u/Im__TheGuy — reddlx

Used car lot

Anyone know of any used car lots that buy cars from people? Looking to sell my car and want to see what a local lot would pay and if it wouldn’t be worth the hassle to sell privately. If it matters, it’s a 2015 BMW coming up on 150k miles that I’ve owned since it had 18k miles (I know this really doesn’t matter to 99% of people and probably BHPH lots but I’ve been meticulously on top of maintenance and have complete records of everything ever done to the car, for whatever that’s worth)

Apparently the main Tacoma sub considered this a solicitation for sale lmao. It’s not, I’m not trying to sell my car to anyone of Reddit.

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u/Im__TheGuy — 3 days ago

▲ 2 r/M235iandM240i+1 crossposts

Buying from CarMax

Hi all, currently own a 2015 F36, and had an E46 before that so I’m not a stranger to owning BMWs. I’m planning on buying a 2023 M240 next week through CarMax, assuming nothing is amiss when I go to see the car/pick it up (currently en route transfer).

The car has 27k miles and is optioned with ZTK, so has some extra complexity. My current internal debate is over the CarMax offered extended warranty, which from what I’ve gathered is considered one of the best and easiest third party warranties to work it. Wanted to get some opinions and advice from here, and preferably current M240 (or 340, or 440, basically any car that is going to be built on a similar platform) owners or anyone who has experience with their reliability.

I’m planning on keeping the car for at least 5 years and will likely be putting about 15k miles per year on it, so I was looking at the longest warranty plan which would cover the car for 60 months from purchase or when the car hits 100k total miles. The options for that plan are about $5000/$4200/$3600/$3300 for $50/$200/$500/$800 deductible. I’m currently between the $200 or $500 deductible options but wanted to see what people suggested. Have owners been having to bring their cars in multiple times for warranty work so a lower deductible would make sense? Or have they been pretty solid and only rarely needed warranty work so a higher deductible would make sense?

And yes, I will be getting a PPI (post purchase inspection) within the 7 day return window to make sure all is well and good

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u/Im__TheGuy — 6 days ago

▲ 57 r/GranTurismo7

I love this game

Got the game a couple weeks ago and have almost 30 hours in it. Been making my way through the menu books and license tests mostly. I try to stick with each test until I get gold and have done that up until IA-10 (fuck that Mercedes, I’ve barely been able to bronze it). Decided to dip into the S license and couldn’t pass up the F1 on Laguna. What an absolutely incredible experience.

Wanted to share the accomplishment of getting gold in my first S license and also receive feedback on where I’m leaving time on the track. The most glaring ones I see is just overall tightening up apices and using the full width of the track, went a little too deep into corkscrew (just missed my braking point which I use the start of the curb in the right), hitting the sausage on the penultimate is obviously bad haha, and I feel like I’m not coming through the hairpin very well but not sure what to change. Still trying to get a feel for proper trail braking in the game too.

Edit: on a wheel, all assists off, abs default, TC 0

u/Im__TheGuy — 28 days ago

▲ 3 r/carspotting

TECHART Magnum spotted in Redmond

u/Im__TheGuy — 1 month ago

▲ 16 r/exjw

Highline schools sued after student says she was told religion was not an opinion, barred from sharing gospel tracts

What do you think the odds are this student is a born in JW? I feel like this has the Borg written all over it. I know I was encouraged to hand out tracts and shit to my classmates, anyone else remember all the bs talks about how our schools were our “special assigned territories?” Lmao. JW or not, gotta feel bad for the girl, she has no say in how she was raised, hopefully she can come to her senses and learn to be more tolerant and actually loving as she gets older

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u/Im__TheGuy — 1 month ago

▲ 127 r/PNWhiking

6/14 Annette Lake!

