My 4500 Mile European Delivery Journal- F80 BSM M3

[VMRWheels]

Awesome pics! Looks like an amazing trip! Congrats on the purchase

[DocWeatherington]

Winning, what dates where your there? 8/15? An I know what you mean about the drive after a few days..it gets tiring I only covered 1500 miles, so I can only think what 4500 felt like..an agree not an easy car to do a u turn in... Have you figured out the ship yet? Little lady gray hair at Login Out?

[DocWeatherington]

An you get any damage to the car? Did you happen to drive any of the Passes? While in Switzerland near lake Como?

[///M Dream]

Thanks guys

Originally Posted by Croatian test driver

Nice! Finally someone visited beautiful Croatia while doing ED.

Yeah hadn't seen too many people visit Croatia, truly beautiful place i plan on going back again one day!

Originally Posted by mso4

Thank you for this amazing post!! I'm thinking about doing this next summer and you just got me really excited. I've only been to London, Paris, and Amsterdam. One of my worse fear is going to countries where they don't speak English. I would love to visit at least Germany and Italy. Will definitely look you up when I'm close to traveling.

As long as your in the city almost everywhere they will speak english. Especially in Germany almost everyone there will speak english. If not you just work your way around it. But sure thing shoot me a PM when you plan on going would be more than happy to offer suggestions.

Originally Posted by DocWeatherington

Winning, what dates where your there? 8/15? An I know what you mean about the drive after a few days..it gets tiring I only covered 1500 miles, so I can only think what 4500 felt like..an agree not an easy car to do a u turn in... Have you figured out the ship yet? Little lady gray hair at Login Out?

Was there from July 15 to August 13. Unfortutantely no clue as to what ship it will be on haven't received a email from Login/out. And yep thats the one

Originally Posted by DocWeatherington

An you get any damage to the car? Did you happen to drive any of the Passes? While in Switzerland near lake Como?

Nope fortunately no damage to the vehicle at all during the entire trip. Drove through the alps and Switzerland but unfortunately not through the main epic ones many people go on. Was that or the Nurburgring as it was the second to last day of the trip.

[pr0gi]

Great writing! Thanks for the awesome journal I would like to ask you one thing. About the suspension. How was it? How did you feel driving in Romania? Since Bulgaria and Romania have some bad roads I've been thinking to order the car with 18 and adaptive suspension but not a big fan of the adaptive suspension. Is the standard suspension too firm and the more soft settings of the adaptive would be better for such roads
Thank you again for the time you've spend writing this amazing journal!

[DocWeatherington]

Originally Posted by ///M Dream

Thanks guys


Yeah hadn't seen too many people visit Croatia, truly beautiful place i plan on going back again one day!


As long as your in the city almost everywhere they will speak english. Especially in Germany almost everyone there will speak english. If not you just work your way around it. But sure thing shoot me a PM when you plan on going would be more than happy to offer suggestions.


Was there from July 15 to August 13. Unfortutantely no clue as to what ship it will be on haven't received a email from Login/out. And yep thats the one


Nope fortunately no damage to the vehicle at all during the entire trip. Drove through the alps and Switzerland but unfortunately not through the main epic ones many people go on. Was that or the Nurburgring as it was the second to last day of the trip.

Haha, I bought her lunch lol..Long story

You can check on the shipping site, I dropped mine off on 8/12 and it left yesterday/today for NY/NJ should arrive on the 9/3. West Coast right? Enter your full VIN as cargo ID on the link below, it should give you info its somewhat up to date. Let me know if you need help, PM

https://offices.2wglobal.com/offices...uickSearchPage

[onefreerunner]

Great review, I just got back two days ago and I could relate to your experience, I wish I could write as good as you, but I don't!
Btw I picked the manual too, great choice!

[metrickid]

Nice! Makes me want to fly to the US just to do a euro delivery!

One question, how does the insurance work for these trips?
I can't visit countries like Romania with my car since my insurance isn't valid there (and some other countries in Europe where cars disappear). Are the ED trips fully covered everywhere?

[///M Dream]

Originally Posted by pr0gi

Great writing! Thanks for the awesome journal I would like to ask you one thing. About the suspension. How was it? How did you feel driving in Romania? Since Bulgaria and Romania have some bad roads I've been thinking to order the car with 18 and adaptive suspension but not a big fan of the adaptive suspension. Is the standard suspension too firm and the more soft settings of the adaptive would be better for such roads
Thank you again for the time you've spend writing this amazing journal!

