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Originally Posted by apecush
I was quoted $700 installed for the full-load (light, rain, and moisture sensor) oem glass. You guys need to stop going to the dealer for this stuff - any glass place can get oem and install it for you. Oem brand (North American made) no-logo glass cost me a whopping $350.
Also, I drive the car year round without issue. Only precaution I take is to pressure wash the undercarriage once during winter and once in spring to minimize salt damage.
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I think I am going to take off the windshield coverage and have the insurance go down, even though it most likely won't make much of a difference. The case of these seems to be a lot less than the C63 I had which is when I had the policy changed.
How do you pressure wash the undercarriage? Don't you need the car lifted for that?
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Originally Posted by jtz
I've been using my E90 as a daily driver since it was new in 2011 through each winter and its help up well. I have 140k kms and am going into my 5th winter. I put a new set of Michelin Alpin Pa3 on last year beacause I was happy with the preformance of the original winter set from the dealer, which was similar. I think they were $3200 tire and style #282 rim They are also a square setup. I do alot of highway driving and have managed to keep it on the road even while hitting a couple sections of bad black ice and seeing the cars in the rear view mirror go flying off. The traction control is good for this.
I've replaced the 3m paint pro ($900) once and the windshield ($350) once. The paint is still very good (two very small chips) and the glass has one chip that I had filled in for $45. The glass is aftermarket and I am fine with that, the rain sensor has always been a little off on the light rain, on both on the oem and the aftermarket.
This winter I plan to drive my truck or wife's X3 when the roads are bad and avoid the stress of the transport trucks flying by at +120km/hr when I'm going slower with snow on the highway.
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Good to see a fellow Albertan do the right thing with their M3! I actually plan to avoid highway driving even though I do a lot of it between Calgary and Edmonton. I have other vehicles for that, but I simply refuse to let it sit in the garage for entire winter when I could do inner city driving. I had the winter set put on on the long weekend and so far there is no snow. Look's like we may not have much snow this winter anyway but I guess we shall see.
Which mode do you drive the vehicle in during the snow?
