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town325i
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:57 pm
i was parked up at my gf's house earlier today and this has happened to my car in an hour of being there i didnt hear nothing or see anything and no one has come round to say they have done it so i am really pissed off

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if anyone say it will polish out i will not be held resposible for my actions
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Jhonno
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:58 pm
Sucks!
It'll polish..
To be fair, could have been worse! The bumper and light are ok!
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CG_Maintenance
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:59 pm
Petes favorate and some g3 it will be fine
(sorry couldnt resist but i didnt say it will polish out. Sh1t i just did)
seriously not good fella
is it jus the wing
Can I kill it, can I eat it, can I Fk it ?
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scottidog
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:01 pm
I cant understand how that has happened without damaging the bumper, could it have been a kid on a bike or something???
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:02 pm
****s! Look on the bright side though - just bolt a new wing on & it's ok... Imagine if it was a rear quarter!
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robbo86
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:04 pm
Wont it pull out even, bit of smoothing with some filler!
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town325i
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:04 pm
a fucking landrover discovery and my car was on a slight slop making the rear bumper higher than mine.
it is only the wing that is damaged and the grill is broken im having a pair of wings off simon13 going to collect them on saturday
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leeparkes
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:05 pm
w4nkers
looks like 4x4 bumper height!
Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place..

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scottidog
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:05 pm
i got an o/s grill/headlamp surround if you want it mate.
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town325i
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:09 pm
ive got a spare grill and the lamp is fine thanks for the offer.
at least ive got a pair of genuine wings that are in good condition to pick up and a couple hundred miles drive but at least they are the right colour every e30 ive had has been hit around there
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scottidog
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:11 pm
thats true that exact area always seems to get clipped. i put it down to the women

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robbo86
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:12 pm
thats true that exact area always seems to get clipped. i put it down to the women
Bloody womens in their Chelsea tractors!!!
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town325i
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:17 pm
its an alchoholic scottish man thats been shot with a police tazer gun trying to stab a load of kids calling his 14yo pregnent daughter a slag. he has got a bit of a srcew loose anyone else i would of been round there but i dont fancy a kitchen knife sticking out of me
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Jon_Bmw
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:17 pm
I am paranoid about my car, even though its scrap really, everytime I leave it at a large uni car park! Young women in Ford Ka's everywhere. Its a recipe for disaster, although on a smaller scale. I take two spaces where possible. Still by the time someone has moved halfway through the day, some cunt usually ends up 2" off one of the wingmirrors
I'm one pin dent(car door) up in only 2 months

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town325i
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:20 pm
ive only had the car on the road about 3 months not doing very well really
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Alex
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:26 pm
robbo86 wrote:thats true that exact area always seems to get clipped. i put it down to the women
Bloody womens in their Chelsea tractors!!!
took the words out of my mouth
99% of women should be confined to little town cars with an engine smaller than 1.4

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cliffybabe
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:29 pm
Ziggy wrote:****s! Look on the bright side though - just bolt a new wing on & it's ok... Imagine if it was a rear quarter!
how true that is

Considering Selling the Cabby, looks like its gonna go
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town325i
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:31 pm
cliffybabe wrote:Ziggy wrote:****s! Look on the bright side though - just bolt a new wing on & it's ok... Imagine if it was a rear quarter!
how true that is
i know what you mean but its still hard to take
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cliffybabe
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:34 pm
town325i wrote:cliffybabe wrote:Ziggy wrote:****s! Look on the bright side though - just bolt a new wing on & it's ok... Imagine if it was a rear quarter!
how true that is
i know what you mean but its still hard to take
yeah i would do my nut if it was my motor

Considering Selling the Cabby, looks like its gonna go
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town325i
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:38 pm
i normally would do but this bloke is a real loon he is most the loaf short of a full loaf
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Alyman
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:49 pm
I know how you feel mate, a bus clipped the door of my E30 last night

No point in going down the insurance route, and I'm unlikely to find a door in the colour I need. Even if I get a door and paint it it'll never match the 20 year old paint on the rest of the car. Gonna have to do something though as it's doing my head in locking the car from the boot.
At least you've managed to source a pair of wings in the right colour, and quickly too - your car will be back how it was in next to no time

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leeparkes
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:50 pm
town325i wrote:i normally would do but this bloke is a real loon he is most the loaf short of a full loaf
theres more than one way to skin a cat

Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place..

