Is there any hope in this "spec me"?
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Maybe a punch in the **** while we're at it, just to assert one's masculinity?
Trading it in.
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I suspect though this is as much about the transmission as it is about the engine. There is now a 530i Auto parked on the driveway very similar to my manual and the way both cars drive is quite different - but the engine is the same. The difference is the transmission, the auto is more relaxing and wafty..
Your best bet is to buy a set of used headlights from a pre LCI car equipped with Xenons and then swap these with the ones you have. You may need to check but I'm pretty sure they should plug into the same wiring harness. People will bleat about self levelling but you can make your own call on that
I don't believe in gender normative values ingrained by the patriarchy so no.
Seems like a strange thing to do when presumably you'll be moving to the US within what, a year at most at which point insread of messing around with silly diesels you can have a proper refined drive of a big V8 mated to an autobox and waft around to your hearts content. 
Seems like a strange thing to do when presumably you'll be moving to the US within what, a year at most at which point insread of messing around with silly diesels you can have a proper refined drive of a big V8 mated to an autobox and waft around to your hearts content.
I wish! It'll be a couple of years before that happens. I've already got my F150 specced
...if you want to waft in comfort and refinement ...why would you buy a truck!
Have you ever been in one? ...because they drive like ...well like a truck, they are not particularly refined, the steering is shockingly bad, the quality of the interior is poor and the rear is light and frisky unless you put something heavy on the flatbed. If you understand their shortcomings and just want a big V8 truck ...like I do, then fine, but if you think it's going to be a refined waft with a high field of view, think again ...you'll need a decent SUV for that not a truck.
Have you ever been in one? ...because they drive like ...well like a truck, they are not particularly refined, the steering is shockingly bad, the quality of the interior is poor and the rear is light and frisky unless you put something heavy on the flatbed. If you understand their shortcomings and just want a big V8 truck ...like I do, then fine, but if you think it's going to be a refined waft with a high field of view, think again ...you'll need a decent SUV for that not a truck.
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I'd love to be over there right now but a one trick pony like me hasn't much chance of employment over there right now!Or an Escalade EXT
Fair enough then, surprised it's so long but maybe it's more that we didn't hang about
You're preaching to the choir. My requirements will change once over there.
I think this thread has run it's course. Thanks for the input everyone.
Which is a fair point but take it from me - there is no 'ideal' time to uproot and change countries, any way you work it, it's going to cost a bunch of money and unless you get lucky, you're going to take a few steps backwards career-wise. But also there are plenty of jobs still around if you are prepared to be open-minded and do something new - I only say this as we had planned financially for me to move about 6 months later than I did but our visa process was very quick (6 months start to finish, we planned on a year) - and despite us being worse off financially I wouldn't swap being over here 6 months earlier for anything - once your visa is approved it becomes very difficult to justify staying apart.
Put it this way, after 7 years working in a niche legal consulting field, I moved to the US and have worked in the State Parks for 9 months and the past year have worked in a medical office doing electrodiagnostic studies, none of which use my work experience in any way whatsoever
Next year though I'll probably go to grad school and get a qualification which lets me use my prior experience more though.Lovely, just checking
...a lot of people are quite miss-informed about what these trucks are actually like, a lot of people I talk to here in the UK who have no experience of them seem to think they are either super fast hot-rods or refined cruisers ...because they have a V8 ....clearly they haven't heard the exhausts on most of these things. Of course you can make them pretty damn fast if you want, does require some effort though unless you buy one of the already fast models like the RAM SRT10 ....but they are much more costly and less practical usually (.i.e. very poor on anything but tarmac and much lower).I'm sorry I can't help you with the thread request though, I'd say the BMW with cloth and pro NAV is one of the better bets, you could also check out some Volvo's ...you find these with cloth more often than BMW's and they can tick all your boxes. Also the X350 XJ was never made without leather to the very best of my knowledge and if you do find one, it was probably a special order or something like that.