>buy used M3 for $28000 >everybody says don't because it has $14000 in damage on it >it's a bmw guys things are expensive >find out half the cost was from a replaced carbon fibre roof >having time of my life in new M/// car
>June 3rd >start of summer >hour 11.5/12 of trip across rocky mountains >get smoked from behind by some bitch driving a ram >has a "silly boys trucks r 4 girls sticker XD" >ask my insurance for a month if this a write off >no clear answer >wait until literally October to get car fixed >get the bill >$24'500 >fuck off
>november >pop my car out of gear as per usually to warm er up >walk inside the house to grab a couple things before I go >come out side to find car had slid into neighbours brand new car >no way of proving they didn't properly repair my hand brake assy when doing suspension work and reconstructive surgery on the back of my car >$16000 damage estimate
>tfw
and just like that I went from having my dream affordable car to a piece of metal with nearly $60000 of repair work on record.
Asher Lopez
>buying modern german
Jacob Carter
>german performance in the 20th century >0-2 >f
Angel Hernandez
If you can't afford to buy new German performance, you can't afford German performance period.
Thomas Ross
>better recycle some garbage that someone I clearly think is mentally superior told me >what do E46 M3s cost >oh shit it doesn't cost 80 grand to run
Bentley Davis
>and just like that you got red flagged in the insurance industry's computer network as an irresponsible idiot. Pepper angus etc.
Caleb Phillips
To be fair they would not be wrong to think those things of him
Colton Lopez
wait am I an idiot because i'm on Veeky Forums with a car that isn't trash?
Angel Cox
You pretty clearly left your handbrake off and let your car roll into your neighbours. You don't seem like that much of a dick to not care so you must just be stupid.
Wyatt Harris
>Veeky Forums
I remember my first day on Veeky Forums.
Thomas Smith
so wait your handbrake failed?
bad luck, fucking shops fucked up
Caleb Gray
Does it's fucking say I left it off? You think the car would immediately start rolling on a presumablely inclined angle drive way? You do think I wouldn't notice that?
Dominic Thompson
>M///
Luis Young
I've worked fleet care for HGVs and LCVs for 8 years and not once has a "failed handbrake" that doesn't involve a snapped cable or snapped lever been anything but a lie.
Cameron Gomez
yes, found the lever fully up to clarify to everyone here
Jacob Cruz
>grammar fallacys XDDD
Bentley Perez
>a car that isn't trash You just called it an $60,000 piece of metal. My shitbox runs like a top and is totally expendable.
Jace Lopez
So what failed :^) can't blame the shop for your handbrake cables if they didn't touch them, or your handbrake lever snapping. If they fiddled with those, you could easily prove that their new parts failed. You left it off. Don't do it again. Lesson learned.
Ayden Hill
you should have made sure the handbrake worked lol
Josiah Ward
Post wreck.
Adam Sanders
>found the lever fully up >implying you had a brake fault which pulled the handbrake lever for you after you had already set the handbrake and left the car How far down can he dig
Joshua Turner
Rear ended four times in the last year
1- fast lane, rush hour, traffic slows to complete stop, i easily stop with 10' room in front, stupid cunt behind me nails rear end of work car. Get this- she is driving a rental already because her last accident 2 - stopped at a light, car behind me stops too. As soon as light turns green he fucking runs right into me while i am pulling away. 3 - stop n go traffic at university, fucker hits me from behind. 4 - omwh from work, fucking surfer runs into my ass stopped at a light. Sunblock all over face, board in honda accord. No license, moms car
Bad luck year...
Isaac Stewart
>HGVs and LCVs Wat are those?
Aiden Bell
had a pretty shit year last year
>Bought car >200k km on it not much wrong with it >fastforward mid way through last year >a fucking tree falls on it and almost totals the car does 4k worth of damage car only valued at 6500 >that gets fixed i am still $1200+ out of pocket because insurance rape in straya >Fastforward again to last month and my gearbox blows up >$4000+ for a decent built one Then ill be up for a $4000+ Engine rebuild around midway through this year and i only put 25k on this car ahah fuck
Andrew Howard
Heavy Goods Vehicles and Light Commercial Vehicles. Just giving some context as to why I feel qualified to call OP a liar
Cameron Hall
>reading comprehension level 0 fuck dude i envy your well running civic when I have a repaired car with 400+ N/A horse power and luxury :/ that's the good question. it's even possible that no new parts were involved, and it was just put back together poorly. but i'm highly curious to why it would fail after working like a charm, and work being done in the rear rotor area, as well as the muffler. but please, elaborate why I would release my handbrake on my driveway, and the car would take more than a minute to roll backwards
Colton Myers
You either didn't set the handbrake properly (your fault) or the cable snapped as you pulled the lever up and you didn't notice (your fault)
Brody Richardson
>no pics
Jayden Miller
I actually get this sometimes with my car, I'll set the handbrake and it will try to creep, one more click and it stops it. But my car is a 76 so...
Alexander Bailey
It's an E46 the handbrake has to be cranked all the way up to work. You left it off
Joshua Hill
>hah air brake trucks and automatic vans give me mechanic knowledge about OPs car Xd why would I try to dig? an anonymous malaysian rock trading board and youre implying i keep switching my story to sound like a school yard kid who knows what he's talking about
Oliver Cooper
where did I say it's an E46?
