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Old 12-28-2004, 02:44 PM   #1
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Yup, I'm back in the northeast, and it's winter.





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Old 12-28-2004, 02:52 PM   #2
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Old 12-28-2004, 03:10 PM   #3
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I love the glyphs that NJ is using on their tags now.

It was almost a year ago:
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Old 12-28-2004, 03:25 PM   #4
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My 330i looks just as bad after getting stuck in the blizzard for 2 hours on the way back from Montreal. It is supposed to hit 50F this weekend, so I'll wash it by hand then.
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Old 12-28-2004, 03:27 PM   #5
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Maybe it's just me, but I kind of like it when the car is real dirty like that. It looks like it's been somewhere, done something.
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Old 12-28-2004, 03:27 PM   #6
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I love the glyphs that NJ is using on their tags now.

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Salt accessorizes grey much better than blue.

You should see the funny glasses the cops wear to read the plate numbers. aranoid:
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Old 12-28-2004, 03:30 PM   #7
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My 330i looks just as bad after getting stuck in the blizzard for 2 hours on the way back from Montreal. It is supposed to hit 50F this weekend, so I'll wash it by hand then.
Yeah... still hasn't broken freezing here. So the salt will feast upon the car until this weekend.

Took 10.5 hours to get back from Maine... the blizzard conditions were a biatch in MA and CT.

I just hope there's none of that on the drive to MI for NAIAS. aranoid:
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Maybe it's just me, but I kind of like it when the car is real dirty like that. It looks like it's been somewhere, done something.
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My 330i looks just as bad after getting stuck in the blizzard for 2 hours on the way back from Montreal. It is supposed to hit 50F this weekend, so I'll wash it by hand then.
Yeah... still hasn't broken freezing here. So the salt will feast upon the car until this weekend.

Took 10.5 hours to get back from Maine... the blizzard conditions were a biatch in MA and CT.

I just hope there's none of that on the drive to MI for NAIAS. aranoid:
I drove from Baltimore to Minniapolis on Dec 30, 2000 in a rented Ford Ranger. It snowed pretty much the whole way. It was not a pleasant trip...especially after I ran out of washer fluid when getting into OH...and it wasn't until the fourth service area that I found more.
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Old 12-28-2004, 03:41 PM   #10
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I drove from Baltimore to Minniapolis on Dec 30, 2000 in a rented Ford Ranger. It snowed pretty much the whole way. It was not a pleasant trip...especially after I ran out of washer fluid when getting into OH...and it wasn't until the fourth service area that I found more.
Bleech. We used up the entire reservoir full of fluid on the trip back... I was happy to have the extra large (1 gallon +) CWP reservoir. This trip was the first one where I actually found the headlamp washers helpful.
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