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Yep. Quite quiet. The radio can easily overtake it. Yet, when the radio is off, it can make one mental.

+1 on the HVAC clicking noise. Turning it off definitely stops it. Yet, it is always clicking when on. 5V BW w/9,800 miles. Please let us know what you find out!

Here are some photos of the BW in the Renaissance Center during the 2024 Indy Race. Maybe it says #307? Bummer that it is blurry, was holding the phone in the air trying to see if it was #1.

My son laser-etched a Yeti for me...

To your point, it may not have failed due to the winter-spring cycle. Yet, it was not an alignment issue. Please let me explain... The replacements had over 10k when I sold the car, and they were perfect. I am confident that they peeled apart in that one trip because I had just pre-inspected...

Example of a failed tire... Drove a Mini as a spare run-around through the winter with summer-only's on it. All was fine until the first highway trip in the spring. The tire literally wore out in 100 miles. The photo may look like an alignment issue, yet it was not (I verified it and had the...

I like talking about cars. And retirement. My 5BW was bought to be a daily. Then, I started liking it too much and found the excuse of no all-season tires. Now I bought a beater RAM for inclement weather, making the 5BW a great second car. Actually third since the spouse's X3 is daily. As...

If she wants to drive, ~$3,500.

Sign her up! She'll earn respect for the 5BW (over that x3m)! Seriously, she ended up loving the class. Her second place in the autocross solidified "happy wife, happy life". Otherwise, there were a number of spouses that were there, yet didn't attend. All seemed to have enjoyed themselves...

Please don't shoot the messenger... COOPER ZEON RS3-G1

Last stop of the Hot Rod Power Tour. Great to meet a few other BW folks along the way.

To opt out (suppress) on LexisNexis, I went here: optout.lexisnexis.com To be honest, the call to 888-497-011 and reasons of: "I didn't opt in" and "I wasn't driving" seemed to be what got the records corrected. Specific to the "I wasn't driving", there is a fundamental flaw in their data...

2022 #86-118 R.I.P 😥

Received the response from LexisNexis... They removed all of the telematics data! The reason listed was "...data being reported was unverifiable". A link and password was included for a new report. On there, section 10 telematics was completely empty (yahoo!).