After more than 3,000 miles driving to Oklahoma and Kansas, including “close encounters” with Buffalo, my bug-rain-dirt coated car really needed a wash! It’s already quite hot to be washing my X3 so I visited nearby Classic Car Wash and purchased one of their higher price services – it began with a normal “spray and brushes” automatic car wash but then as many as five people descended on the car cleaning inside and out, very thoroughly! My X3 is now shiny and happy 🙂
Just like during last years trip reaching 25,000 miles, my car reached 30,000 miles somewhere in East Mississippi during our “Eclipse Trip” …
Last week Margaret noted a fresh black oily puddle on our garage floor (and it looks like there’s older dried stains too), looking under the car I could see a drip at the edge of a cover but no further clue to the cause …
I quickly took it to BMW and they identified that “the transfer case main bushing is leaking” at a nearly $2000 repair cost!
Since they don’t have the part in stock, I’m now driving a surprisingly small/cramped X2 – I’ve hit my head more than once getting out of the car so it’s not a future car for me even though it’s quite well equipped with a good-enough engine (of course not as potent as my X3 M40i!) …
Not sure how long I will have this car … hopefully it’s big enough to take our visitors and their luggage back to the airport!
UPDATE: I got my car back today (March 2nd) …
M&I / GBMINI 