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DISCUSSION => Exterior => Topic started by: Birdman16 on November 07, 2008, 09:33:11 PM
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Just like the title says. I just lost control of the car on a backroad after dropping off my girlfriend. Slippery road with leaves plus 1 slab stone wall plus one mint brilliantrot e30 = disaster. The rear end came around and I almost saved it. It was about to come back when the tires hit wet pavement instead of leaves and shot me into a 3-4ft slab wall. Major damage to everything below the bumper.
I'm making this thread because like me, may of you have crashed bad or had a minor fender bender. Post your best pic or pics and we can have some fun with this while sheading some tears. Have fun and drive safe!
Will have pics up by end of weekend.
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i'm sorry to hear this!
i once had a crash with mine, winter time. done a spin and half and ended up a few 100 meters further down in a field.. although i couldn't be cherry picking; it was winter. i was in 2 meters of snow. no damade to the car, only snow in the exhaust (i got in the snowbank backwards before completing a spin). wish i had pictures to share. my oncle has one. he was passing by, had a big laugh, took a picture and left.... ...
anyways, hopefully you can repair your e30? be happy it can't look half as bad as my one when i bought it
(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd79/hoevesruperd/HPIM1223JPG1.jpg)
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double post sorry
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Good stuff. Glad to hear im not the only one. Picks will be up once I get the phone back and I'm not grounded anymore...
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And by the way. parts on the way monday and I'll put it back together the second I get a chance. Most likely that weekend.
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Sorry to hear. I guess better it happened after dropping off your girlfriend than before. I had someone back out of a parking space and hit my 94 325is. That was a 1 grand hit to repair. Not my fault, but I was sad nonetheless. I haven't wrecked either of the E30s yet, although someone very nearly (as in 10 inches or so) sideswiped my 318i in a roundabout when he changed lanes without looking. That was 2 months after I repainted the whole car -- Id'a been pissed!
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any pics?
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I will have pics up soon. Will do so after getting over my girlfriend dumping me for my best friend. How did that happen? I'm beside myself...
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Bummer! I wrecked mine in similar circumstances (winter, frozen roadway, almost saved) a couple years ago and took out my front bumper, valance, fender, & hood. Had to rebuild her all myself. I think I've got some pics at home if I can remember to come add them later.
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I wrecked my first e30 after getting fired from a job. It was completely my fault and i ended up pulling the core about 6 inches out with a tree and a come along. Replaced the front valance, bumper and hood. I am pretty sure 98% of people wreck there first car.
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I have owned my car since Feb 12th, 1999.
I got it with just under 100k, it now has 266k.
It has been a great car.
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I will have pics up soon. Will do so after getting over my girlfriend dumping me for my best friend. How did that happen? I'm beside myself...
mannn you gotta learn how to play the gameeeeeeee
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I will have pics up soon. Will do so after getting over my girlfriend dumping me for my best friend. How did that happen? I'm beside myself...
Wtf!? :eek: You've got an ass whooping to hand to your "best friend"! The girl should be left alone because she's a woman and well.... they may retarded decisions constantly.
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Never trust a single word a woman says. In 5 minutes she'll change her mind. Unless she's drunk. :D
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thats no good at all i had the luck of wrighting off a customers car from work spun out and hit a street light post. and i've smashed my current car to slide into a bus stop turn out and hit the curb bent the subframe control arm wheel just think of it as a learning process
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Keep up the good work. Also thanks for the girl advice.. good to have some diversity on the forum:D
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You're repairing it? Part it out, it's WAY beyond totalled.
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No its not.. it needs a new bumper, all lower valence, foglights and turnsignals. 500 for a new front end (already shipping) and 150 for the stone wall, what a deal. I actually drove it today because grounding is over and it drove great, no suspension damage and nothing cracked broken or bent. Should have it by wednesday and I will do the front end with the help of my dad next weekend.
The only thing that sux is that I have to do manual hand turn signals. The cop behind me today got a kick out of that in 30 degree weather on the road...lol
I've got skidschool tomorrow... I think it will hurt me more than anything. Front wheel drive and traction controled Hyundai Sonatas vs. Rear wheel drive and no traction control 318is. Hmmm. what do you think. I would keep the e30 even if I had a choice.
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awsome nothing like learing how to drive in a front wheel drive sh!t box sounds like fun. traction control is for sissys... fix the bimmer and have some fun Safe is side ways
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Gonna leave in about a half hour. Did some hyundai driving in the Grand Turismo game with a steering wheel. Handles much different and slides are difficult. Should be fine though, practice makes perfect.
Second what Boosted E30 said: traction control is for sissys and safe is sideways.
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pics!
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Will post when home. Leaving for CMSC now.
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ya the driving style for fwd is tottaly different ecpecially in snow they should have both fwd and rwd cars to teach the different handling.
