[wassell2381]

Start Rant:

Driving along a quiet road in Ardross this arvo and was almost side swiped by this middle aged indian man in a Camry. I swerved to miss him and hit the curb at 60. Front wheels went straight up but the rear caught the drain. Done a nice job too. Meanwhile the c**k head has driven off totally ablivious.

My biggest worry is the allignment. I dno how much play there is on the back of the e90's. Glad the tyre didnt pop though

End of Rant:

[QLD]

Ouch!! nasty

[sbce90]

From the title I was expecting something about cops.

[pcockley]

I'd prefer the cops to that wheel, ouch!

[Chris.G]

DAMN! Time to get a new car.

[wassell2381]

Originally Posted by Chris.G

DAMN! Time to get a new car.

Yea that'll be my excuse. That wouldnt hav happened in a discovery 3

[QLD]

Originally Posted by Chris.G

DAMN! Time to get a new car.

[Chris.G]

Evoke mate, EVOKE! What you going to do with a disco 3...lol my bad you live in WA.

[bmwaddiction]

i feel for you man... thats gonna be a massive job trying to fix that wheel and match the paint perfectly to the other 3

[wassell2381]

my day just got worse. Got in to go to the shops. Half way round ther and im wondering, Why am i steering left? Seems that the steerings ompletely out

Hoping that its just the steering thats off line and not that its crabbing but i guess ill find out tomoz.

Might be time to fill out a police report

[e92sydney]

Hey mate, I feel for you. A similar thing happened to me 6 months ago, I was in Sydney CBD and a taxi left the kerb into my lane all the sudden and I had to swerve to avoid him, clipping one of my wheels, I wasnt happy.

I stopped to give him a piece of my mind, but I couldnt do much coz he didnt touch my car, so I couldn't send him a repair bill. But the thing is, it is much better to swerve than to have accident and even possible be liable for it depending on how you hit him.

I wished there was a way to get these reckless drivers to pay, or take away their license.

PS- I also almost go T-boned by a young girl driver on wednesday when it was raining here. Good thing I speed up to miss her when I noticed she wasnt stopping, and I was going too fast to stop anyways. Later I saw in my rear view mirror, she did an emergency stop, and was just stopped for a few seconds trying to get her head around it.

[wassell2381]

Originally Posted by e92sydney

Hey mate, I feel for you. A similar thing happened to me 6 months ago, I was in Sydney CBD and a taxi left the kerb into my lane all the sudden and I had to swerve to avoid him, clipping one of my wheels, I wasnt happy.

I stopped to give him a piece of my mind, but I couldnt do much coz he didnt touch my car, so I couldn't send him a repair bill. But the thing is, it is much better to swerve than to have accident and even possible be liable for it depending on how you hit him.

I wished there was a way to get these reckless drivers to pay, or take away their license.

PS- I also almost go T-boned by a young girl driver on wednesday when it was raining here. Good thing I speed up to miss her when I noticed she wasnt stopping, and I was going too fast to stop anyways. Later I saw in my rear view mirror, she did an emergency stop, and was just stopped for a few seconds trying to get her head around it.

Yea ppl just dont take enough care. Driving a car actually takes skill.

I'd much rather a scraped wheel to panel damage hey. Cars are never quite the same after parts are replaced and resprayed.

Cheers
Dan

[luster]

Originally Posted by wassell2381

my day just got worse. Got in to go to the shops. Half way round ther and im wondering, Why am i steering left? Seems that the steerings ompletely out

ugh, sorry to hear that man

i love(d) your wheels too

Let us know how you go about restoring them too, I would be interested to know how much it costs and how it pans out.

Cheers!

[Rivenscyr]

I kerbed a rear wheel which resulted in my car being

out 2mm front left, out front right 1.5
out rear left 8mm, out rear right 1.5

i hit the damn kerb hard as hell lol, drove around like that for at-least 1000kms. steering wheel was left 10~15 degrees when driving straight lol

[kimbo]

I feel your pain.. its happened to me before with a reckless indian driver on parramatta road Sydney. Almost rammed my car just because he was in a bus lane and the camera was coming up and I happened to be beside him. I swerved to miss him and luckily there was no car in the lane next to me. Anyways this guy then pulls up next to me and we argue for a bit and then he tells me to go back to my own country in a really strong indian accent!!! Im asian but i was born here in Oz, so my english doesnt have an accent or anything. Im just disgusted that a person with heavy accent will even have the guts to tell someone else to go back to there own country when they were obliviously not from here!!!

[sbce90]

Damn these indian drivers suck! Probably best to keep them off the road.

[wilsonho87]

Originally Posted by wassell2381

Start Rant:

Driving along a quiet road in Ardross this arvo and was almost side swiped by this middle aged indian man in a Camry. I swerved to miss him and hit the curb at 60. Front wheels went straight up but the rear caught the drain. Done a nice job too. Meanwhile the c**k head has driven off totally ablivious.

My biggest worry is the allignment. I dno how much play there is on the back of the e90's. Glad the tyre didnt pop though

End of Rant:

hey how much are those rims?

[pcockley]

Originally Posted by wilsonho87

hey how much are those rims?

special price for you mister!

[MFKN3]

If you're planning on keeping it and it was a 90 degree curb and not a smooth one, you should consider getting all your suspesion components checked out man for bends and cracks. Normally in curb impacts, they will replace the arms, rods and links, etc

[wassell2381]

Originally Posted by wilsonho87

hey how much are those rims?

They are a set of style 189's (stock wheels on 335i coupes) and i had them resprayed metallic grey. Same paint code as the ferrari f430 rims.

Cost 600 to get them patched up and refinished