First World Problem...

Today's the first day in months I'm pulling the BMW out of the garage. I had to go out in the Pathfinder to scout a safe puddle and pothole free route to drive it.

A lot of the roads in my area are way too bad to drive down with the Audis, even the ones with 50-55 series tires. They're even a bit worrisome in the Tahoe.
 
Today's the first day in months I'm pulling the BMW out of the garage. I had to go out in the Pathfinder to scout a safe puddle and pothole free route to drive it.

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My buddies wife lost the "guess how deep" the pothole is game the other night:

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$5K worth of damage. Destroyed the whole strut, housing and obviously the tire.

Swanic beware - this happened a 1/2 mile north of Otto's on 202.
 
My buddies wife lost the "guess how deep" the pothole is game the other night:

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$5K worth of damage. Destroyed the whole strut, housing and obviously the tire.

Swanic beware - this happened a 1/2 mile north of Otto's on 202.

My kid did the same thing a few years ago on 81

funny thing about your pic is the wheel looks ok
 
Agreed. With an impact great enough to rip open a tire you'd think the rim would look a lot worse.
 
So on the way back from FL I stopped at Baltimore, near the Inner Harbor. Let me tell you, the government must have squashed a war or an aerial bombardment we had down there, because the roads in Baltimore had what appear to be bomb damage. By far worse than Philly.

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But your wheels returned home unscathed?

Yup.

Went to the beach at Hutchinson Island on Mon. All of a sudden it started raining and there was a mass exodus to leave. Turned on my car and the CEL came on. Car ran fine.

Bad news. Of course I travel with an OBD2 code scanner. But, it was raining hard, nowhere to pull over, and I was stuck in traffic...

Drove about 20 miles with CEL light on. Whole time I was thinking of all the bad things it could be... VANOS failure, ECM internal fault, multiple misfire codes, etc... Contemplating trying to find a BMW dealer to buy parts that prolly wouldn't be in stock anyway; than laying in the middle of a highway somewhere trying to fix something using pliers in the rain....

When I finally was able to pull over and scan it, I got a DT ML voltage high code, which on BMW means the fuel system has failed it's self pressure test (evaporative emission control).

The gas cap was loose.
 
Bought a scratch off lottery ticket. Having difficulty deciding to use a quarter or a dime to reveal my winnings. Why do I always have to make the hard decisions?
 
Too cold to detail today. Cleared the time sent wife shopping and it snowed (flurries) so I didn't get to do it.

Now I gotta re book the time and send her shopping again. :(

She did however not get ME anything.
 
Too cold to detail today. Cleared the time sent wife shopping and it snowed (flurries) so I didn't get to do it.

Now I gotta re book the time and send her shopping again. :(

She did however not get ME anything.

Peace and quiet ?
 
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