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I am not as ambitious as my friend Joe so I went to the hand car wash , dryed if off myself and did the windows/Interior. Looks marvelous. I then took my dog to the park in his new favorite car.............. twice
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Drove two hours through North Mississippi. Then washed the bugs and pollen off and got it looking fresh for the week ahead.
I forget how fast that car is and how easy it is to drive fast. Then I get it on an open road and get impressed all over again. 80 mph in that car feels like cruising at 60. It doesn't take much to look down and realize your knocking on 100.
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Washed it, Clayed it and waxed it.
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It's unreal how natural that kind of speed feels in these cars. Like it's nothing. 80-95 mph just feels like run of the mill cruising speed.
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She then goes on to tell me she likes this car so much better than the Maserati. Me too.
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Just tested 0-60 and 1/4 mile times to see what all the hype was all about Properly broken in, 1375 miles on it.
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The crazy thing is that I had to lift at the end of the quarter-mile. I was afraid of running out of room. My mile per hour is only 115, it should be around 120. This is the first time I did an 11 second quarter mile in a car while having massage seats going…mind blowing
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Not necessarily to the G30 directly… but I replaced my garage overhead lights with 1100 lumen 5000k lights. I can finally see the color of my DGM 540! So much more satisfying.
The lights I had were 800 lumen and only one was 5000k (above my wife's GX 460). The other (above the g30) was only 2700k. The yellowish light did the car no favors. I'm OCD as hell about some things. Most probably wouldn't think about it. But if you want to enjoy the full effect of your beautiful g30 paint color, I highly recommend lighting your garage accordingly!
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I have four set of the old school fluorescent tubes that do "ok". I also had a traditional bulb socket on the ceiling that I just used for one of these. Makes a big difference. LED Garage Light, Truly 100W LED... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T5YNFT9...p_mob_ap_share
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I used two 5000k LED flood lights for now. They're actually working very well for the space.
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Can't say I did a ton of homework. It was like $23 bucks One-Day Prime and I figured I'd just free return it if it was junk. Does the job, but it won't light up Fenway
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Actually, BMW does lie but in the other direction. It sandbags its HP numbers. Most cars lose about 15% of their HP between the crank and the wheels. BMWs usually test at about their rated numbers when dynoed at the wheels.
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