That license plate ............... 16 OSU ! Flog the plate for a fortune, ditch
the X3, buy an X7, invest the surplus in your pension plan and then retire :-)
Did the X1 die after hitting a puddle only ankle deep as seen in the Father's
Day card? Son one must have been wearing rubber boots in anticipation of a
photo op :-)
Whoopi for the diesel. Just had our late model diesel VW fixed re its cheating
emissions software. Highway mileage is now a miserable 55mpg :-(
jh
On 06/17/18 09:05 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I’ve been a little preoccupied over the last two weeks: I drove into too deep
> a puddle on 1 June and the engine stopped. It hasn’t started since, but I
> hoped that a good garage might find the fault and bring my lovely BMW X1 back
> to me.
>
> It hasn’t. I got a call from the insurance company last week to tell me that
> the car was beyond economic repair.
>
> It’s not the cylinders, it seems: the engine will turn over so there has been
> no water to bend a conrod. But the OBD is dead and the garage (and the
> insurance company’s engineer) reckon that the electrics have been badly
> affected and that there is no knowing how much it will take to get the car on
> the road and reliable again. I’ve talked to a few people and it’s not
> uncommon for too much water to kill a car, it seems, what with all the
> microprocessors and sensitive electronics.
>
> So I feel a little daft, but I’ve managed to find myself a replacement, a BMW
> X3 that’s just over 2 years old and not a stupid amount of money. This
> prompted my younger son to accuse me of having engineered the accident so
> that I could acquire a new car (he was in the car at the time, so he knows
> what happened). And he sent me a Father’s Day card with the conspiracy
> sub-text:
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22875
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22875>
>
> But I am consoled by my replacement car, although I’m back to a diesel engine:
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22878
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22878>
>
> It isn’t ready for me yet, but I’ll be driving it (very carefully) back from
> the dealer on Thursday.
>
> Chris
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