In Septemeber there was a sidewall puncture on the left front tire resulting probably from a not-so-careful curbing. Wheel alignment was also knocked skewed. After a new tire and a thorough four-wheel alignment (with front camber calibrated) the car glided and flowed effortless the best it could. Before the wheel alignment it were like dragging a full bag of garbage behind everywhere I drove.
With both wheel alignment and fluid change the C36 seemed to be back in the game now, with rear tires often skiding and spun from standing start if I was too generous with the throttle. I am not sure it was the cooler weather now, or it was the lack of dragging the a/c pump, that made the engine more responsive and friction-free. It is indeed one of the best moments I have had with the C36. It had ocurred a couple times before with the C36, as well as with other cars that I once owned. I remember how I feel like trying to do everything to get the car to this kind of perceived state of perfection.
What is wrong with being in a perceived perfect state is that things may go wrong or deviate rather than improving by themselves. So one would stay tensioned worrying about losing it, and any effort retaining the state of perfection or its perception shall become an attachment or a drag in itself. A perceived perfect state therefore should be treated as an celebrated event, and should be enjoyed while it lasts. Its coming and going are related to one's own effort and intervention but not absolutely or entirely so. It may not last as external conditions may intervene. It is not a sure thing. In human terms attending state of perfection contains a lot of meanings in itself, and hence has a lot of going for it. At least for some of us at times.
