Post a pic of your car being towed!

hansoloTT · 10-21-2014, 09:49 PM

Dead battery after car wash.

hongsc · 10-21-2014, 10:22 PM

I think there's enough pics to have a calendar for Towed Away Bimmers of 2015.

gds52 · 10-25-2014, 04:42 PM

Although I hate it but interesting thread

farb · 10-25-2014, 05:00 PM

question to all lowered car being towed, how were you able to get the car on the flatbed without ripping your bumper/lip off?

bimmette · 10-25-2014, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by gds52

Although I hate it but interesting thread

Hahaha!

bimmette · 10-25-2014, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by farb

question to all lowered car being towed, how were you able to get the car on the flatbed without ripping your bumper/lip off?

There's a couple tips already mentioned. Tell the tow truck company ahead of time to send a flatbed and 2x4s.

ChuckBMW3 · 10-25-2014, 06:02 PM

My old e90 - serpentine belt snapped

EZ_TUR90 · 10-25-2014, 06:27 PM

This was my previous 335i. Fuel pump went out as I was driving out to meet the guy who just purchased the car.

bimmette · 10-25-2014, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by EZ_TUR90

This was my previous 335i. Fuel pump went out as I was driving out to meet the guy who just purchased the car.

Hahahah!! Did the guy still end up buying the car?

EZ_TUR90 · 10-25-2014, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by bimmette

Hahahah!! Did the guy still end up buying the car?

Yup. We had signed docs already, so he was kinda stuck with it. He wasn't too upset.

mythek · 10-25-2014, 07:34 PM

bimmette you started this thread to scare off the potential future e90 owners?? lol

in all seriousness this is a great thread...for those that have to get your car towed due to having a flat....you need to invest in a slime flat repair kit!

SneakyDeeky · 10-25-2014, 07:53 PM

Piston #6 let loose and put a hole through the block...

... that was not a fun day

, but the car's been great since then. Ask me why I don't use methanol anymore.

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=807540

08TUNDRA · 10-25-2014, 09:01 PM

The three hour drive home when i first bought bought her with our car already weighted down we had to add on my car with it.

bimmette · 10-25-2014, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by mythek

bimmette you started this thread to scare off the potential future e90 owners?? lol

in all seriousness this is a great thread...for those that have to get your car towed due to having a flat....you need to invest in a slime flat repair kit!

Hahaha!! No, not to scare...more like, "inform". Hehe!

Actually, I just think it's funny that we all keep these pics.

And we can all sit back and laugh now, but at the time? Grrrrrrrr

NEFARIOUS · 10-25-2014, 09:46 PM

Water pump... I was on my way to a date with a really cute girl, but everything decided to work against me: It was 104°F, everything was already hitting the fan since I started the day being woken up at 5AM on a Saturday for something trivial at work that I can discuss on Monday and unable to go back to sleep, so I was assed out (but I've enabled DND on my phone since then)... Then a paid parking lot ripped me off and I even had to go back and head to an ATM (I pulled in at the normal rate but then they had an event down the street and decided to charge double), the dry cleaner misplaced and almost lost my clothes, and the car wash took forever so I had to haul ass AND I was in a bad mood.

So then 5 minutes after I spent what felt like half an hour in Downtown LA street traffic, WOT onto the freeway, *BLUNNGGGG*... If you look closely, you can even see the water runoff from desperately trying to pour distilled water in it to hope it was just because of the WOT.

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What's funny is how many of us retain photos and video of our car being towed onto a flatbed...[truncated]
...This kind of thread also reminds me of why I will never lower my car....EVER...[truncated]...I honestly don't know how any of you do it.

For me, it's because it happened 3 weeks ago and I actually posted it on FB so it was right there. I just haven't lowered it yet (but I plan to), but with an xi it has to be on a flatbed regardless so I kinda had no choice... But either way I do see why I should just leave it as-is. Not as bad as my Toyota Solara though; that thing was a tractor before lowering it!

Frozen Silver F80 · 10-26-2014, 03:26 AM

2 flat tires

Dark_Knight_335 · 10-26-2014, 09:50 AM

Yeah I don't know about the whole lowered thing- even with 2 x 4's the front end of my m-sport clacked mildly across the aluminum flatbed for the first 3 feet or so- it was quite terrifying.

I mean, if I didn't have so many scrapes underneath my bumper I would've actually cared LOL

e92AW10 · 10-26-2014, 10:33 AM

Hit a pothole 2 bent wheels 1 flat tire I hate north east roads

DoctoRx · 10-26-2014, 01:37 PM

I managed to avoid the photos...but not the tow. Woke up to an empty parking spot this morning. Glad to see there's so many people here to 'inform' new owners of what to expect to go out first.

bimmette · 10-26-2014, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by DoctoRx

I managed to avoid the photos...but not the tow. Woke up to an empty parking spot this morning. Glad to see there's so many people here to 'inform' new owners of what to expect to go out first.

Hahaha!
Aw, no photo for you

DoctoRx · 10-26-2014, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by bimmette

Hahaha!
Aw, no photo for you

Nope

Though I was very pleased to see when I got there that the tow company owner pulled the flatbed out and 2x4s just for me so he wouldn't take the car and leave the bumper.

bimmette · 10-26-2014, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DoctoRx

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Originally Posted by bimmette

Hahaha!
Aw, no photo for you

Nope

Though I was very pleased to see when I got there that the tow company owner pulled the flatbed out and 2x4s just for me so he wouldn't take the car and leave the bumper.

Haha! Well, that was very thoughtful of him at least!

Hmm that reminds me. Once when my car was towed away to a lot, it was given back with the hood roundel pried off! Grrr.

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