My poor old M3!!!!

Steve

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Had a call from my best mate who bought my M3 2 weeks ago, he has just stacked my old mint e36 M3 :(

Apparantly he went round a roundabout and hit some diesel that had been pushed up buy the bit of rain we have just had down here.

Front wheels understeared and he caught that just as the rears went over the same patch and just let go, he again caught that but ran out of room and smacked into a very high curb (not too fast) he has trashed the side of the car and the rear wheel is damaged and sitting at a funny angle so the arm must be knacked.

Before you all say diesel aye blah blah, my mate is a driving instructor, an advanced driving instructor, a qualified instructor instructor, now a copper with police driving training, an ex stunt man and a sports motorcyclists so is well adept at driving he has done ice lake driving in finland so is not too shabby at controlling a car when things get slippy.

This is his first real ever crash, and he said you can see the diesel on the ground.

He is gutted but is fully comp (protected) so will claim off that

I am also gutted to as it was such a clean example, hope nothing major is bent

On a positive note 6 hours till I get my M3 as it is finally fixed, woohoo.

Pics of my car and my mates one to follow ;)
 
might be leaving my DSC button on in my m3 now lol ;)

As for the Diesel coming from experience on my bike it is incredible how much there actual is on the road if you look for it.

Wait for a little rain after a dry spell and it lifts it out of the road.

I had one incident where I saw it as I cam round a corner on the gixer, so I just relaxed on the bars and my whole body and eased off the throttle and just let the bike go over it as it pleased, was an odd feeling going from grip to nothing in an instant, bike went over ok with a little wobble as the back regained grip on the other side.

There is a whole campaign by bikers about the dangers of diesel and how they are trying to get somethiong done about Trucks over filling (or something)
 
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Thats the thing I supose if he is consentraighting on the traffic (he was going around a roundabout after all) then he probably wasn't looking for it. I know I don't spend my day hunting it out, although with lowpro tyres I do look at the road a lot to avoid potholes :p

Even the best drivers make mistakes
 
I have only spoken to him on the phone at the scene so will get more info.

The torque on the m3 will catch you even at slow speed (develops 66% of max torque at 2.5k revs!) if you hit anything, I almost bought it on a white line on a 10mph corner once.

I drive like I am riding my bike now as although I am protected and am not going to hit the deck I would rather not hurt my baby.

I am suprised this happened to him but I don't know the full details, if there was a car infront of him he may not have had a clear view of the road surface, the light at that nagle may not have been reflecting off it.

Lots of reasons
 
People often forget about big tyres aquaplaining more easily, and always wonder why I am so cautious in the wet.

Spoke to my mate some more and he is really cut up, it did go off the road after hitting the curb and hs done damage to the underside as well.

The rear nearside ACS II wheel is smashed and jamed up under the arch at a funny angle.

He has been punishing himself and really has been torturing himself about what he could have done differently.
 
Update

quote for repairs stand at £4500!!!!!!!

new acs wheel, tyre, new trailing arm, bushes, shock.

The underside of the car is dented to crap where the car bounced along the side of the road on the chassis which is bent and need putting on a jig and re-alining.

I am worried as car is worth 8-9k so it is around cat D write off territory
:(

Still if it is I have told him to buy the car back as the engine and box is worth 3.5-4k and the interior 1.2k so he could actually make more on it having it writen off!!
 
Matt82 said:
whats been done to the engine to make it worth that?
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Maybe not quiet that much then but not far off

They are VERY sought after for conversions to lesser 3 series
 
Matt82 said:
my uncle brought a 98 evo engine and box a few years back for a conversion, we saw the car it came from and saw it only had 20k miles on it.

all in it was just over £1.1k with a handful of other bits thrown in too.

have had a lotta fun with those things in the past. his own M3 is pretty much dumped on his driveway now :rolleyes:
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He got a bargain as they definatly go for more than that!
 
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