E30 Zone

Yesterday morning i was going out to my work at 6am it had been raining for a while before i left the house and the roads were really greasy, i was going round one of the roundabouts brave and easy, was about to come off the roundabout and the back end stepped out really bad i corrected it straight away but because of the greasy road she swung straight round in the road and headed for the kurb.
there was f*ck all i could do at that point all i could see was the kurb, the drivers side front wheel hit and i looked up instantly to see were the car was for going and guess where?????? thats right straight in to a lamp post!
The rust free pride and joy is a complete write off and i couldn't be more heart broken!

Bloody hell

That was an early morning wake up call!

I assume you walked away OK

Sorry to see another car gone

Hope your ok fella, that is a shame

Aye thankfully i walked away unharmed i was really luck in that sense.

i wouldn't of been so lucky if the e30's didn't have the build quality that they do.

AHHH make it stop!!!! Those pics are too upsetting to look at, it realy did look like a mint motor, sorry to see it in that way mate.

Glad to hear your okay. Thats the main thing.

Glad to hear your okay. Thats the main thing.

i know that now but for hours i couldn't see any good just a complete waste of a really clean sport. woke up today hoping it was a nightmare...

Yikes,

How fast were you going into that lampost? Sorry to see that - a real shame.

That looks like its hit the lampost at faster than 'brave and easy' roundabout speeds to be honest fella
Glad you came out of it unscathed shame about the car

to tell you the truth i can't remember how fast i was goin but it was obviously too fast when you see the way things turned out.

That must be almost heart breaking!!

Another clean sport bites the dust....You going to start again with another one?

that is a pretty bad knock dude! hope she gets replaced with something just as tasty

wheres the lampost you hit, in the photos?

RIP

ouch...sorry about the car, and glad you Ok.

sorry to see that buddy, brave as i am even i would have to concede defeat on repairing that one

glad youre ok though

ouch! shame!

To be fair tho, as has been said, looks like you were goin faster than 'brave and easy' Also the greasy road had nothing to do with it stepping back the other way, you over corrected it..

would like to say ive done it myself at 70mph before on a motorway slip road.. luckily i got away with it

That sucks!!!

Sorry to hear that mate.

Try to retain salavage rights, that beauty may help a few others live on!

Good to hear you're ok. Most important thing.

Bad luck mate - A bit of T-cut?

Insured Fully comp?

ouch thats really bad

There's the actual light in the pictures beside the drivers door didn't take a picture of the post but its still standing.

i know i over corrected it but its just easier to blame the greasy road.

she's insured fully comp but i'm not gonna bother with insurance because it'll likely bite me in the arse next year just gonna cut my loses.

i'm having a think about buying another sport aslong as she's rust free i can work with that.

That's what really fecks me off with insurance, you legally need it. It's supposed to protect you and give to piece of mind when these things happen. When they do happen, ok they'll pay out, but they expect you to pull doen your pants and take it in the arse for years to come.

Makes my pish boil!

Good luck in sourcing a replacement. The dead car may help on the money side of things.

Gutted

However, I sincerely hope that it stays the worst day of your life, for a long time - cars are only bits of metal afterall. That shell's fubar, but there's plenty of stuff that'll swap over onto whatever you find to replace it with. No need to search for another sport necessarily...

Damn that sucks! I feel with you man!

Good Luck with everything!

I saw the car parked on the verge just before 8:00am. Sad day but glad to hear that you are OK. What's the plan to rebuild into a good 2 door shell?

gutted for you mate, try find a mint shell to rebuild it all into?

Be glad you've still got your legs dude. It's gutting but you'll get over it. I span my 944 Turbo into a concrete wall when I was 25 and I was gutted for weeks. You'll get over it though and in years look back and realise how lucky you actually were.

Did the car come from Manchester? The reg looks similar, I'm sure it's one of the Sports my little brother has owned.

If i get a mint shell i can take whatever i need outta the sport so i'll more than likely do that i'll definitely need another e30 because the sport was the most satisfying car i've ever owned.

i definitely know how lucky i am didn't realise it at the time but when i had a time to think i'm more than thankfull that i walked away from it. people have ended up far worse from far smaller accidents.

not sure where the car came from i bought it from some guys that bring them over here.

89-325isport wrote:she's insured fully comp but i'm not gonna bother with insurance because it'll likely bite me in the arse next year just gonna cut my loses.

You'll need to inform the insurance wether you claim or not... I don't think you need to inform the police though as no-one was hurt.

I'd ring up and say "just mangled my car but not sure wether to claim or not, please can you give me next year's quotes based on (a) having claimed and (b) not having claimed so I can decide? ".

If you don't claim...then you keep your "no-claims"! The fact you crashed is almost seperate, the only other thing they'd hurt you on is if the police gave you points, which they haven't.

Anyway, glad you're ok, too close to nutting the lamp post for my liking, especially as the door is softer than the pillar. Always best to stick lamp posts/trees etc into the other side of the car from you if possible, that's why the navigator always gets it in rally crashes!

Ouch! Like everyone else has said, very lucky to come away from that, even the interior looks mangled! I've been reading about so many E30's gettin written off and smahed recently and the wet road's have definately put me off unnecessary journeys like the convertible meet when it was p***ing down, I'm not writing off my motor for the sake of a meet, but if a day comes and it can't be helped so be it. glad your ok mate - Reshell!

ouch man thats painfull looking, how fast did you hit the lampost sideways not having a dig it looks like a fatal place to be hit there in any sort of side impact.

really don't know what speed i hit it its still sorta a blur i'm glad it hit where it hit, if it had of hit the door i'd be write off just like the car.

f###ing gutted for ya mate that looked a lovely sport i smashed mine up on a roundabout in the wet these motors are pretty lethal that way shame.

really unforgiving motors i always said that she would teach me manners some day and that day came sooner than i thought.