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Yeah. Had a good time at skid school. Didn't even need to go. My dad spun out the car more than me. I spun only when they told me to. My dad spun the car even when they told him not to.... lol. They only taught threshold braking. Not using the throttle. I have a half day and I'm updating from shool. Will do pics when I get home from school. Got to take the car in today and got all good reviews.
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I will have pics up soon. Will do so after getting over my girlfriend dumping me for my best friend. How did that happen? I'm beside myself...
I'll tell ya how, when she found out that you damaged your poor 318is, she automatically labeled you as a BMW killer. If I were a girl, I would leave you too :)
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Thanks man, that made me laugh really hard actually. I hung out with a bunch of friends today, and Courtney and her new boyfriend showed up aka best friend. I went back with her to her house to hang and he randomly showed up again. They got it on in the bedroom while I was there and I hauled ass away from that house, she comforted me and found where I had parked down the street, but he came, wanted to kick his ass.:mad: Horrible day. Then got in my e30, downshifted a gear or two, and big smiles poped up:D:D:D I love that car, don't know what I would have done without it. It has gotten me through good times and bad:)
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Just put the front end on. Came out nice. A little darker red than brilliant rot for the bumper and a black lower valance. It seems to be the one that was standard on the 325 for that year. It has slats where we have that long black trim piece on the front.
Quick question. I went to put the splitter valence back on, and the holes where it pushs up to the front of the lower valence does not line up. There are no holes and the clips are in the way. I'll take the clips off tonight and see if there are holes underneath, but in the mean time... is there any way to fit the IS splitter onto a 325 valence??
Thanks
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Anyone have any advice, really want to put the valence back on. Look up one post for details.
Thanks
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The 325 valence is just like our valence, and they both use the same front lip, so everything SHOULD line up correctly.
When I first got my car, my front valence had a beautiful dent and the lip was ripped off, so I dissasembled everything and sent the valence in for repair. Then I had the project of putting it all back together. What made it a real fun project was that the lip had massive amounts of really really hard glue holding the broken clips on, so I had to cut my way through that. Without any other knowlege, I am going to guess maybe you have the same problem?
Also, it's nice to see another 17 year old out there with the same car as me doing the same thing. Hauling major ass away from the houses of girls that do not desire to be your girlfriend. I really hope you're not serious about them having sex while you were over, cuz I would have no idea why you would even talk to her after that. But spend five minutes in your car, along with some spirited driving, and everything just seems to look up :) I, too, don't know how I would handle life (emphasis on the girl portion) without my car to restore a smile on my face.
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Thanks man, I don't know, she just really does not know what she wants in life. I think they just made out and she moaned, she does that a lot... anyway. I would get back together with her beacuse it is not working out between them, and she really, I mean REALLY realizes her mistake...
Let the hate responses begin...
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id be carful with her make her pay and suffer for what she did dont give her what she wants right away or it wont be the last time she pulls that sh!t
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Whoa man.. calm down!!! I know that. It would make me vulnerable. Just don't blow up on me for that!! I know how to work on this. They are gonna break up soon. Early January..
Thanks guys. Ill try to have before after and now pics from the crash during christmas break. I have a half day and Economics sux right now.
I just got a Saturday detention for skipping accounting and going tho the library and doing a project.... Probably should not have gone to homeroom.... Whatever
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wasnt blowin up at you just makin sure you know and dont do stupid things thats all
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awww still no pictures.
Oh, and about an hour after my last post or so, I did exactly what I needed. My BMW saved me again. Happiness was restored! Yay! I ended up going to get gas because I needed something to do and when I finished, I was getting ready to leave and I saw a nice e60 drive by, and I wondered if it was an M5, so I drove pretty fast to catch him before my street, and he thought I wanted to race him. I thought to myself, hey, I wonder how my 18 year old BMW will do against this brand new BMW. So I raced him, but was not going all out because we were on a main road, and I didn't want to get screwed by the police. So I drove pretty regularly behind him until we got to the thruway. Then I gunned it from 5 thousand in second around a corner, and passed him because I had much better handling, but he passed me not too much later, and I kept on it until I got to 130 mph. He was a decent amount ahead, but we both slowed down, got side by side and went again, and with a degree of obviousness, he beat me. But by now I had nothing but a big smile on my face and was really amazed at how well my car kept up with his. He was probably 500 feet ahead of me and we were both going 70, and I shifted into third and gunned it, and passed him and it took him a while to catch up to me, and he passed me as I slowed down to exit.
I flashed my high beams at him, and he flashed his hazards, both thanking each other for the fun, and that was that. It was fun, but I laster hated myself for doing that because my oil level was too low, but I didn't know. So if anyone is wondering, a stock 318is will not lose by that much in a race against an e60 535i. I was sad no longer.
