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Countdown to e90 335i PCD - Oct 16
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10-08-2006, 07:11 PM | #1 |
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Countdown to e90 335i PCD - Oct 16
One more week ... the anticipation is killing me! I ordered my car in August, and I've been doing ok. Reading posts and looking at pictures here every night helps a lot. But now I'm in the home stretch, and I am READY.
The Performance Center should be fun. I've never driven on a track before. In fact, I'll have a bunch of "firsts" when I pickup my car. I've: - Never seen a real e90 335i before (only pictures) - Never seen an Arctic Metallic BMW before (only pictures) - Never driven a 335i (not even an e92) - Never been in a car with iDrive - Never spent any significant time in any BMW (I test drove a 550i and a 330i briefly before ordering, but that's it) We're heading up to Greenville from Atlanta Sunday. BMW is putting us up at the Marriott downtown, as per protocol. Plan to spend the day enjoying the park / restaurants / etc in Greenville, which is a great place to visit by the way. After pickup, we plan to take the scenic route home, which will give us probably 150 miles on the car. Tuesday I'm taking the day off work to play with the car. Kiddies will be in school, so I won't be able to go far, but I will get to go out and ride around with my wife. Afterwards, I plan to spend most of the afternoon / evening sitting in the car tinkering with iDrive and playing with the stereo. Then 3 days at work and a plan to head to the mountains the following weekend. I've got some great routes in mind for that! Anyway, just thought I'd share. Very excited!
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10-08-2006, 07:18 PM | #2 |
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The wait is killing me too
Mine is going to be produced this week, so I'll be collecting it in about 3 weeks from today. You made a great choice. At my dealership I saw 2 335i E90 saloons being delivered. From a distance you can't tell, but underneath: Great performer. My current 330i still is a great car too. Congrats. I cannot sleep. Maybe because of the Chinese food we had tonight...It's 2:24 AM here. GF is sleeping and I don't want to wake her |
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10-09-2006, 11:51 AM | #6 | |
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I am couple of days after you but on ED! I am with you on most of the facts that you have indicated at the time I've ordered the car with an exception of i-drive. I have messed around with it in my cousins 745LI. To this day I have not driven a E90 or a E92 (the closest thing I've driven is a 2004 330XI). My GF and I rushed to our local dealer when they got 3 335 coupes and luckly they had one in space gray for us to take a look at but it had the red interior..... Hopefully, in 10 days I will be in Munich sitting in my car.... I am pretty much dropping her off the same day to be shipped back to US.... So I still will have up to 8 weeks before she is in my garage....
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10-15-2006, 12:58 PM | #9 |
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Glad to hear you are doing PCD. I had a great time back in August picking up my 330i. You can read my write up on bimmerfest http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=162751
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I'm actually at the Marriott in Greer right now. Doing PCD tomorrow. They're supposed to come pick up my wife and me at 7:45a. I SAW MY CAR ALREADY! I took my kids to a playground in Greer, which is conveniently down the road a bit past the performance center. I really didn't expect to see my car there, but there were a ton of bimmers. You can see the Performance Center track from the road, so I pulled in for a better look and, surprisingly, the gates were open at about 5pm Sunday. There was nobody around, so I drove around and looked at all the cars. Among the highlights were an Arctic Metallic 330i, apparently for track driving, a totally mangled 335i coupe (ouch!), a fancy two-door sports coupe that I am not familiar with, and, in the back, 7 more Arctic Metallic 330i's. I took pictures of everything, but it turns out that I left my computer cable at home, so I can't upload tonight. Sorry! Anyway, after leaving, I glanced at the front of the building and saw another Arctic Metallic 3 series behind the glass. I knew it had to be mine, so I turned around and went back. Sure enough, it was my 335i sedan. IT LOOKS GOOOOOD! I was able to walk right up to the glass and see the car about 2 feet away on the other side. All my manuals were laid out neatly on the table next to it, as well as MY TWO CA KEYS! My wife took a couple shots of my with my face up against the glass (ha!), then I took a bunch of pictures of the car through the glass. Then somebody knocked on the glass from the inside. It was a security guard. She asked me if I was picking up, and I told her "tomorrow". She said that people weren't supposed to take pictures, but she smiled and said "Congratulations" and left. Guess they probably were watching us on security cameras the whole time! Anyway, sorry I don't have any pictures yet. I took a bunch, but I can't upload yet. Headed down for dinner. I'll probably log back on later to post more. After all, I doubt I'll be doing much sleeping tonight!
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