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Morat
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:47 am
Jon_Bmw wrote:I am paranoid about my car, even though its scrap really, everytime I leave it at a large uni car park! Young women in Ford Ka's everywhere. Its a recipe for disaster, although on a smaller scale. I take two spaces where possible. Still by the time someone has moved halfway through the day, some **** usually ends up 2" off one of the wingmirrors
I'm one pin dent(car door) up in only 2 months

I feel for you, I really do. Imagine being surrounded by young female students all day. It must be torture ;)
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e30_singh
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:28 am
scottidog wrote: could it have been a kid on a bike or something??
Must be a macdonalds kid, if Jamie Oliver had his way and we went on scottidogs explanation this would have never had happened!!
thats bad, hate it when people do this, same thing happened to my brothers e36, a 4x4 or a taxi reversed into his front bending the grill and damaging the bonnet, luckily the bumper escaped.
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Jon_Bmw
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:36 pm
Morat wrote:Jon_Bmw wrote:I am paranoid about my car, even though its scrap really, everytime I leave it at a large uni car park! Young women in Ford Ka's everywhere. Its a recipe for disaster, although on a smaller scale. I take two spaces where possible. Still by the time someone has moved halfway through the day, some **** usually ends up 2" off one of the wingmirrors
I'm one pin dent(car door) up in only 2 months

I feel for you, I really do. Imagine being surrounded by young female students all day. It must be torture ;)
Its unreal. So much talent its untrue. Long live fake bristol uni.

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sati
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:22 pm
ive got wings but in alpine white looking for £55 posted or £40 picked up very good nick and iam only around 35miles away
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:36 pm
staffordshire says it all, 4x4 country,
we have only a few 4x4 knocking about, every one else drive real cars!!!
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e30bmlover
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:19 pm
i feel for you buddy, i am so paranoid about my car its becoming a problem! i put the immobilizer on and change the leads around on the dizzy cap to @uck up the firing order! one of these days im going to forget what order i swapped them.. but we will cross that bridge when it comes to it! i have 2 sets of locking wheel nuts on the car... and i take up 2 parking spaces when i go out.. and if i take the car anywhere round a friends in norwich i check on it every 15 mins or when i get the urge. when i work nights at work(im on them this week) i will put the car inside one of the units.
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:24 pm
e30bmlover wrote:i feel for you buddy, i am so paranoid about my car its becoming a problem! i put the immobilizer on and change the leads around on the dizzy cap to @uck up the firing order! one of these days im going to forget what order i swapped them.. but we will cross that bridge when it comes to it! i have 2 sets of locking wheel nuts on the car... and i take up 2 parking spaces when i go out.. and if i take the car anywhere round a friends in norwich i check on it every 15 mins or when i get the urge. when i work nights at work(im on them this week) i will put the car inside one of the units.
but with a car like yours id be just like you!!!!
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e30bmlover
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:28 pm
zimmer-320i wrote:e30bmlover wrote:i feel for you buddy, i am so paranoid about my car its becoming a problem! i put the immobilizer on and change the leads around on the dizzy cap to @uck up the firing order! one of these days im going to forget what order i swapped them.. but we will cross that bridge when it comes to it! i have 2 sets of locking wheel nuts on the car... and i take up 2 parking spaces when i go out.. and if i take the car anywhere round a friends in norwich i check on it every 15 mins or when i get the urge. when i work nights at work(im on them this week) i will put the car inside one of the units.
but with a car like yours id be just like you!!!!
im just a @ucking head case mate... even the wife and my friends laugh about my obsession... i nearly knocked a bloke from the local Chinese out because he was looking round my car, i clocked him as i stood in the living room, so i went outside and asked him what the @uck he was playing at looking around my car with intent.. he quickly replied.. im just looking at it mate.. you dont see many around!
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:09 pm
leeparkes wrote:
town325i wrote:i normally would do but this bloke is a real loon he is most the loaf short of a full loaf
theres more than one way to skin a cat

Indeed, for example, you could find somewhere else to park.
Who knows, once your car has been out of sight for a week or so the discovery might even spontaneously combust

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town325i
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:36 pm
DanThe wrote:leeparkes wrote:
town325i wrote:i normally would do but this bloke is a real loon he is most the loaf short of a full loaf
theres more than one way to skin a cat

Indeed, for example, you could find somewhere else to park.
Who knows, once your car has been out of sight for a week or so the discovery might even spontaneously combust

i would pay to see that
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:52 pm
Alex wrote:robbo86 wrote:thats true that exact area always seems to get clipped. i put it down to the women
Bloody womens in their Chelsea tractors!!!
took the words out of my mouth
99% of women should be confined to little town cars with an engine smaller than 1.4

Tell me about it.. I see women in chelsea tractors extremely frequently in Jersey. Basically eveyone in the farm side of the island (everywhere but south) own's a woman and a 4x4 and its hell... and sometimes funny. Seen one tap a porshe in a car park, stopped, pulled forward, got out of car and just walked away. I was queueing and saw it all. She didn't even notice she did it. Poor bugger with the porshe later probably saw the dent (size of a coin to be fair), but obviously had enough money to pay for it to be fixed... and then pay for his wife to get another chelsea tractor after she drives hers off a cliff or something..... trust me, 2 sets of girls have drove off small cliffs in jersey. in the last year...
Uni is killing the project.