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      07-04-2006, 10:30 PM   #1
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Who says the E90 has no carrying capacity?

My weekend trip to Lowes for 1x4x10 foot planks of lumber. It took me two trips, but I ended up transporting 20 beams in all. People looked at me like I was out of my mind. =)
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LoL, I was thinking to myself how I was going to transport a shovel and a hoe earlier today.. thanks for the idea.
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reminds me of the jetta wood photo LOL
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Thats great... I have had to transport quite a few things in my E90 as well... Unfortunately, Home Depot knows me all to well...
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reminds me of the jetta wood photo LOL
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Reminds me of a car outside Dublin, Ireland in 1986...

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[QUOTE=E90Newbie]My weekend trip to Lowes for 1x4x10 foot planks of lumber. It took me two trips, but I ended up transporting 20 beams in all. People looked at me like I was out of my mind. =)

Wow that is something new! I guess thats what you do when you don't have an SUV!
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The materials were loaded at Home Depot. The Home Depot store manager >made the customer sign a waiver before loading. Both back tires are >trashed. The back shocks were driven up through the floorboard. On the roof are many 2X4s, 4X4s and OSL sheets of lumber. The load isn't all that meets the eye either.

In the back seat were ten 80-pound bags of concrete! They estimated the load weight at 3000lbs.

The car is a VW Jetta with Florida plates and the guy said he was headed for Annapolis!

JUST UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

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The materials were loaded at Home Depot. The Home Depot store manager >made the customer sign a waiver before loading. Both back tires are >trashed. The back shocks were driven up through the floorboard. On the roof are many 2X4s, 4X4s and OSL sheets of lumber. The load isn't all that meets the eye either.

In the back seat were ten 80-pound bags of concrete! They estimated the load weight at 3000lbs.

The car is a VW Jetta with Florida plates and the guy said he was headed for Annapolis!

JUST UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

Looks like it was held on with baling twine. Besides the amazing fact it is even in motion I doubt he even made it out of the parking lot before one of those strings let loose. The first cop who saw it would pull him over. The man's a menace to all sensible drivers.

Even with the waiver, the store manager should never have allowed this. I'm sure a good lawyer (oxymoron) would even be able to prove negligence with the store manager in the event an innocent person were injured.
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LOL omg that's freaking crazy!!! Why couldnt he just go to Annapolis AND THEN buy the stuff?? do they not have a Home DEpot there or wat?
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The last time I needed to carry a lot of stuff from Home Depot, I rented one of thier pickup trucks. I just left my car in the parking lot, drove the stuff home and brought the truck back afterwards to pick up my car. The total cost was about $30.

Its just not worth the headache of loading up a car with stuff it was never intended to carry. Though I must admit, the trunk is much larger than you would expect.

On the subject of trunk space, the 4th generation VW Jetta has an ENORMOUS trunk considering the overall size of that car. I could fit more in that trunk than I can in my E90 or even my wife's Volvo S60.
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Im redoing the backyard, and will probably do the rental truck from home depot...

Im not carrying bricks, stone, potting soil, and plants in my E90
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LOL what i do is go to take my car to BMW for service then get an X3 as a loaner car and do all my stuff in that. I plan it out when i need a bigger car
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The last time I needed to carry a lot of stuff from Home Depot, I rented one of thier pickup trucks. I just left my car in the parking lot, drove the stuff home and brought the truck back afterwards to pick up my car. The total cost was about $30.

Its just not worth the headache of loading up a car with stuff it was never intended to carry. Though I must admit, the trunk is much larger than you would expect.

On the subject of trunk space, the 4th generation VW Jetta has an ENORMOUS trunk considering the overall size of that car. I could fit more in that trunk than I can in my E90 or even my wife's Volvo S60.
my jetta's truck was really big that was the was only good thing
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the other day i had to transport some very large pictures i had framed, lucky i have a convertible, so it made it easy... they wouldn't have fitted otherwise!
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