Picture this, your wife leaves you out of nowhere for someone else, so you get yourself an e90 M3 to find some happiness, and then 5 months later it gets T-Boned by a Learner…
Ok so where to start.
I moved from Brisbane (Australia) down to a sick house in the Adelaide Hills (also Australia) in December, 2023.
Pretty quickly I found myself driving up and down this beautiful windy hill every day, twist, turns, dips, the lot. I knew I was missing something..
Having owned an F80 M3 and E39 M5, I knew what I needed to do..
I purchased myself a 2011 E90 M3 in the exact spec that I was after. It was perfect..
After flying to Melbourne, I promptly drove it back to Adelaide, enjoying every moment.
I spent 5 months enjoying driving it, any moment I could, until one morning, a P plater pulled out of a T intersection and I didn’t have enough time to stop while mashing the horn
Devo… 5 months to the day…
After some negotiating with the insurance company, I managed to get it back home
And I quickly got into it
Wasn’t looking good, but I got everything broken off
BMW quoted $3500 for a new rack, so I was praying that I wouldn’t have to go down that route
Luckily, I managed to find a wrecker in Sydney that had all of the mechanical parts I needed to get it on the ground again
At this point I was feeling a little more confident, and wanted to take stock of everything I had
Unfortunately, the front clip wouldn’t go on because the framerail was still bent (it still is, but we’ll get to that)
So I did some thinking and put together a gameplan
Hmm.
After some liberal elbow grease, I finally had some success
and voila
It looks like a car, but the other side tells another story
I managed to find myself a front guard, so that at least means it has all of the panels
And this brings us to January this year, where I put it on a truck back to Brisbane while I get my life sorted and get this divorce sorted
I haven’t had any money to spend on this, and I’m not a mechanic by trade, but have worked on cars my whole adult life, so seeing it drive out of the garage and onto a tow truck was one of those moments of like… ‘You did this’
The car got trucked to Brisbane and I couldn’t afford a Tow, so I opted for an Unregistered Vehicle Permit (like $60 through Dot) and skeeted it 40 mins to my mates house
That drive was powerful… Dashboard lit up like a christmas tree, but the car made it after everything…
And this is where I’m at
Once the Divorce is sorted, I’ll put some time and money into getting this all ridgy didge.
Not sure if these are the kind of reddit stories people are after, I’m kind of new to this whole thing.
Has anyone else here had a project car help them through tough times?
Edit: Giving the people what they want
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