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Old 27th June 2006, 23:23   #1
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I hate Rain

Well, the car arrived sat am and is now ready for pick-up. my salesperson is telling me how great the car looks sitting on the showroom floor. locked of course. tempting. unfortunately i'm an hour away and the rain has been horrible. am i crazy? i don't want to drive a perfect new and clean car into a storm. looks like there will a break in the weather thurs pm or friday. not as bad a paulager's wait but it still stinks.

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Old 27th June 2006, 23:43   #2
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You can make it shiny again fairly easily but what you can't do is polish out any major dents you incur by the tyres letting go - haing recently gone from a well run-in car to a brand new one it surprised me how often the tyres let go in th first few hundred miles.

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Old 28th June 2006, 00:38   #3
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Don't blame you. I have 3,000 miles on the car and I've only been caught in the rain once. Drives me crazy to see it dirty.
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Old 28th June 2006, 01:15   #4
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Well, being you are in PA, you're bound be hit rain one of these days. While I agree and I hate it when it rains while I'm driving my BEAST but I live in VA so its impossible to avoid being that the M6 is my daily driver.
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Old 28th June 2006, 01:47   #5
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I agree, it will see rain. my m5 looks great in snow tires, but not on the first minute. thurs looks good.

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Old 28th June 2006, 04:03   #6
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Drive it in the rain if you have to. More reason for you to give it a good detail when you get home. Congrats!!!
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Yep as soon as you get it home and detail it, it will surely rain the minute you take it out. So bite that bullet and get it to your garage. Or you can let it remain a fingerprint magnet in the show room.
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Oh man i feel your pain... I flew out of NoVA yesterday to pick up my M in indiana and drove it all the way back and hit that dam crappy rain that the east coast has been having... Man I am talking about monsoon type nonsense... it was heart breaking... but I took off from work today and gave her a little detail...
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