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> Palm Springs mini meet - April 26th, 08, Ricerrx7 works, Popeye watches...lol
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post May 4 2008, 03:44 PM
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A few weeks back when I was considering Pumbaa's Eibach lower springs, Ricerrx7 offered to help me install them if I got them as I don't have much of a shop or tools to do such stuff. I decided against them at that time as I needed to spend that money on tires instead. Well I had some other stuff that needed installation and ricer again offered to help with this. I have to say that Adam (ricerrx7) was very generous to offer to do some work on my car gratis, someone he'd never met and while it was remove and replace he offered to do it nonetheless all inside the beautiful facility that he calls work, Palm Springs BMW. So I made the trek up to Palm Springs and met up with Adam. The drive up was uneventful and I was glad to make it in good time and getting good mileage, even with the AC blowing halfway there.

I had bought some fancy front rotors and pads along with a 19.5mm rear sway bar and though I could have installed the bar by myself, it is vastly easier to do with the car up on a lift. Same with the brakes, add to that air tools and such and the job less of a hassle, what a lucky guy to be working in such a nice environment. Granted Adam did most of the work and was happy to do it, I did lend a hand a little bit here and there. He also did an alignment on the swanky new Hunter system as seen below and brought the car back into spec, though after almost 3 years and 43000 miles it was in pretty decent shape in that regard. The roads are crummy here (San Diego) in spots but not as bad as Detroit...

We took a test drive and chatted a bit afterwards and then swapped tail-lenses as we both felt each other's lenses would look better on the other car, and indeed they do!

All in all I'm glad I drove to meet a real cool member of the club and to have an honest, hard working guy work on the car. Cheers Adam!

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Bob Hope's place is just up the mountain, right there above the roof of the GT... and yes he's dead laugh.gif
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post May 4 2008, 08:12 PM
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post May 4 2008, 08:58 PM
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that's awesome. . . Very nice of you to do that Adam!!!!


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That is one really nice service department. You could probably eat off those floors.


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^And if you do you'd better clean up after yourself or it'll be the last time you did that laugh.gif


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Awesome!


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coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool, .


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