Seriously, don't de-badge. Second, wonder what white plastic-dip emblems would look like? A can of spray and a little bit of manpower and you could find out. You don't like it? Peel it off.

 

Once a Masshole always a Masshole

I have a good relationship with my mechanic so I'm just gonna ask him what it takes to pass that day. I would go tow hook before anything on the bumper

 

Beautiful car, congrats. And it makes sense. Just like relationships. You just finished a long term relationship with a partner that was pretty attractive, reliable, and sensible. But something was missing. Now you meet someone that is stunningly attractive, but high maintenance, and expensive tastes. You now get a lot of compliments, second glances, and it is a lot of fun. Sadly, these relationships often don’t end well, and only after a lot of pain and expenses. And you then return to a more stable Acura-type relationship. We have all been there, at least once, so enjoy the ride as long as you can!

 

^^^ I disagree 100% with this. The car that got me on this site was a CL-S. That thing gave me more headaches between 4 failed transmissions and warping brake rotors in 2 years than my 650 has given me (0 problems) in 6 years. Ditto the 335xi 6 speed also in the driveway.

 

Then you have been luckier than most with love.

 

funny you mention that...
after sitting back and thinking about it...my old TL was going to take a lot of time and MONEY to make perfect.
Disappointing for a 13 year old car (at the time).

 

So true. I am just glad I kept my allegiance to sports team in my home state and didn't switch when I moved lol

This is another old thing Massachusetts I remember. I remember when inspection was every other year. Odd model years got an inspection in odd years and the same thing for even. At some point they switched it to every year.

 

Dont let Yum see this

 

As for the "relationship" advice. Sure I might have upgraded to a hot blonde with a gucci problem, but I for sure am not going back to my ex anytime soon

 

Same here.

 

You're fortunate-I have a hot blonde with a Hermes problem.

 

Congrats on the new car! V8s are getting more and more rare, especially in sultry 2-door form like with the 6-series. Bet it will sound fantastic with exhaust mods.

 

I've found no exhaust mods still sounds great!

 

It really is a nice looking car.

 

I tried buying a Meisterschaft exhaust off a member on Bimmerpost 2 months before even owning the car I was beat out by another member but I'm still on the lookout

 

Another option is just upgrading the downpipes. The original plan was to do this the same time as going St2 but the sound alone might get me to do it sooner

 

The full Meisterschaft might be a little over the top. Drone is one my biggest pet peeves. Cant stand it and from what I've heard from other members, there is some cabin drone with that exhaust. Honestly pretty much any muffler/cat back system will have some drone

The reason for trying to buy it was the deal was too good to pass up and the seller was local in MA

 

I'd start with downpipe since that's happening no matter what...plus easy to remove and ship to the new person you sell it to if it ain't your cup
of tea.

 

^ Agree

I got the car back yesterday from the shop after having it PPF, Coated, and Tint. This is the first time I've ever had any type of film protection or coating on my car. I'm really excited to see how it holds up over time. I also went back to the same location I took the photos with my iPhone to compare them against the new 50mm lens. They have not been in Lightroom yet, this is just the raw photo

I'm still working on different angles for the photos. I really have no idea what I'm doing lol but its all trial and error. I honestly dont even know what mode to use on the camera

 

Damn that's fucking beautiful!

 

I'm assuming you're happy with the 50 suggestion? Those shots are DOPE as fuck.
I don't like when things shift too far from fun and artsy to sciency...

what I suggest is stick to program mode "P"....
ISO as low as you can with the lighting present...100 if the sun is out and about...
the higher obviously better for low light but too high will get grainy or leave the shutter open too long and get blurry
then the F stop to as close to 1.8 as you can as often as you can.

That's what works for me anyway.

Car looks fantastic and the pictures are just as good.
Kick ass.

 

Thanks for the advice and I'm very happy with the 50

Can you explain this like I'm a 5yr old lol "then the F stop to as close to 1.8 as you can as often as you can"

 

sure thing, man...
the lens will usually limit what F you can use depending on what it's picking up in the depth of field...
so usually full sun with the car in the foreground and a nice background you can blur out I turn the knob to
F1.8 or as low (close) to that as you can get...sometimes it'll just max out at 2.4 or more...

Hope that makes sense.

ISO100 and F1.8 with good lighting will get you the best bokeh like the shots you did above. Excellent work.

Then if it's getting dark out...start going up to ISO400 or whatever until it takes a picture that's light enough to be usable
in Lightroom without too much (or any blurry)...even that can kinda be corrected with the sharpen function.

 

Perfect

On a side note I washed the car for the first time last night after getting the coating done. Holy moly is it cool to see the water beads just fly off. Using the air dryer makes it 10x easier

 

Added some new paddle shifters for no reason other than they look cool I never used them in the Type-S because the delay was brutal. The ZF8 in the 650 is 10000x better so we'll see

 

@Yumcha can you change the thread title to something simple when you get a chance

 

Done.

Does this work?

 

Perfect good sir

 

Was going to change the title to, "TomTom Brady is a Cheating Sucky Suck Thread" but I'm being lenient today.

 

Hahahahahaa I legit thought that exact same thing. Almost word for word

 

The other title I had in mind was "Joneill is LBGTQ+ for TomTomBrady and P.S. BMW Thread"...but, again, feeling lenient.

 

Congrats on the new ride. Looking good. A set of those HRE Chief has in silver on yours would look great.

 

Paddles look good & seem to match the pattern on the dash.
I'd thought about some for the C before it went away, just never got around to it.

Alternate thread title:

"Blinkers? We don't need no stinking blinkers: BMW 650xi Thread"

 

Family and friends all got jokes. " Are the blinkers optional" seems to be the go to lol

As for wheels. I want to have them soon but a lot are either on backorder or shipping is a month out


Option 1 (affordable)

Avant Garde M510 - Either 19" or 20"
pics: https://www.avantgardewheels.com/fea...an-coupe-m510/





Option 2 (Cant go wrong)

BBS CI-R - 20"
pics: https://www.6post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1782049




Option 3 (Devil on my shoulder saying do it)

Vorsteiner V-FF109 - 21"
pics: https://www.ebay.com/itm/293108365299 (scroll down to photo gallery in the link to see them on the blue m6)

 

I've never had aftermarket wheels on a car before. The roads around here are atrocious and I'm scared the bigger wheels I go the more trouble I'll be in. Especially at this price point

* These will only be on during the summer - plan on keeping the stock setup for the winter

 

Always for a set of BBS.

 

One vote for Vorsteiner...

 

I bent a rim on a highway to bridge seam with OEM's, they can't take the abuse. I've hit some holes since with the HRE's and am certain they would've trashed the OEM's but did zip to the HRE's. BMW provides nice looking wheels but they're somewhat fragile, had the same problem on my 530.

correction:

Of those shown, No, not 21's.

 

Found out I had a cracked wheel when I sold the Merc. OE 19s. Still held pressure & didn't affect trade value.
I don't recall ever hitting anything significant & was on it's 3rd set of tires.