Well, I will have one soon.
It’s going to be ordered, and delivered in the next week, or so. Our BMW has been sitting dead in its garage space for 3 years now, and I’m going to get it going again ASAP.
It’s my favorite of the 2 cars we bought when we were going to move here. In fact, we bought it outside of Chicago, and Ivan pulled it behind the huge U-Haul we used to move our stuff down here. I’ll try to find a photo of that for you. It cost us almost nothing as we traded one of our new Toyota’s that we had just bought, but couldn’t bring down here, for it with a minimal amount of money as the difference. It was about $1000 USD.
We only drove it to, and from, Los Altos as it is an amazingly comfortable ride, so it doesn’t have much mileage on it. It’s a 2011 x5 35i Drive, 6 cylinders, and it’s a joy to drive. At least that’s what I remember. We bought a 2009 Mercedes 280C sport from one of Ivan’s cousins shortly after moving here, and drove that in town. The BMW is a hog. It didn’t look nearly so big in our driveway in Iowa, but was huge when we got it down here, and had to drive it into a garage. Yikes. 😳
So, along with the battery, I have to put some gasoline in it, have the fluid levels checked, have it inspected, get insurance on it, and get it washed. I can’t do any of that until I get it far enough away from the garage wall to open the rear door because that is where the battery lives, in what would be the trunk.
Fear not. I’ve watched, and saved a few YT videos on what I need to have in order to move the vehicle with a dead battery. In fact, Ivan bought the handle thingy that we need before he died, and now I know how to use it. In fact, I’m going to go down to the garage in the morning to do the very thing; move the car away from the wall so it will be ready for it’s new battery next week.
Until I get all of that done, stay happy, and healthy in the Lord.