You know you a drive a 318ti when...

[frankie]

Originally Posted by b.u.ti-ful

It's like being Batman while having sex on roller skates and meth.

i didnt think you could use words to describe it but you did

[frankie]

Originally Posted by Maverix

You know you a drive a 318ti when...

• You park 1 feet away from the curb, and your still fully inside the parking spot.
• You can remove the door panel and oil the plasitic guider on the regulator in less than 60 seconds.
• You show off to your friends that you can lock the door, roll up the windows, AND close the sunroof with your key.
• your friend spends an hour looking around your car, then finally asking,"How do you roll down the windows?"
• you think going 35mph on a turn is normal.
• you get all worked up when you see another fellow 318ti.
• You find reasons to modify something.
• You constantly search on Craigslist for a 318ti, even though you have no intentions of buying one.

Feel free to add to the list

your girlfriend is mad the heater doesn't work

[KirbyVII]

I enjoy the fact that my car disappears next to Hondas and Yotas. Having removed my back seats, I now have a lounge area to enjoy. I also enjoy taking the 25mph turn downtown at 60 without phasing or shaking.

I do keep finding reasons to mod things. And there's usually a random "HOLY ****!" escaping my mouth when I see another 318ti. ^_^ It's like being 10 again and meeting another kid with the same first name.

[LN318TI]

you know you drive a 318ti when someone asks what happened to the other two doors.

[ofrhythm]

this is my experience:

you know you own a 318ti when your rear wheel slips on the highway when it's first starting to snow and it's windy--lose control and pull a 360 in the middle of an intersection with a line of cars behind you, [I'd be damned if I were to be behind someone--what's the beautiful a$$ for?] and make it out unscathed.

I know now how light it actually is.

[b.u.ti-ful]

Wow - glad you came out okay.

It is blowin' out there!

[ofrhythm]

^^^^^Yea thanks, as am I. I had my buddy in the car and had it for less than two weeks. But doesn't change my *cough* LOVE for the car. Hope to get some TOYO Proxes soon though.

[b.u.ti-ful]

Good tires do make a big difference on these cars in snow and pavement.

[ChItalian1027]

yeah it was snowing like crazy a couple days ago in carbondale, just wish i had my ti down here to snow drift with my friends, there cars range from S2ks to evos, to 5.0 Mustangs to a 96 M3

[pdxmotorhead]

- You tell all your friends the passenger seat is a camo pattern from the factory rather than explain the crappy cupholders, and your wife's starbucks habit.


Dave

[My98Rot]

Not sure if this has already been said but

You know you drive a Ti when

-you find yourself constantly complaining about how the Traction Control comes back on every time you turn the car off.

-people turn their noses up at you cause they think you're loaded because when they ask what you drive you have to say "a BMW"

-You're constantly patting yourself on the back for getting a Ti instead of that stupid ______________ (insert car name here)

-You feel like BMW could've easily put electric pop side vents in because there's literally a million different places for the switch

-You spend your paycheck in your head on the first of the month

[Borg561]

-You head forward down the ramp in your parking garage, then reverse into that spot at the very end when every other spot is taken, without ever having to pull foward/back up again.



Sorry for the crappy camera phone picture. Pic was taken after work, not when I got back from lunch and did this (my hands were full with food).

Justin

[wolfnacht]

You know you drive a Ti when

1. you drive home sideways in the snow and still be in your own lane
2. can be parked at a 45 degree angle and still be in your parking stall
3. you can park your TI in a Walmart Cart corral... and NOT scratch your paint...
4. you put your window down, and expect it not to go back up...
5. your friends try and change where the heat blows and keep twisting the knob in circles confused...(hvac lights blown)
6. others can't read your clock
7. you park in a stall correctly and have 3ft on each side of the car
8. you park in those "Hard to park" or "extremely tight" parkin spaces, can still get out of your car... Just because you can

I'll have to find what Corral we used but one is a few inches wider than the others and take a picture

and I don't know if our parking stalls are slightly larger than elsewhere... but its funny how I can wedge my car in to these tight areas... and others cant

[medic8023]

Originally Posted by Maverix

When you lose sleep waiting for your latest mod to come in the mail.
When you think that 99% of the time, you have the right of way in every situation because you know that others dont want to get sued by a BMW owner.
When you accidently write your VIN number instead of your social security. (I was on something -_-)
When orange lights mean,"IF you step on it, you WILL make it." (relatively true in Austin, 'cause of our heavy traffic)
When you start telling civic owners,"Did you know Ricer, pronounces 'ricer' backwards?"

This also applies in Houston as well.

[medic8023]

-You look forward to leaving work not because you are headed home, but because you get to travel down a particularly curvy road.

-You treat every non-straight road as your own personal road course.


BTW, the road I go home on has a 90 degree that is banked so well that I can do 50mph without batting an eye.