Depends which part of Romania your talking about to be honest haha. Many parts have good roads but equally many are terrible. I would most definitely order the car with Adaptive suspension in those countries, the ride isn't terribly rough but with those roads it makes it quite uncomfortable. Here in US I'm not sure why anyone needs the vehicle with adaptive suspension but out there i would recommend getting the option.

Originally Posted by DocWeatherington

Haha, I bought her lunch lol..Long story

You can check on the shipping site, I dropped mine off on 8/12 and it left yesterday/today for NY/NJ should arrive on the 9/3. West Coast right? Enter your full VIN as cargo ID on the link below, it should give you info its somewhat up to date. Let me know if you need help, PM

https://offices.2wglobal.com/offices...uickSearchPage

I actually had no clue about that website, many thanks! Looks like mine was just placed on ship today with a estimated time of arrival of a month in California

Originally Posted by onefreerunner

Great review, I just got back two days ago and I could relate to your experience, I wish I could write as good as you, but I don't!
Btw I picked the manual too, great choice!

Thanks man, did you happen to take any pictures or create a thread? Would love to see a fellow ED journal.

Originally Posted by Rossifumi

Nice! Makes me want to fly to the US just to do a euro delivery!

One question, how does the insurance work for these trips?
I can't visit countries like Romania with my car since my insurance isn't valid there (and some other countries in Europe where cars disappear). Are the ED trips fully covered everywhere?

The vehicle is fully covered by Allianz. Therefore it is covered in all EU nations including Romania. Car was in the garage about 75% of the time in Romania as well, didn't take it out that much.

[DocWeatherington]

Originally Posted by Rossifumi

Nice! Makes me want to fly to the US just to do a euro delivery!

One question, how does the insurance work for these trips?
I can't visit countries like Romania with my car since my insurance isn't valid there (and some other countries in Europe where cars disappear). Are the ED trips fully covered everywhere?

Also BMW gives quite a bit of insurance in the million dollar range and it costs nothing for the first 14days.

[DocWeatherington]

Originally Posted by ///M Dream

I actually had no clue about that website, many thanks! Looks like mine was just placed on ship today with a estimated time of arrival of a month in California


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Haha and so the wait begins, you suffering from M withdrawal yet?

[adc]

Originally Posted by SteveSpy

Dude your trip is a dream trip for me. Unfortunately I won't be buying another M car for years, so I won't likely be able to do this anytime soon. Then again, maybe I can trade in our Touareg for an X5 and do it? Hmmmm... there's an idea!!

You cannot do Euro Delivery on the X5, X3, X4 or any other model made in the US. I did it on my X1 though since that is assembled in Leipzig.

[adc]

Felicitări! O aventură superbă, sper să mă duc din nou și eu la anul.

[SteveSpy]

Originally Posted by adc

You cannot do Euro Delivery on the X5, X3, X4 or any other model made in the US. I did it on my X1 though since that is assembled in Leipzig.

Awww crap I forgot those are made in Spartanburg damn it

[///M Dream]

Thanks everyone

Originally Posted by DocWeatherington

Haha and so the wait begins, you suffering from M withdrawal yet?

Its definitely starting to set in now keeping myself distracted in the mean time to make the time go by faster.

Originally Posted by adc

Felicitări! O aventură superbă, sper să mă duc din nou și eu la anul.

multumesc. Și trebuie să dacă aveți ocazia. mare experiență

[adc]

multumesc. Și trebuie să dacă aveți ocazia. mare experiență

Ah, eu am făcut deja 4 până acum...

Poza din semnătură e de la Nurburgring, 2009.

[DocWeatherington]

Originally Posted by ///M Dream

Thanks everyone


Its definitely starting to set in now keeping myself distracted in the mean time to make the time go by faster.

But don't lie you check the shipping website daily, looking at potential rims and other after-market parts.. Perhaps even went to another dealership for a test drive.

[IMrMark]

Haha, we shared the same delivery spot brother! congrats, awesome trip!

[mpbruin108]

did you ever find out how that guy was levitating on that stick?

[stressdoc]

Congrats! I just got back from short trip -- loved Lago di Como and Portofino.

[The English Guy]

They happened to have a M4 on show room floor. Price was $124,000 Euros, almost had a heart attack when I saw that.

This is exactly my problem....

[jskrilla]

Wow what a trip. I'm pretty sure you just cleared all doubts in my mind about black sapphire. The sakhir orange as well was what i wanted inside and this looks EXACTLY how I am purchasing my M. Thanks for the pictures.