Dents: War Wound Gallery...

[artguy]

Share some of your war wound picts and stories...

FYI...All of these happened BEFORE I owned the car.

The jack spot is below this so I believe the PO did this one with the jack positioned too close to the door.
http://www.captive1.com/mrk/dent_side.jpg

This one boggles my mind.
It is just below the trunk door when its closed.
I have no idea how the PO even did this,
nothing else around it was touched!
http://www.captive1.com/mrk/dent_trunk.jpg

This is my "favorite" (...one to hate)!
The PO must have left a tool on the engine and then closed the hood.
The dent is pushed up through the hood.
http://www.captive1.com/mrk/dent_hood_v.jpg
http://www.captive1.com/mrk/dent_hood_h.jpg

[Ferret]

Crap, now I'm going to have to find the photo of my 535i sport that had an argument with a 40's british post box...

[Ross]

I'd post about my '89 but not enough bandwidth.

[repenttokyo]

My car when i bought it:

[repenttokyo]

And my car now:

[artguy]

Nice Job! It's amazing how great these cars can look with a little love.


And my car now:

[repenttokyo]

yeah, I drove it in the purchased condition for 5 months before I the snow was gone and I couldn't hide the damage anymore.

[Ross]

Care to borrow my car?

[Nick.Hay]

Good work!!

Man, she'd had a rough life til you came along!!

Glad to see you took the time and effort, not to mention the gamble on such a mistreated E34, to bring her back to life!!

[repenttokyo]

Care to borrow my car?

hehe


Good work!!

Man, she'd had a rough life til you came along!!

Glad to see you took the time and effort, not to mention the gamble on such a mistreated E34, to bring her back to life!!

Thanks! Actually, contrary to appearances, it hadn't been mistreated! - i bought it from the son of the original owner, who was a student and had had the car about a year, and couldn't afford to repair the body damage. Someone backed into him and he hit a mail box avoiding a pothole, to do all that nastiness. When I first saw the damage, I instantly thought "mistreated car", but then he brought out the service records which dated back to the date of purchase, even with oil change receipts, and I breathed a sigh of relief. It had 353 000 km's on it when I bought it, and now it's above 377 000 with no issues - knock on wood. The car is also rust free with a MINT interior. I really lucked out.

This board has certainly taught me a lot about these cars and I enjoy doing most of the work myself. I couldn't stand to see those dents on the car any longer. The entire side was sprayed, and the front bumper was rebuilt and re sprayed, and I replaced all the necessary trim. It's a work in progress!

[winfred]

****!
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/26/427251/fugged%20e30/dammit1.jpg
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/26/427251/fugged%20e30/squished-towers.jpg

[Alexlind123]

Share some of your war wound picts and stories...

FYI...All of these happened BEFORE I owned the car.

This is my "favorite" (...one to hate)!
The PO must have left a tool on the engine and then closed the hood.
The dent is pushed up through the hood.
http://www.captive1.com/mrk/dent_hood_v.jpg
http://www.captive1.com/mrk/dent_hood_h.jpg

I dont want to make anyone cry, but that same thing happened to my hood the weekend before last, except maybe even a touch worse. A motor mount broke, allowing the engine to torque upwards driving the fan into the hood. At least mine already had a dent or two. Eh, i will buy a new hood and get it painted. Im just worried about non-OEM hoods being thin.

[t.wak]

Mine has a couple of little outwards dents like that from when the radiator fan decided to try and escape... Not very noticable though.

Other than that, just a trolley dent.. Needless to say I don't park my car in the same spot while at work.

[Morgenster]

Heh, I have the exact same dents as the OP at pretty much the same locations albeit slightly less severe. Apart from the one on the trunk though.
I bought mine with a shattered front bumper and a broken rear bumper skirt. Those have been replaced. The dents have been massaged back into a reasonable and hardly noticeable place. Still need to work on the paint finish.
The PO was a bit of tinkerer with not much knowledge on these cars.

[artguy]

"Ross' Rentals" ... ;) LOL


Care to borrow my car?

[timandbim]

...p.o.'d at the PO...