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There has been a bunch of OT threads lately, so i think we should try to keep it all the ot talk in one place. I know the e36 forum rocks, and all the other forums suck big time :bigpimp:, yet we need to stay on topic....
 
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What happened?.....:confused:
Back in 2011, a really good friend of mine was in town for a wedding and was staying with me. I let him use my car to run some errands while I was at work, and he accidentally let it roll into the back of a parked SUV. It got hit (lightly) square in the kidneys (so to speak), and was enough to crack them, dent the nose panel, take a small chunk out of the aux fan, and break the plastic radiator cover. Luckily, it missed the hood and headlights. He felt so terrible about the whole thing, since he's a car enthusiast, too. Anyway, I got all the replacement parts from a local BMWCCA member's parts car and had the new nose panel professionally painted to match my car. When my friend returned with the car dented up, it also had a CEL, which was really strange. I scanned it and it was for a cylinder #1 misfire. I cleared it and it never came back... Very odd. But yeah, it was an unfortunate situation for my friend to be like "hey, I dented your car and the check engine light turned on!" :rofl:



Fortunately (for Jesse), it takes very little time to swap out those front end parts. It's super quick.
 
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Back in 2011, a really good friend of mine was in town for a wedding and was staying with me. I let him use my car to run some errands while I was at work, and he accidentally let it roll into the back of a parked SUV. It got hit (lightly) square in the kidneys (so to speak), and was enough to crack them, dent the nose panel, take a small chunk out of the aux fan, and break the plastic radiator cover. Luckily, it missed the hood and headlights. He felt so terrible about the whole thing, since he's a car enthusiast, too. Anyway, I got all the replacement parts from a local BMWCCA member's parts car and had the nose panel professionally painted to match my car.

Ouches. Oddly enough..... this m was parked at the guy's work and a guy pulled in with his jeep forgot to put the parking brake on and the jeep rolled right into the front end of it. I guess the guy knew the collision shop owner because they really milked it I mean.... replacing the airbags cooling system radiator....and everything else. Final bill was over 3200 bucks from the paperwork I have. Hood and fenders are original so :eek:. Oh and funny note the painting paperwork said they matched like 12 different shades of Avus on the hood lol.
 
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Now that's a solid plan. What you need to do to take it from "solid" to "evil genius" is figure out how to somehow blend steps 4 and 5. A new car and angry sex in the same week? If that's wrong I don't wanna be right.
Um, I'm further convinced that I don't wanna be right either... ;)

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Guy in truck backed into me. Need bumper, kidney grills, nose panel, headlight and chipped my hood....

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OUCH... At least it doesn't look that bad in the pictures. Come to think of it, I have a pair a stock headlights in my garage too... Thought I was free of all remaining E36 parts.
 
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Pretty sure I have a set of spare stock headlights as well. Alongside the stock headlights in my car.

This must be an E36-owner thing... headlights reproduce when we're not looking.
 
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Pretty sure I have a set of spare stock headlights as well. Alongside the stock headlights in my car.

This must be an E36-owner thing... headlights reproduce when we're not looking.
Brittany is convinced that BMWs themselves actually reproduce when you're not looking, so the headlights doing it are easy enough to believe.

:lmao:

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#103,534 ·
Could this goddamn thing come out so I can buy it already?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q8QINLUJpYI

Allegedly production of them has officially started in Mexico and dealers are slashing like $5k off of the last of the MKVIs to get rid of them, but they still won't give us official pricing or a firm timeline.

I have a feeling the one I really want (performance package + adjustable shocks) won't come out until very late this year or even next spring alongside the new MKVII Golf R.
 
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I tell you what, Joey...if Snowy ever dies, that is my next car. I have such fond memories of my MK2...such a nice package of size, elegance and speed. I only wish they had leather interior...that is the only thing it's missing. It's really just a re-badged A3.
 
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That presenter is getting waaay too worked up over a tarted up VW Golf. :p

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