 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | |  |  |  | |  01-20-2008, 03:10 AM | #1 | | Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York Posts: 70 |  Decided to put the 318ti in the ditch tonight.....
Well not like it was planned....but I was goofing around doing some drifting with the fresh greasy snow, it was all going great until I went a bit too fast for one corner and the front wheels didn't want to hang in there for me....so at the break neck speed of 20 mph, we slam into the curb and bounce over it ungracefully...*bang pow slam* we come to a stop teetering on top of this curb with a nice deep muck hole on one side and the road on the other. After jumping out of my car to land in knee deep nonsense, I creep around it afraid to see what I broke. Turns out my perf. cat back decided to take a bite out of my rear bumper cover...leaving some nice cracks in it. front bumper.mint condition minus 1 fog light ?hole filler/cover?. After I get pulled out I pawed around in the muck for a bit trying to find the cover....no luck. Thinking to my self I'm not that bad off......I start to head home..only to be mumbling to my self "Feels like I'm driving a red rider through 6" of mud." Checked tie rods out, look good, both wheels turned...so I continued to drive...only to be all over the road. Hitting bare spots on the road made for a nightmare throwing me which ever way..I think alignment is messed up..bad but I am unsure. Any ideas would be much appreciated. I have zero cash because of certain issues. When I do get cash I will be looking for an alaskan blue fog light filler and rear bumper.  |  |  | | 01-20-2008, 03:34 AM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asdfasdf Posts: 10,002 |
Quote: Originally Posted by bobbob1015  fog light ?hole filler/cover? | that sucks, sorry too hear, definitely sounds like you need an alignment, and they are called foglight "deletes" you can get them from bavauto for $20 unpainted | | | | | 01-20-2008, 04:30 AM | #3 | | Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York Posts: 70 |
Thanks for the info on the deletes | | | | | 01-20-2008, 05:13 AM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asdfasdf Posts: 10,002 |
np | | | | | 01-20-2008, 04:06 PM | #5 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Eugene Oregon Posts: 6,182 |
thats to bad to hear. hope you get it all figured out. but....  __________________
-Josh
Sold-1995 318ti, Club Sport, Hellrot
Sold-1996 318ti, Active Model, Boston Green
Current- 1995 318ti, sport model, schwartz
| | | | | 01-20-2008, 05:25 PM | #6 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: SOUTH Jersey Posts: 1,085 |
alignment.. or possibly even a bent lower control arm.
Shame that had to happen though. I hope the damage is slight | | | | | 01-21-2008, 03:08 AM | #7 | | Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York Posts: 70 |
nothing bad happened to take pictures of....plus i didn't even have my camera at the time after the crash...I tore the front end down to the spindle today gawked at things for a while and then decided to change my ABS sensor...things weren't going so hot so i handed the show over to my friend. He decided to muscle it out and break the head off it.(Leading to me tearing it down to the spindle.) He then proceeded to break off the other side. WONDERFUL! so after some himming and hawing I tried to push/chisel the piece out of the spindle,and finally got it out. Over all the job was probably 2 hours long.
The moral of the story is make sure to gather patients for inpatient friends that help you work on cars.
p.s. traction control in the snow makes my car feel like its going to crap the bed
next in line is cam shaft position sensor
Does any one have any extra bolts for the cam cover? | | | | | 01-21-2008, 04:59 AM | #8 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Eugene Oregon Posts: 6,182 |
Quote: Originally Posted by bobbob1015 p.s. traction control in the snow makes my car feel like its going to crap the bed | hahahaha well glad its all worked out. __________________
-Josh
Sold-1995 318ti, Club Sport, Hellrot
Sold-1996 318ti, Active Model, Boston Green
Current- 1995 318ti, sport model, schwartz
| | | | | 01-22-2008, 08:00 PM | #9 | | Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York Posts: 70 |
went and got it aligned today.......one inch off, toed in. TERRIBLE! no wonder it was such a slop wagon | | | | | 01-22-2008, 09:23 PM | #10 | | That's not Millpoint Blue Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: BNA Posts: 3,161 |
So, nothing was broken or bent, and it only needed to be aligned? Sweet. :-) __________________ Real men know how to SEARCH!
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From Page 68 of the 1997 Owners Manual: "Vehicles equipped with ASC+T remain subject to the laws of physics." | | | | | 01-22-2008, 09:51 PM | #11 | | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: OKC, Oklahoma Posts: 387 |
Yeah it sux I did a 180* today driving to work got scared as f**** cause I was headed straight for a crub and a power pole luckily didnt hit anything!! | | | | | 01-22-2008, 10:10 PM | #12 | | Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York Posts: 70 |
Quote: Originally Posted by roadrash So, nothing was broken or bent, and it only needed to be aligned? Sweet. :-) | and a cracked bumper.... kinda bummed about that but its just a reason to start swapping in M3 parts. | | | | | 01-22-2008, 10:12 PM | #13 | | Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York Posts: 70 |
Quote: Originally Posted by DocDuvi Yeah it sux I did a 180* today driving to work got scared as f**** cause I was headed straight for a crub and a power pole luckily didnt hit anything!! | What were you doing ? Now that I have my abs hooked up I don't think I could spin a 180 even if I wanted to. | | | | | 01-22-2008, 10:36 PM | #14 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Eugene Oregon Posts: 6,182 |
on no with abs you can spin out all you want. thats just your brakes.
if you have asc then maybe it will be a little harder to slide out but still very possible __________________
-Josh
Sold-1995 318ti, Club Sport, Hellrot
Sold-1996 318ti, Active Model, Boston Green
Current- 1995 318ti, sport model, schwartz
| | | | | 01-22-2008, 10:45 PM | #15 | | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: OKC, Oklahoma Posts: 387 |
Quote: Originally Posted by bobbob1015 What were you doing ? Now that I have my abs hooked up I don't think I could spin a 180 even if I wanted to. | I was actually just going straight just there was a patch of ice in the road | | | | | |
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