New build! E90 M3
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Glad everyone’s alright Pat.
every single person that has hit Brooke has not had insurance. Such a pain in the ass
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Glad everyone’s alright Pat.
every single person that has hit Brooke has not had insurance. Such a pain in the ass
Thanks man! I kept hoping that he was just an idiot and really didn't know who his insurer was but he's just a regular idiot, not a forgetful idiot.
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Thanks man! I kept hoping that he was just an idiot and really didn't know who his insurer was but he's just a regular idiot, not a forgetful idiot.
I’m sure he was more than ready to cut you a check that would bounce
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I’m sure he was more than ready to cut you a check that would bounce
I tried to be so nice about it when he was standing there just throwing numbers at me about what he thinks the parts cost on my car. Without sounding like the pompous douchebag BMW owner I am I was trying to gently explain that this is an M3 and parts are not cheap. I told him the mirror alone was probably around $1000 and he scoffed at that. Said there's no way and you can get them on ebay for less. He suggested the fender could come pre-painted for like $200. I tried to explain how paint matching and blending works and how that'd never look right. It was all moot.
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What sucks is he would probably pay less than $2k a year for commercial insurance on that shitty old box van
Glad it's getting fixed up right though, family connections work when they remember you. 
In all fairness her uncle remembered me but the guy at the front desk, who I had met multiple times, did not remember me lol
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I'm still waiting for the mirror and fender liner to show up. BMW had an ETA of last Thursday but they still haven't arrived. In the meantime why not stock pile parts to install! I'm extremely excited for these ST XTA+3 coilovers. They are 3 way adjustable, height adjustable and come with camber plates. They're adjustable rebound and high and low speed compression. The benefit of this level of adjustability is a more dynamic ride that will lead to higher comfort and better handling. These are made by KW. These are not outsourced to one of the the Taiwanese factories other coilovers are made at. There are slight differences in the finish on these and the warranty compared to KW but the important stuff is high quality.
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It sucks that he didn't have insurance, but at least he stopped so you got his info. Most these days wouldn't.
If I was you I'd go buy some lottery tickets, hoping your luck is still holding out.
From reading your account of the accident. I would have figured the "M" was toast, and you had his bumper in the side from the rear door handle up to the roundel on the hood. You got lucky.
I had a tangle with box truck about 30 years ago. Hit me in the same corner, but hard enough to send me spinning like a pinball, bouncing of 2 other cars and finally t-boned by a van. Wound up in a ditch with the van teetering on the edge ready to roll over on top of us any second. My Mustang didn't have a straight panel left and the passenger seat was ~9" wide. I'm lucky to be alive.
Looks like most of the damage was simple bolt on stuff, and with a good paint match it will look better then new.
Good to see everyone was OK, M is on it's way to healing, and the upgrades continue.
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She's finally home! Sorry for the shitty pictures I was just too excited to take any decent ones. I asked them to leave my lip off so I can line that up how I want it so I still need to do that. I could not say enough good things about the work Radix did! I can't tell there was any work done other than there's no more rock chips on the front end!
I took the kids for a rip on the way back home and they just giggled and giggled when I'd run through some gears with the windows open! It feels so good to be back in this car.
Now to get my coilovers installed!
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The coilover install had a slight hiccup preventing me from finishing it a couple weeks ago but it was unrelated to the coilovers themselves. My passenger rear lower shock bolt snapped off which meant I needed to pull the arm to try cut out the shock and remove the bolt. Spoiler alert, I could not get the bolt out. It's an aluminum CA and a steel bolt that I'm guessing is stainless or has some coating to prevent galvanic corrosion. I tried soaking it in PB, heat, heat plus wax, drilling, using an extractor kit and swearing at it with no luck. I ended up ordering another control arm from ebay before I left for SEMA and got it all put together this weekend.
The coilovers are ST XTA +3. At a high level these are KW V3 dampers with a different coating. They are a 3 way adjustable (Rebound, High/Low speed compression) with height adjustable front/rear and camber plates up front. The shorter sway bar links were included. The instructions are my biggest complaint because they mix German and English and there's not really any organization. It's not like one page is in German then the next is the same thing in English. Some have both languages, some are only in German and some have the pages mirrored. Thankfully the part where they tell you how to set up the rebound and compression is English!
I have it set to their recommended settings and the ride height a little lower than the H&R springs. The ride quality is amazing! It's more comfortable than stock while giving me more confidence in corners, reduced push from the front end and it's far more settled if I hit a bump mid corner. I need to get the car over to Big Bear for corner balance and alignment then the handling will be perfect!
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The team at work shot some content on my car and I'm really excited about it! It's the first time I've seen video rollers of my car and I LOVE IT!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CWbN5lsgi52/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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I can tell how excited you are
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I can tell how excited you are
I think he was nervous
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The coilover install had a slight hiccup preventing me from finishing it a couple weeks ago but it was unrelated to the coilovers themselves. My passenger rear lower shock bolt snapped off which meant I needed to pull the arm to try cut out the shock and remove the bolt. Spoiler alert, I could not get the bolt out. It's an aluminum CA and a steel bolt that I'm guessing is stainless or has some coating to prevent galvanic corrosion. I tried soaking it in PB, heat, heat plus wax, drilling, using an extractor kit and swearing at it with no luck. I ended up ordering another control arm from ebay before I left for SEMA and got it all put together this weekend.
New fear unlocked right before I do my suspension overhaul. Did the bolt head snap off while hitting it with an impact? That really sucks, but hopefully the shock isn't threaded so it could just slip off and you only have to buy one new thing
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