If I was in the north, the world would be in a big pile of sh!t. Well my situation here is that I had to migrate here temporarily without my X And I sure miss spending 2-3 hours cleaning and babying my X

what's all that white stuff? come to think of it, i did see it, a whole ton of it, a few years back when i visited toronto and ottawa for christmas. got down to -45 C on that trip. i don't what the hell i was thinking, going up there. the canadians got a good laugh out of it, though.

waiter - where are you from?
me - florida
waiter - what the hell are you doing here?
me - came to see snow
all in establishment - simultaneous laughter

Yeah what were you thinking? :p

Actually toronto is not so bad but ottawa is one of the coldest place on earth.

-45C

__________________

Dinan S1 pkg / 22" Iforged Swift - Toyo 295F*315R / Eisenmann Race - OEM tips / H & R 15mm front
30mm rear spacers / Euro-spec headlights / CF M Competition steering wheel / Full CF interior /
6000K D2S / HID fogs / AiBrights V3 / Interior Xenon / LED sidemarkers / Matte black grille & hood vents

Yep, Ottawa "enjoys" the coldest average winter temperatures. There is a crossing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, however, which year after year, holds the trophy for the coldest windchill factor.

Speaking of cold, that reminds of how this late January, up in Barrie it was -27*C. With the windchill it was past -40*C. This was at Horseshoe Valley. I was staying for 2 days, and the X had to be parked outside. Nonetheless, after staying in -27*C air for hours, she fired up on the first try.

But man, the pixels in the radio display had an LCD-like ghosting effect when they needed to change because of the cold weather. Oh, and the sound system had no bass until 20 minutes into the drive.

LOL and did I mention that one STUPID day in December when I was driving the X in -15*C with SUMMER WASHER LIQUID? LOL the stuff froze in the washer lines. I thought I'd surely busted the pump, but to my surprise, after pouring hot water in the tank, all thawed out nicely.

__________________
2008 ML320 CDI | Iridium Silver | Black ARTICO Leather | Premium Package (H/K Logic7, Parktronic, Rear Heated Seats, Rear Power Hatch, DVD Nav, 10-way Front Seats w/ Memory) | Backup Camera | Aluminum Running Boards | 4500K MTEC Low-beam HID | 30% Metallic Tint | Boomerang2 Recovery System | Weathertech Front Floorliners | Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V1 Winter Tires

-45 - Centigrade and Fahrenhiet cross at -40 - a little factoid I learned on that trip. At that temperature, when I walked outside, it felt like someone hooked a vacuum cleaner over my nose and mouth and sucked all the air out of me.

Actually, worse than the cold was the thing that I really don't know how you northern guys deal with - like 6 hours of daylight. That was the most depressing thing about it that I could see.

Bav - sorry for the thread hijack - the car looks great, especially for having that much snow piled around it. I understand now why people talk about garaging their cars all winter. I can't imagine having all that salt, dirt, and assorted winter nasties stuck to my car for months on end. Yikes.