The Whistling Grocery Getter

[timmer]

A little 0-80 action filmed in the greenest part of Mexico you’ll ever see... Not bad except for my sunglasses flying off the console when I launched!

-Tim

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[YoungCR]

Fantastic.

[timmer]

Heavy D is loaded up for Labor Day weekend!

Love the looks driving through the campground... the redneck crowd is ready to raise a Budweiser to a 3/4 ton truck coming through, just to have their dreams crushed by a SAV from Deutschland (well, South Carolina)

Here’s to working for a living!  Happy Labor Day all!

-Tim

[B C]

Redneck crowd: “hey, he brought his whole house with him” 

It’s really unfortunate that diesel powered cars came to an abrupt end recently. A diesel awd 5 series or X5 really checks a lot of the boxes on my list

[YoungCR]

What's the towing capacity?

[timmer]

YoungCR said:

What's the towing capacity?

6,000 lbs, but I know others have pulled more.  Definitely not a power issue!

[Jdesign]

timmer said:

6,000 lbs, but I know others have pulled more.  Definitely not a power issue!

Damn thats pretty good. More than I would have expected.

[YoungCR]

Agreed. Keep I'm mind what the tires are rated for too though.

[YoungCR]

@timmer any long term updates?

[timmer]

YoungCR said:

@timmer any long term updates?

Wow, guess I gotta get on here more often!!

it’s been great! I still love driving it… I’m at 125,000 miles now, so I’ve put on 15k since it was deleted and tuned. 

It’s about time for some routine maintenance for the old M57… time to replace the valve cover gasket, vacuum lines, and replace the charge pipe.  No problems now, but known failure points. 
 

Fuel mileage and power remains great, but I’m starting to get the itch for more!  I’ve been eyeing up hybrid turbos from www.tunemyeuro.com, it’s crazy how much you can squeeze out of these engines!

I still giggle at the looks I get driving around, especially when I get into boost

-Tim