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Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:06 am

Chuck Branscomb wrote:

Ha, my better half won't have a car without a manual if she can help it.

We just bought a new (2013) Fusion Titanium Ecoboost. The wife decided that since she is now driving about 400 miles per week, she wanted an autotragic. I wanted a manual, but the boss gets what she wants, especially since she's making the payments!

Chris Halweg · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:20 am

Chuck Branscomb wrote:

Chris Halweg wrote:

The unicorns are great until the your better half has to drive it and can't stand a manual.

Ha, my better half won't have a car without a manual if she can help it. We had to order her E90 ages ago to get the 6MT.

Donnie, the car looks fantastic! Have you done the 3-stage manifold and tune yet?

Excellant! I tried to convert my wife and it was a failure. I guess I should have known better.

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:49 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

For you e9x owners, I do recommend this gauge. Nice having the temp readout and a built in code reader.

BMW- when you need a code reader all-the-time.

i shouldn't say anything. It has been 3-4.months since I've needed my code scanner. The HVAC panel did die over the weekend though. The german quality can't be beat!

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 1:30 pm

Michael Westerfield wrote:

BMW- when you need a code reader all-the-time.

That should be their new tag line! Unless you are Chuck who has the only BMW that never breaks.

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:14 pm

Chuck Branscomb wrote:

Donnie, the car looks fantastic! Have you done the 3-stage manifold and tune yet?

No, but I will. Hopefully this calendar year, anyway.

--Donnie

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:16 pm

My wife can drive a stick quite well, but I'm perfectly fine that she wants an automatic as her daily. I'm not sold on this "every car needs to be a manual" thing, even though I do wish there were MORE options, at least.

And it's not a big deal, but just a note to the mods...please change the name of this forum to "Swap & Sell & Tease." KTHXBYE. :lol:

--Donnie

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:36 pm

Donnie Barnes wrote:

please change the name of this forum to "Swap & Sell & Tease." KTHXBYE. :lol:

This is my roughly once a year or so reminder to everyone that the Swap and Sell posts are publicly viewable. You don't have to be a member, or logged in to see these posts.

I almost think every swap and sell post should have a corresponding private thread for all of the other stuff that goes along with it that rarely has anything to do with potential swap or sell!

Richard

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:41 pm

Richard Casto wrote:

Donnie Barnes wrote:

please change the name of this forum to "Swap & Sell & Tease." KTHXBYE. :lol:

This is my roughly once a year or so reminder to everyone that the Swap and Sell posts are publicly viewable. You don't have to be a member, or logged in to see these posts.

I almost think every swap and sell post should have a corresponding private thread for all of the other stuff that goes along with it that rarely has anything to do with potential swap or sell!

Richard

I got Donnie w/ my post of the gauge vent. Pulled my sale due to wife wanting bimmer.... sorry....

Chris Halweg · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:42 pm

Richard Casto wrote:

Donnie Barnes wrote:

please change the name of this forum to "Swap & Sell & Tease." KTHXBYE. :lol:

This is my roughly once a year or so reminder to everyone that the Swap and Sell posts are publicly viewable. You don't have to be a member, or logged in to see these posts.

I almost think every swap and sell post should have a corresponding private thread for all of the other stuff that goes along with it that rarely has anything to do with potential swap or sell!

Richard

I realize this, but is there a good reason for them being public? I can't imagine there have been many sales to non-club members on here.

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:46 pm

Honestly, any pricing I post on here is on the assumption that it's a club member. I usually discount stuff from what I'd list it on CL for.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:25 pm

Do crickets buy many car parts?

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:50 pm

Chris Halweg wrote:

Richard Casto wrote:

Donnie Barnes wrote:

please change the name of this forum to "Swap & Sell & Tease." KTHXBYE. :lol:

This is my roughly once a year or so reminder to everyone that the Swap and Sell posts are publicly viewable. You don't have to be a member, or logged in to see these posts.

I almost think every swap and sell post should have a corresponding private thread for all of the other stuff that goes along with it that rarely has anything to do with potential swap or sell!

Richard

I realize this, but is there a good reason for them being public? I can't imagine there have been many sales to non-club members on here.

Very fair question. I can't speak as to if having it open has helped club members sell to the general public. I personally have had more direct experience with non members (or previous, but not current members) wanting to post items for sale. Regarding why it is open.... Has always been that way. Sounds like a good topic to bring up for discussion (just not in this thread IMHO).

Richard

Chris Halweg · **Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:54 am

Because I am evil Rodney:
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/4977648101.html

Chuck Branscomb · **Posted:** Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:59 am

Back to the E91 wagons with 6MT for a moment. Unfortunately now EAG has entered into this scene and is sucking the market dry for late model (most likely 2010-2012) manual E91s. They operate very well from a seller's standpoint often offering close to your asking price and upon discussion about the car's history will bank wire funds to your account sometimes that same day and send a truck to pick it up within a few days (going by Ed Holloway's experience selling his E92 M3 a few years ago to them). Ed's car was on their site within days and asking $10k more. He hadn't had success with ads running for months at $3k more than they paid him (car was 2 years old and under warranty for 2 more years), but it sold off EAG's site within a couple of weeks -- go figure. EAG doesn't haggle with pricing either. Sigh...

Hence they are putting huge upward pricing pressure on these unicorns and, as always, intend to corner the market on them. Screw that...done looking at these late model cars as a replacement for my wife's daily driver now and instead will hunt for a higher mileage, low-priced beater to replace our ancient Volvo beater. If anyone is interested in an original owner, ~170k, 1996 850R wagon (somewhat of a unicorn in itself as very few were made), let me know.

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:42 pm

EAG has a reputation and people just go look there first and trust that what they buy will be good. So they are willing to pay more than they would from an individual. I'm sure EAG ships a lot of cars, too, and make that part pretty painless, whereas doing that in a purchase from an individual is MUCH more scary. If I send an individual money for a car, I want possession of the car. With a dealer I'm much less inclined to worry. So they've got that going for them, too.

And then they also *present* the cars much better than your average Joe does, too. Cars just look better the way they show them off and thus are easier to sell that way.

--Donnie

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