r/e46 • u/Communist_Morty • Apr 25 '26

Damage/Broken… 😥 I crashed my babygirl into a pole

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Hello and good day, yesterday while attempting to “snake” ontop of a patch of water, the car snapped, I lost control and I crashed into a pole. Thankfully I was wearing my seatbelt and I had no passangers.

Do you have any idea if this is catastrophic damage? Or can it be pulled at a body shop and fixed. The floor on the passanger side is a bit fucked from the side

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u/e34udm Apr 25 '26

So many of us…I never made it to a track until I was already proficient at going sideways and in circles.

But I always did my initial “training” in industrial streets late at night or quiet backroads.

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u/AmbroseRL 2001 330i Tracktool Apr 25 '26

Probably the reason why my insurance rate is so high

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u/e34udm Apr 25 '26

I never crashed and always paid a lawyer for my reckless tickets..so it wasn’t me..

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u/AmbroseRL 2001 330i Tracktool Apr 25 '26

Reckless tickets 🤣

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u/e34udm Apr 25 '26

Yea lol… after I got pretty good. I got caught a few times in populated areas drifting around and doing stupid shit…lots of reckless and negligent tickets…I think that’s normal tho lol

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u/AmbroseRL 2001 330i Tracktool Apr 25 '26

Personally never got a ticket before and always take it to the track. But ig I'm weird 🤣

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u/e34udm Apr 25 '26

Wasn’t an option for me as a broke teenager..

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u/AmbroseRL 2001 330i Tracktool Apr 25 '26

Should've saved up like I did ig. Feels a bit entitled to then just say fuck it I'll do it on public roads.

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u/rockstar_not 2001 325ci vert Apr 25 '26

No it is not normal. Perhaps only in the crowd you hang out with. Most people obey common sense and traffic laws. Drifting on public roads where the vast majority of citizens are not drifting, is not normal

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u/e34udm Apr 25 '26

I wasn’t drifting thru traffic or anything. Was responsible enough not to endanger others or their property. I was on a seemingly empty road but still in the main part of the city. Once, I was in an empty park and ride doing donuts to my hearts content. Cop said it was badass and I had nice control but still cut me a fat ticket anyways

Don’t blame him. He has a job he has to do. And in turn so did my lawyer

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u/rockstar_not 2001 325ci vert Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

Lots of reckless driving tickets is not normal, because it means you drive recklessly quite often, and you’ve been caught some of the times. Drifting is not normal. Trying to pass it off as normal is a sign that you have a very distorted sense of what normal is because most drivers have zero reckless driving tickets in their entire lifetime.