I am cursed
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I feel you on owning a car that is a bitch to get parts for. There are about twice as many Audi V8's as the M5 you have, but probably more of them are off the road due to the trans... Super suck.
Good luck with the repair. Hope you can get the guys insurance to cover it.
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thrash;292869 wrote:
nah, it's the E28. You know, the one with the big-ass crash bumpers due to federal laws [that the pathfinder hopped right over on the way to smashing the back of the car]The cop didn't write a report because the damage was "minor". I tried to explain that only 2000 of these cars ever existed, and that was 20 years ago, and finding parts can be a real expensive problem. He didn't care, and he got mad at me for having the nerve to argue with him, who has "been doing this for a long time". I forgot that contempt of cop is the #1 crime in America.
It wasn't until I got the car back in my garage that I realized that one of the rear doors has to be slammed open & shut
Is insurance going to do anything about it??
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thrash;292869 wrote:
nah, it's the E28. You know, the one with the big-ass crash bumpers due to federal laws [that the pathfinder hopped right over on the way to smashing the back of the car]The cop didn't write a report because the damage was "minor". I tried to explain that only 2000 of these cars ever existed, and that was 20 years ago, and finding parts can be a real expensive problem. He didn't care, and he got mad at me for having the nerve to argue with him, who has "been doing this for a long time". I forgot that contempt of cop is the #1 crime in America.
It wasn't until I got the car back in my garage that I realized that one of the rear doors has to be slammed open & shut
Good luck getting the insurance to pay without a police report...
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same here, no police report no problem so far for me. But i spsoe i could see how they wouldn't like to payout without one.
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The officer may not have made a accident report, But he did make a Police report, something the insurance might look into, but shouldn't balk at, Because there is proof that it was reported. Good luck.
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It depends on the insurance company and what the person says to their company but I have had a hell of a time dealing with a couple accidents at work that our guys have been in when there are no police reports. Hell, I even am dealing with one where the trooper stopped, gave our guy his card with a report number on it and now the office in St. Paul says that they have no report with that number. Fuck accidents.
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I think the point of this story is buy cars with outstanding crash ratings. And yes, cops posing as experts in what damage has been done to a car is ridiculous. And yes they really need to realize at some point in time they didn't go to the tech school for body shop, it was for LAW ENFORCEMENT.
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Outstanding Crash ratings are great and all, but that really only means they are good at passing the Tests for Car Crash ratings.
Honestly, a lot of people argue this, but if the American crash saftey test has been around for years, is the standard for saftey comparison, and doesn't change a whole lot year to year, would you not design the car to pass the test specifically? Because that usually happens.
Either way, though, whether the M5 is good or not in a crash isn't the point, the point is that its parts are righteously expensive, and even if the insurance company totals the car due to obscene parts costs, he may not be able to repair it. I don't know what its worth, but I'd assume 4-8k or so...
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i like the iihgs.org crash tests, as they publish the raw data from every test.
The M5 is a 28 year old design at this point. In the day, it was extremely good. Now I'd say its only as good as a bottom-tier new car, safety wise. It has thin A and B pillars compared to anything recent. Great for visibility, not as good for side impact hits.
Random E28 crash movie:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu16v2Ey59I[/ame]
Note that the front glass and safety cell of the E28 are fine.The damage to my car is visibly minimal. If i fixed the taillight, nobody would know that it had been hit unless they got a bit closer, but the panel gaps all around the trunk and rear doors are screwed.
I got an estimate this morning and it is of course quite a bit more than $1k. The other guys' adjuster is coming by to look at it this afternoon.
As far as what E28 M5's are running for... search on auto-trader for 1988 BMW M5s. Mine has 130,000 miles.... which constitutes "low miles" for a 21 year old car, and is lower mileage than many of the auto-trader cars.
The car has done a few hundred laps of BIR and chased down MUCH faster cars, and it has leather everything and working R12 A/C.
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