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Shot from inside behind where the right hand light mount would be...my alarm was in that round hole and ended up in my battery bay (I moved the battery to the boot a few weeks ago)

Engine came so far forward that it smashed into my radiator fan cover thingie. (im sure it has a name)

Bottom shot of the shattered engine mount

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Short story short I wasnt watching the road and ploughed a honda. This is what I did to my baby Just want to know, from those shots, is it worth getting it fixed, or investigated further, or should I just cut my losses and move on? Any input is appreciated! Thanks

Pwned...again =|

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Hey Guys, I crashed my bmw into the back of a honda (Blasted hondas!!!!) and now, among a vareity of other problems, the car doesnt stay in 1st or 3rd gear. Now, I managed to shatter an engine mount in the crash, and the engine slipped about an inch or two forward off the mount and was basically hanging in mid air. I managed to jack the engine back up onto the mount, but it is still about 3 CM off from exact position. When I crashed, I felt the gearbox move forward. Am I screwed, or does it just need to be repostioned? If I hold the car in gear, it works fine, but it slips out if im not moving. No horrible sounds, though. (I had to drive it off the road) Any help would be appreciated.

I'm also trying to get rid of my system: AMD Athlon 64 3500 (Socket 939) 2GB DDR400 A8NE MoBo (Asus) NOT SLI DVD Writer / Reader ATI PCI-E x850 Pro GFX (Asus) 1x 36GB Raptor (10,000 RPM) - SATA 2x 80GB Samsung's (RAID 0) - SATA RAID Aftermarket Arctic Cooling on CPU and GFX OCZ Powerstream PSU Lian Li Case (One of the sides is a tad munted - attacked with dremmel) Green Neons (Oh Yeah) All cabled correctly Quake 4 (Legal) AOE3 (Legal) Win XP Pro ("legal") Overall hell quiet Less than 8 months old, still under warrenty (Except Munted Case) PM For price - going cheap for bimmer owners - then going on TM. (funding bimmer so for a good cause!)

FIXED IT WHAT THE *#YH_FH HELL I have a large hexagonal gold plated device under my bonnet that has about 5 inputs from the engine and one really big cable that runs to the battery - installed it when i upgraded the audio cable to Welding wire. Yeah well the cap for that came off, and it was banging on the battery holder...which explained the freaky loss of everythign while driving...and explains why it worked after checking everything and moving the battery...then while driving it fell back onto the chasis again. As for the freaky noises and lack of power - not sure, something to do with half the spark plugs not firing or something - at any rate, i just drove it hard, and it went really well - or as well as a 1.6 goes... Man. What a hassle. Will the pwnage ever end? Maybe I should change my username > Thanks for those of you who offered help! P.S. Gus ill get your hook back to you sometime in the weekend if you're around

Hmm - nope - I might go do that now. I can just swap it with another to test with?

Went over the plugs, air sensor, not sure about the engine sensors - thanks for the tow hook btw I'll just have to pay to get someone to look at it =|

well...I replaced the fuel pump, and after alot of dead batteries the car now starts. When it idles, its horrible - as if its only firing on 3 cylinders (bear in mind i only have 4) - the engine rocks like mad and it makes a horrible noise. When I try and rev it, it almost dies, and sloooowly clunks up to about 2k revs, and starts making like a compressed air in a tube being released noise...kinda like a potatoe gun...and the exhaust does the same...and we hear the most horrible noises comming out of the air intake... Anyone know what that is? do I even want to know?

Pretty Interested - sent you PM

Hmm makes sence...I'm almost convinced the issue is fuel based, as all these problems occured when I ran to the very last drop in my tank...(yeah yeah its bad I know but I was lazy)

Well I went back to the poor thing and it's dead as a doornail. No idea what the hell is going on. Someone tried to jemmy the lock and slimjim the thing too...dumbasses never heard of the bmw factory deadlock (thanks Andy). So no-one has any idea what might be causing these problems? It turns over fine just wont fire.

Nope not sorted. Where ya at? Flick me a PM with the info

Also if anyone has a facelift bumper attachment for towing I could borrow / buy that would be greatly appreciated. I'm fairly certain i'll return to a partically broken into car tomorrow, so will want to tow the remainders.

Nope battery is charging fine...I had the sterio going when the car started to cut out and it was fine. When the car stopped, i tried to start it and got a 4 or 5 good 15 seconds of turning over before giving up.

So the car stalls, and wont start up again - I put it down to the fact there's no fuel in the car (as it had been running low for a while). We get some gas in it, and it still wont start. We try and try but nothing starts it, jumping it, pushing it, nothing, it turns over nicely just wont fire. Check all the sparkplugs etc. etc. nothing. So we figure maybe the fuel pump died, since we cant hear it running when the engine is starting...so I get my spare pump and just plug the power / sensor in and try start the car to see if we can hear that pump run when starting - nothing. So we figure it probably isnt the pump and we plug the old one back in. While my mate is plugging back in the fuel pump i went over all the fuses just in case. By this time we've given up, but I give it another go and wtf it just starts like nothing happened. So we're all 'finally' and drive off. half way home, as im drawing though 3rd gear, the car starts dropping randomly while accelorating...its just like vrrrrrrrrrrrrr...nothing....rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...nothing...rrrrrrrrrrr and the rev's are all over the place, the needle is going nuts. then the car just cuts out at about 60kph and makes chokeing noises out the exhaust as I coast to the side of the road, and low and behold, the car is back to its old wont-start antics, and is now currently parked in some dodgy side street in mt eden. Any ideas?

Thinking of shadowlining...not sure. Someone photoshop it... Heaps of work left though, there isnt any covers next to the front speakers, glovebox is out, wires everywhere... Just got tints done, looks so much better. Proper alarm installed too. And you're right Gus, I did enjoy it :mosh:

Oh, completely. It's truely nice to drive / be in now, and you dont have metal bits poking into your bum!

You can buy properly manufactored lights for the E30 with Angel Eyes in them from Ebay, but they range from 200 - 300 US - havent see them anywhere else.

Was just about to say that She's still for sale