Perfect weather, a bit hot at some points on the way up but just made the lake all the more refreshing. Good amount of bugs lakeside but nothing biting. Wish I took a closer picture of the waterfall on the far side of the lake.

u/Im__TheGuy — 2 months ago

▲ 50 r/AnalogCircleJerk

Only analog cameras are able to really capture the soul of the divine energy beings we are*

*Leica and Portra 400 required

u/Im__TheGuy — 3 months ago

▲ 12 r/askcarsales

Trading in an imported car

Kind of a weird situation, don’t know where to go. Took my car (2015 BMW) into Carmax to see what they’d give me and the guy came back and said they couldn’t make me an offer because the car was never imported properly into the states. I tried to get him to explain more and he wasn’t really able to. Mentioned something about there being a sticker of some kind that was missing (maybe emission related?) but nothing more. I bought the car in Canada and imported it to the states after a few years. Went through the proper channels, obtained the letter of compliance from the manufacturer saying it met US EPA and safety regulations, declared the car at the border and paid import fees and registered the car here, so I know it was imported properly. I have retained all this paperwork. Not sure where to go from here. Tried contacting the DMV and all they were able to do is confirm that the car is legally registered in the US. Hoping someone here might have some experience and point me in the right direction. Would a proper BMW dealership be any help? Thanks

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u/Im__TheGuy — 3 months ago

▲ 379 r/photographycirclejerk+1 crossposts

New to film photography and picked up a Canon A-1 which I had CLA’d before going to Ireland a few weeks ago. Just got the images back and while there are a few good ones it seems like most of them don’t look good. I know part of that is definitely user error, but I wanted to get the community’s input to see if I’m looking at these correctly.

Took in total 4 rolls of film, 1 Ektar 100 and 3 portra 400. I let everything neutral for the ektar and set exposure comp to +1 for the portra. All in all just under 140 photos. Had them developed and scanned at a local photo lab and it seems like maybe the scanning wasn’t great? It looks like a combo of the white balance and tint is off in a lot of them and inconsistent. Cool and blue in some photos, warm in others, some have a green tint, some yellow etc. I’m also pretty sure there is some shutter capping going on and some light leakage. Here are a select few images showing some of these issues, let me know what you see and if you agree with me. 1-3 are ektar (4 might be too, I don’t remember and when I got the image files back they weren’t grouped sequentially), rest are portra. All shot in aperature priority mode. I definitely need to learn the quirks of how to gauge exposure with these cameras since they evaluate the entire image, a lot of the golf course photos and other bright day photos left the subject way too under exposed.

White balance/tint off
Shutter capping
Light leakage in bottom left and right

5 and 6. Light leakage on bottom

7 and 8. These are two images taken back to back, look how apparent the color shift is. That has to be from scanning right? Or could that be something in camera? I can’t imagine analog camera’s have adjustable in body white balance and tint, do they?

White balance seems off

A lot of the white balance issues and inconsistencies are pretty apparent in portrait shots but since those are of my girlfriend she wouldn’t appreciate me posting those.

All this aside, I did have a blast using the camera and can’t wait to get better at using my equipment. Still had a number of shots that turned out well so I’m happy enough with those. The photo lab gave me all TIFF files so I should be able to do some corrections in photoshop but want to get anything fixed on the camera that needs to be. Thanks a bunch!

Edit: wow, I got so many more responses than I would have expected for a 9 pm post on a weeknight, I really appreciate all the help from everyone. Consensus is that I got a bunk CLA (it was $40 when a full service is more like $200 😬) and the scans don’t seem to be the best. I’m going to bring the camera in to a well established local shop (Glazers) and have them do a full CLA and rescan the negatives (fingers crossed they weren’t accidentally tossed by the developing lab). Thank you all!

u/Im__TheGuy — 4 months ago

▲ 0 r/askcarsales

Going in later this week or early this week to look at a 2023 BMW M240i. Do incentives usually exist for used vehicles or are they usually only for new?

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u/Im__TheGuy — 4 months ago

▲ 790 r/AerLingus

Flying SEA->DUB I purposely booked a window seat on the left side of the plane figuring/hoping I’d have a good shot as seeing the northern lights. Very glad I did!

u/Im__TheGuy — 4 months ago