Clod_King
1/2 ton status
I wiped out on the highway thursday morning (at 1:00 am). I like to see carnage, and I am geussing other people do too. But don't worry, no chevy was harmed in the making of this carnage.
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Destroyed car just in time...
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shooters_7
Registered Member
Nothing some cutting, hammering and bondo won't fix....its only a BMW so no loss.
Blaze
1/2 ton status
You need to just chain the ass end to that tree and drive off. That'll straighten right out.
Clod_King
1/2 ton status
It was only me in the car. And I had a small bump on my head that went away by the time I woke up.
I was coming home from a girls place and was going around a corner that was a suggested 70 km/h, and I was doing 80. I shifted from 5th to 4th, and the shift was hard enough to lock up the rear wheels, and it was enough to rotate my whole car and send me into the ditch backwards. I hit a guardrail post from the opposite side.
It could've been alot worse, there was a downed lightpost there, and I just barely missed it. I'm sure it would've flipped me if I would've went into the ditch sideways.
I have an aerial photo, but not on this computer. I'll post it later on today...
There are some magor support structures that got bent and destroyed. But fortunately I had already purchased an 86 GMC 3/4 ton 2wd. Engine swap soon. Plus my 14bff is going under it. It'll be a fun truck, hahaha.
shaun89
1/2 ton status
wow,that sounds like a crazy ride, glad ur alright. ur tranny must be a real wide ratio to lock up the back from 5th to 4th
funny story, but off topic.
A guy came in to where I work a couple weeks ago and starts describing a clunking noise in the rear end on his truck. He wants to know what is wrong so to get a little background info I asked how long it has been making the noise. He replies with, "It didnt ever do it until after we tied the bumper to a tree with a chain." I raise my eyebrow and ask why he tied it to a tree. He said he was trying to get the bumper off and the bolts were stuck so he tied it to a tree and started jerking.
I had to let someone else help him because I couldnt stop laughing.
funny story, but off topic.
A guy came in to where I work a couple weeks ago and starts describing a clunking noise in the rear end on his truck. He wants to know what is wrong so to get a little background info I asked how long it has been making the noise. He replies with, "It didnt ever do it until after we tied the bumper to a tree with a chain." I raise my eyebrow and ask why he tied it to a tree. He said he was trying to get the bumper off and the bolts were stuck so he tied it to a tree and started jerking.
Back to the BMW, if I were you I would have just let off the gass and would have tried my luck with my speed taking the curve, this BMW could have easily taken a curve 5-10 mph over the suggested speed. Hell I take curves with my 18 wheeler 5 miles over the speed suggested and one time I was caught off guard and took a 35 mph curve at 60mph and decelerating only with the jake brake, no braking on a curve if you want to survive, the only thing that happened was my rear trailer axles lifted off the ground about 1 foot for 300 feet until I started straightening out then they went back down, I was empty though so it helped.
That's the proper way to do it! I'm pretty sure I read that in a Haynes Manual.
Back to the BMW, if I were you I would have just let off the gass and would have tried my luck with my speed taking the curve, this BMW could have easily taken a curve 5-10 mph over the suggested speed. Hell I take curves with my 18 wheeler 5 miles over the speed suggested and one time I was caught off guard and took a 35 mph curve at 60mph and decelerating only with the jake brake, no braking on a curve if you want to survive, the only thing that happened was my rear trailer axles lifted off the ground about 1 foot for 300 feet until I started straightening out then they went back down, I was empty though so it helped.
That or match RPM's with the gear so you don't lock up the tires when you switch (your clutch and trans will love you for it too
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Clod_King
1/2 ton status
Yeah, I realize that I ****ed up on many levels. But either way it's a known problem stretch of road. My tow truck driver told me they call it the louge (how do you spell that? Luge?).
I was telling a stopped car I was alright, and almost watched a car go in the same area. It was an Audi station wagon. And it was raining. Sorry never wrote that. But still I could've done things to prevent it.
I was telling a stopped car I was alright, and almost watched a car go in the same area. It was an Audi station wagon. And it was raining. Sorry never wrote that. But still I could've done things to prevent it.
Most people don't try drifting unless they at least have a 325. 
RudyO
1/2 ton status
What type of A/C pump do BMWs use? York?
resurrected_jimmy
1/2 ton status
That curve doesn't like german cars
supersize75k5
OrganDonorRacing.com
BMW = big mormon wagon
Clod_King
1/2 ton status
I lied about one magor fact of that crash. And most of you guys caught it right away.
I was not doing 80, I was doing 130, climbing to 140. That was the moronic move, but I was trying to make decent time to get some decent sleep before work.
And if I wouldn't have went into the ditch backwards, I would've gotten some serious whiplash. That car actually faired pretty well in a rear I think. Those E30's are well built little buggers, and they go like snot.
Again, sorry. I'll never lie again... On here.
I was not doing 80, I was doing 130, climbing to 140. That was the moronic move, but I was trying to make decent time to get some decent sleep before work.
And if I wouldn't have went into the ditch backwards, I would've gotten some serious whiplash. That car actually faired pretty well in a rear I think. Those E30's are well built little buggers, and they go like snot.
Again, sorry. I'll never lie again... On here.
