Has anyone ever flipped an e30?

[whiltebeitel]

I spun mine on the freeway in the rain. Nearly bald Azenis, meet standing water on the edge of the road at 70 mph. I missed the cars around me, crossed 4 lanes, got off at the next exit, and promptly shit myself.


The "shit myself" part is for dramatic effect, but the rest was truth.

[Kman]

this one time.....




at band camp

[xLibelle]

not an e30 story
when i was in highschool, i jepordized 4 of my friends lives on a dirt road i didnt know so well with speeds at night that shouldnt have been.

a blind turn came up and the 84 mercedes 300 somehow managed to go straight over a dirt road ditch completely sideways and end up with a 360 through a guys yard, past his house, coming to a stop in the back yard.

only when the car stopped moving did everyone stop talking and realize how abnormal that event was, being as smooth as it went. ...or as dumb as i was driving.

times like those, i appologize the most to my friends for being immature.





i came back a few days later still in disbelief that we didnt flip to see why.
if you know dirt roads in the south, you know its a violent ditch, left and right, 15 feet appart. we must have been hauling ass. i missed two pine trees and a friggin house all while doing at least 1 360 and skidding 50-70 feet

[86espowa]

you can do 80 mph in a early model 318?

lol jk.

crazy shit.

[PiercedE30]

HOLy SHIT!!

[Hick]

Fine, stories...

On my way to work in 2003 i was hauling ass around a turn here in dublin ohio that goes to the right, under a bridge and back to the left with another right onto the main road. It was damp and the suggested speed is something like 40mph. I took it at around 75 or 80. Once the road began to merge out of the complex the back end stepped out then caught, went straight. I went through a small tree/bush, between a large tree and telephone pole and hit a huge rock. Went nose up, hit the ground after about 20 feet with the rock under me. The rock caused the car to flip, slid about another 10-15 feet, hit another tree and landed on the wheels. The car began to roll backward in the parking lot i came to rest in and was out before the car stopped moving.

Sprained back, busted molar.

[Jscotty]

Awww.. come on.. 23 replies- I just knew that there would be more stories. There is a thread on here entitled something to the effect of "how safe are our cars" or "how safe is the E30" and in the discussion every other post was someone giving their account of how they either rolled the car or flipped it end over end as an example of proving how safe the car is.

[mtechnik]

For that same reason i'd want to continue driving a sedan model !!!

[DaveSmed]

There's an idea of how hard a t-bone needs to be to flip one, and a REAL good idea as to how strong that roof is. Just about no B-pillar and it didnt crush. I still miss that 84 e. (figures I drive a cabrio now.....)

[DaveSmed]

Oh and the roof structure is extremely strong, didn't crush at all even with a B pillar knocked out .Let me look for a pic.....

[SchnellerVert]

Kblyes or how ever his name is rolled his over on an embankment.

[86espowa]

I was driving on dirt, slid hit a little trench then a curb or dirt, got air and landed. going fully sideways into the little trench and into the curb of dirt.

didnt do a damn thing.

though you can flip an E30. just takes a helluva lot of everything being right for it to work out right.

[atomic]

hey also do not drive like an idiot on the roads and be the tester for any of us because we dont want to talk about this guy who flipped his shit is no longer here

[atomic]

I know a guy who knows a guy that had an uncle...

who knows this guy that has a aunt who knows a model who.....

[DaveSmed]

A real hard T-bone will do the trick. Bends the floorpan down.