My 325is is totalled....

[Tree25]

I'm going to tow the car to my shop for a tear down and save it. We have BMW certified state of the art equipment. Almost anything is repairable, you have to figure out if it's worth the time or money.

[bmwstudent]

Thanks for posting that pic of the deployed air bag. It no doubt helped to save your life. I'm helping my brother with his 3rd e30, a 90 325i air bag car. He wants to remove the air bag steering wheel and replace it with his wheel from his current 86 e30. Hopefully this will help change his mind. Good luck, I hope your ok.

[Stanley Rockafella]

I'd be interested to see if it's repairable.

glad to see you made it out alright. I know the one thing I always fear with my e30 is an accident. Not for the sake of the car, but for the sake of me and my passenger!

[Vivek]

Not to annoyingly push a sorta insignificant point, but how much would you say the airbag helped vs hurt? I've always heard that people don't want to get hit with an e30 airbag, but I'd like to hear something backed by experience.

[JinormusJ]

It's all a matter of driving position; the further you are from the airbag, the safer your impact will be. The closer your position is, the more detrimental/fatal the airbag will be in the case of deployment.

I'm personally against my airbag because of this; those who are taller/enjoy a more lax driving position would/should do well in keeping them if safety is a concern.

[Vivek]

So is it better to just not have one at all?

[JinormusJ]

There have been a lot of studies since airbags have been mandatory to be installed in cars; mostly, they were installed because of a progressive Ralph Nader crusaide that "people don't wear their seatbelts".

All that halabaloo is moop for saying if your wearing your seatbelt you shouldn't need an airbag; as long as you maintain a rigid and alert driving position and know how to brace for collisions. Most people however, are pootering their Priuai around or leaning back ganstaaar fordaswag and are impeding on their own personal safety by not maintaining an alert/upright position, and they need a secondary passive collision protection system

It's exactly the reason my dad has back problems now. He sits at a 45 degree and ha or his whole life. He got into collision at 45mph hitting someone going 30mph opposit way into a turn and he slid under the seat belt because he sits almost laying on his back (don't ask me how he does it, I still don't know). Had it not been for the airbag, my dad wouldn't be here today. However, would he maintaining a rigid 80-90 degree angle, the seatbelt would have done its job and stopped him before even needing the airbag.

However; we are simply talking wheel airbags. Side and rear airbags are an incredibly smart progression as they are less likely to damage the vital crash areas (brain/head and spine) upon deployment



However, I'm glad your safe and sound OP. Yet another r3ver alive to tell the tale. Sucks about the car though.. She looked amazing :|

[Cephas]

dude, I woulda chose option B. At least that way you have the possibility of avoiding the truck accident by causing everyone else to freak out and slam on their brakes.

Worst. Option. Ever. If he had done that and hit someone, more than one person would likely be dead at that speed and he would be at fault. Always choose the collision over going into oncoming traffic...that's simply common sense.

OP. F@ck dude. What a piece of shit for turning into you. I seriously think that people are becoming far too selfish with the way they drive these days. Especially the fatties in their SUV's. So sorry for your loss.

[QUKBMER]

I'm going to tow the car to my shop for a tear down and save it. We have BMW certified state of the art equipment. Almost anything is repairable, you have to figure out if it's worth the time or money.

Sorry for your loss :(. That is what i like to here, is you taking it back to the shop and fixing it .:up: I bought a 90 325i 5 speed for 380.00 not that bad and put a new hood,bumper,fender,valance, grills and headlight assy . I didnt straighten the core support (driveway job) and turned it into a rack car. You need to save that car,it looked soooooooooo clean !!!!!

[e30edward]

Sorry to hear man! That looked so clean! Glad you're okay.

[idanity]

glad your not injured, but check to ensure there isnt any lasting injuries.

sad to see another e30 look like that....u sure its totalled ?
it could still make a good track car (or drift car)

[HarryPotter]

Seriously, I need one basket weave, let me know if you want to sell one.

[CrusherCurtis]

I would have fell out into the street "My neck, my back!"

[VAE30FTW]

How do insurance companies value Classic clean E30's like this one? I'm thinking about going with classic car insurance and getting an appraisal so I can get what it's worth if something like this were to happen.

[glacierbluee30]

I feel you, just got my 325 out of the shop the same day yours got hit for the first time to drive it after buying it and some motherfucker passed a red light and my dad crashed into him. Feels like shit, but at least you're okay. Cars come and go..