Oh, and did they break up yet? :)
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i like how this thread is street racing/driving school/skipping/ bitchy gfs/ and hen finally maybe a wreck....with no pics!!!
ahaha
good thread over all +1
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HELLOOOOOOOO EVERYONE!!!!!! I have been grounded for SOOOO long and I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW: Yes they did break up.
I love the story on the street racing. I love dicing with other people who know how to have fun and drive!!!! It does not happen around here anymore but I love being next to a person who does not suspect it and downshift to second or third and just go for it. The sound off the back of the car reverberating off another car or the dividers on the highway into mine is such a sick sound. Just the raspyness alone brings a smile to my face.
I have a confession to make though....
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO POST PICS!!!!!!!!!!!! I have tried different ways here but I can not do it.... Do I have to open an account through a picture website or what. Someone help me out with this and I will let you have all of the pics of my car.
BTW: My street racing days are over. I promised Courtney I wouldn't do it because it endangers me and other people. My record is 47-1.... I lost to a testarosa....
LOL
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wasnt blowin up at you just makin sure you know and dont do stupid things thats all
Thanks, I know.... MY BAD!!!
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Hey!!! Just loaded some pics to my album... Just click on where it says Birdman16 ans look at the bottom right. There are pics of the car when I first got it, and before the accident when it looked PERFECT!!!! I'm going to load some pics from my phone now and I'm having some trouble, but I'll figure it out...
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hmmm I don't see any "after the accident" photos. Oh and loving this, I just slid into a parked car today. What the F#$%. I had so much traction when I drove from work to subway for lunch, then when I went to go park, I went to park normally without extra caution, and I turned the wheel and everything was fine, but then I turned it more and I just went straight. There was no chance of me making it if I turned the wheel the other way in hopes of traction that way, I was too close. I hit the brakes and felt the ABS massage my right foot. My brakes didn't do shit. I slid right into his '96 Jetta, and hit him and watched his car slide a bit. I felt my heart drop. I put it in reverse and parked and then rushed out to check the damage. I contacted him right around my passenger side turn signal, and trashed both of my exterior bumper trim pieces. The black trim piece exploded on impact, though only losing a small bit above the turn signal, and around the towing loop hole. The body colored trim piece cracked and a chunk came off, about the length of the turn signal. His piece of crap Jetta was fine though, minus maybe some scuff marks. I knew him anyway, and he wasn't mad at all, but I was mad at myself for being so careless. Just as I was getting ready to upgrade something in my car, I go and do this.
So in order to fix my baby, I will need parts #1 and #18, and I am unsure about #19 and #20. http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=AF93&mospid=47305&btnr=51_0644&hg=51&fg=15 Over three hundred dollars of damage!? I am so screwed. The likelyhood of finding a later year e30 with a perfect bumper in a junkyard is rather low. I bet a gun may be cheaper...
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ahhhh still no pics from birdman16!!!?!?
and while were still on the topic of crashing, i wrecked yesterday...
all it broke was my i lip (even more) ahah, guess its time to upgrade...
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I have damage on my car like that too. I hit a dog though. This happend years ago, its hard to find un-damaged bumpers in the junkyard.
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I believe it....I spent an hour and a half calling every single junkyard in and around my county. Most didn't have BMWs whatsoever, and those that did didn't have e30s. There were a few that did though. The retards at the junkyards don't understand the bumper I need is universal on most e30s post 1987. They don't actually need to know it is a 1991 318is, and I love how they ask if it is a coupe, sedan, or convertable. It was EXCLUSIVELY made as a coupe, and what does that matter anyway? I need a bumper, not a new soft top or rear doors.
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I know xwill112x I know... My dad said he would bring a card reader home so I can get the pictures off my phone but that hasn't happened yet. I tried through the usb but my computer isn't recgonizing it yet.... Jeez. sry about your car. THe bumper like exploded!!! Where did it go!!! Hope all gets fixed soon and that it isn't too expensive.... some of us know how that goes...LOL:)
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The white chunk you see missing from the bumper cover cracked off, and sat awkwardly in it's appropriate position after the crash, and I removed it at the scene and placed it inside my car for fear it would fly off while driving. The black portion of the trim piece exploded, leaving small bits everywhere. As for fixing it, I have a $75 deposit down on a $135 bumper cover in black primer, and have done nothing to this point in terms of replacing the black trim piece.
In other news, my dad scratched my car as well when he borrowed it. He needed it because his car was on jacks, and he needed something to work on his brakes. Take a look:
(http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm26/e30Andym42/scratch.jpg)
The white stuff on the lip is road salt, just fyi. He claims he didn't notice the jack under his car when he pulled in the garage.
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HAHAHA I hope that never happens to me!!! I'm gonna try to pst some pics today if I get the chance from the accident!!! Can't wait to see response once I post it. Hope you all are driving safely but like you'll die tomorrow in all of this snow!!! I know I am!!!
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i didnt die, but my rear tyres did while i was spinning 5th gear. ;)