Jacob Hill
>an anonymous malaysian rock trading board and youre implying i keep switching my story to sound like a school yard kid who knows what he's talking about But no pics.
Jackson Sanchez
>E46 No one is dumb enough to pay $28k for an e46, must be something newer.
Logan Thompson
one sec lemme jack my car up and snap some pics for you
Easton Sullivan
A picture of the car retard.
Logan Davis
The relevant part was that it was fleet care, young padawan. As in, I am often tasked with finding out if drivers are lying about mitigating circumstances for their accidents to avoid being fired. You are lying. What's so unique about the handbrake on your car then, I've worked on drum handbrakes, disc handbrakes and the kind with the drum in the bell of the disc.
Evan Foster
yet your completely disregarding that it could've been loosened with out it being in gear. If it was never set properly when reassembled, it could've pushed it over the weight capacity, resulting in it being delayed in picking up momentum before it rolls fully back. and the idea of a hand brake is to hold up a vehicle, which you expect to be functional when repaired. think of the context in an argument, what reason do I have to lie on a completely anonymous board.
Caleb Phillips
complete junker.
Gavin Jackson
>have Mk4 Jetta >road tripping from Maryland to Rhode Island >brakes start to make cringe inducing noises once I reach New York >think nothing of it since I don't see the sensor light on the dash >does it again >pull over to check brakes >rotors are fucked >somehow sensor was misaligned from the pad and rotor and was hanging there >spent four hours changing the brakes in a parking lot
What the fuck happened, Veeky Forums? Did the previous owner make a fuck up?
Josiah Cruz
You're gonna need more than some lame theory.
Dominic Green
Because you're embarrassed, and rightly so
Isaac Reed
Jesus man where do you live?
Noah Lee
>buy $4000 2001 Silverado back in '13 >zero problems whatsoever >tires are offroad and are going bald faster than JUST >skip to last week >driving to buy a moter sickle >pulling to the right 15 minutes into 45 minute journey >pull over, PF brake is smoking like a brushfire >find wheel bearings in a cookie-crumb trail into the lot Worst thing I've ever had happen
Brody Brooks
>a car that isn't trash
wew lad might wanna check that again, it's cost you $60k in repairs and is still fucked.
My civic with 180k miles has literally never broken or been crashed because I'm not a retard.
Landon Cox
>fuck dude i envy your well running civic when I have a repaired car with 400+ N/A horse power and luxury :/ >when I have a repaired car with 400+ N/A horse power and luxury :/ >when I have a repaired car >when
:^)
Michael Morales
Maybe it's in euroland with extra tax on the taxes.
Justin Scott
>Drive shitbox Tiburon >Someone bumps me off the road, causing me to hit curb at just the right angle to bend everything (control arm, etc) >Was planning on buying a new car soon anyway, sell Tiburon as is since it was effectively totaled.
>Go fix up back up car up for a while >92 corolla with 300k miles >One afternoon later, ants are killed and the car starts in a glorious puff of white smoke >All is well for a week >Noticed strong smell of gasoline >Gas tank somehow ruptured, spewing gas everywhere. >Patched up tank and decided to get a new car asap
>Find Fiesta ST at an ok deal >Take it home. Love the car >Plan out budget for performance mawds, wash and wax it, show off to car enthusiast coworkers >CPO warranty will protect me from bad things I whisper to myself as I learned how to turn """""sport mode""""" on >3 days after buying someone runs a stop sign and hits my precious shitbox
All in the course of a month. I eventually got the ST fixed from insurance. Now it sits with a foglight that got knocked out from a gravel road.
Owen Carter
My first accident was the same as your first listed and it ended up totalling my first car. Years later, aka end of last year, your 2nd happened to me as my second ever accident I suppose I should be wary if stop and go from now on Pic related, Veeky Forums hates her but shes the light of my life
Julian Torres
is it fast
Samuel Carter
San diego.
Never been in an accident before this year FYI, driving since 99.
Jack Gomez
BLDC detected.
Connor Moore
This is more my fault than bad luck:
>just graduated high school >had been saving up for a car to restore >bought 1968 chevelle ss in rough condition but all there and running >454 / 3 speed >put a bunch more money in it >find the build sheet underneath the back seat >originally a Malibu with a slant six
I ended up selling it and nearly breaking even, but it was still an awful feeling. Considering I thought a lot of the cars value was that it was an all original, SS car.
Samuel Wright
Shit. Bad luck.
Sebastian Cooper
No FI Headers and tune. At most I have like 205-210 hp desu might as well trade in my car if I wanna put money to go fast I already have my low standards dream car so now my go fast dream will be a gt4 Ofc also in best color
Ayden Garcia
What if your neighbor dropped your handbrake? You should have checked for his prints.
Samuel Robinson
>not parking it in gear Retard.
Kayden Young
I don't think you understand how manuals work. I had an e92 m3, e90 330, and an e92 335xi (as well as an e46 325 and 330Ci)...and like all parking brakes, it requires some stank on it to actually work. OP is a retard and didn't set his ebrake.
Easton Lewis
The handbrake failed and it rolled forward. It wouldn't have rolled anywhere if it was in gear.
