After leaving the street fair in the BMW X5 on Sunday, my daughter asked, "Momma, what's this?"
Glancing up in the rearview mirror, I realized she was holding a piece of the X5 in her hot, little hand.
"I didn't do it," she said. "It was already on the floor."
Sure, I thought, asking her to slide it under the front seat so it didn't get stepped on before I had a chance to check it out.
Of course, once it was tucked out of sight, I completely forgot about it until I got to the office this morning...
Perhaps you can tell me where this piece of trim belongs before I have a chance to go down to the parking garage and look myself?
Kelly Toepke, News Editor @ 12,023 miles
roar02ram says:
03:04 PM, 06/23/08
Seat track end piece/cover?
carlisimo says:
03:38 PM, 06/23/08
It probably fell off the Caravan...
jriz says:
03:40 PM, 06/23/08
^^ Somewhere Ed McMahon just went "Hey oh!"
gobryngo says:
03:49 PM, 06/23/08
She is insanely cute, Kelly.
estreka says:
04:06 PM, 06/23/08
It's a complimentary BMW tumbling gymnast toy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQdKJ3j3Plo
phinneas519 says:
04:45 PM, 06/23/08
Trim pieces falling off of a European luxo-barge at 12,000 miles? Where's the outrage? If this were the Chrysler T&C (which admittedly sucks) there'd be so much "shame, shame peeling potatoes" going on in CA alone that there'd be reports of rampant wildfires from all the friction.
BMW, I want you to step out back with me. There's a few words I'd like to have with you about your SUV, sorry, Excitement-OMGWTFBBQ-UV culture you are currently drowning in.
altimadude00 says:
05:33 PM, 06/23/08
I would concur with roar in that's it's a seat track end cover. Once in a while they pop off my car because the rear carpets get bunched up. They just slide/pop back into place.
This is not a piece that spells certain doom to BMW just because it popped off.
carfreak8394 says:
09:24 PM, 06/23/08
carlisimo,
lmao !
anilpunjabi says:
12:58 AM, 06/24/08
i say the same - seat track cover for front seat. Remember a bmw is a drivers car not a car to be driven(will start to fall apart :))
jpr18 says:
04:56 AM, 06/24/08
This happens on my X5 too.....it is either the rear (behind the driver seat) rail cover, or it can be the front cover of the driver seat rail.
No biggie, just snaps right in. Rear passengers who kick are the culprits! :)
pengwin says:
06:51 AM, 06/24/08
quote: jpr18
--"This happens on my X5 too.....No biggie, just snaps right in. Rear passengers who kick are the culprits! :)"---
phinneas519, you got owned, BMW is a car made for adults. not kids.
s197gt says:
07:01 AM, 06/24/08
maybe it is because i've been watching discovery's "when we left earth" the last three weeks, but your daughter looks like she's strapped in and ready to be blasted to the moon on a saturn 5 rocket...
a little overkill isn't it?
ktoepke says:
07:16 AM, 06/24/08
Yes, I agree that the car seat looks like a bit much, especially from this angle. But she loves the thick bolstering on the Recaro seat.
She's nearly eight-years-old, but she's such a twig, she only weighs 45 pounds.
felonious says:
09:43 AM, 06/24/08
My son has a Recaro seat too. Best car seat on the market, IMHO.
cartester16 says:
09:46 AM, 06/24/08
What happened to riding in the "way back", and sucking in fumes from a 327 4bbl? I'd hate to be a kid these days, having to wear pads and a helmet like a retard to do ANYTHING, and having to ride in one of those silly baby seats. We're gonna have a generation of OSHA- happy softies on our hands.
s197gt says:
10:11 AM, 06/24/08
i thought that said recaro on the side...
my first thought was waaaay over-protective parent but if she likes it, well then win-win!
roadburner says:
10:54 AM, 06/24/08
The best car seat I ever used was a BMW "Carli" seat. It was modular so that you could use it from @12 months up to about 10 years of age(the bottom seat cushion acted as a booster seat). Thanks to the US legal system, BMW chose not to offer them here. I had to order one from a German BMW dealer and have it brought in through-ahem-other channels. I used the same method to get my son a first generation Baby Racer a couple of years before BMW started importing them...
cx7lover says:
11:01 AM, 06/24/08
Volvo has built in Booster seats.
cruiserhead1 says:
11:09 AM, 06/24/08
I would get Recaro kid seats no matter what vehicle I owned, even a Volvo.
stingray454 says:
10:04 AM, 06/25/08
"What happened to riding in the "way back", and sucking in fumes from a 327 4bbl? I'd hate to be a kid these days, having to wear pads and a helmet like a retard to do ANYTHING, and having to ride in one of those silly baby seats. We're gonna have a generation of OSHA- happy softies on our hands."
I agree. Pretty soon kids will have to ride around in a giant bubble. It's a far cry when I was a kid - I grew up riding in the back of a hatchback 1971 Pinto, and in the back of a Ford Country Squire wagon with the tailgate down, getting a full dose of exhaust fumes on the highway. No seatbelts, no restraints, plenty of carbon monoxide. I survived just fine.