Here's the aftermath. $11,000 in damages.

 

Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.sorry man,atleast ur still alive.Good Thing that.!!!!

 

Damn...sorry about your car....I love that model 5-series....but glad your okay!!

 

Cory what did you go and do that for? JK Glad to hear your ok

 

Wow dude that sucks, glad to hear you are alright. Looks to me like you rear ended a SUV and then got hit again? What exactly happened here?

 

Driver Error?????

 

man! im sorry...... ! some day you'll get a better one!

 

poor M62...

 

send me the hid's and projectors if they haven't been damaged.

 

damn id be so pissed i love those 540i 's!!!!!!!!! , if u part it out let me get ur headlights for retro fit

 

That's not totaled! Nothing a pair of plyers and hammers can't fix! J/K glad to hear you're okay! What's the next ride you are getting?

 

man, that sucks

I saw the first pics and thought that was the only damage, then I saw the pics from the front

glad you're alright man

 

wow that sucks cars/parts can be replaced but people can't.. good thing ur still around. btw, did the airbags go off????? seemed like a kind of low-speed accident.

 

the headlights are obviously damaged...especially the drivers side one...

but i'm sure some desperate 4th genner will still ****** them up and scurry away with them into a dark ally as quickly as possible.....

 

Look at those side panels, not even touched! Those german cars are amazing, BMW's and mercedes do great in accidents. Any other car and those side panels would look crumpled.

 

SO what happend to it? Rear ended and pushed into the car in front?

 

omg...can we say ouch? glad youre ok : ]

 

What happened was I was sitting at a complete stop, with a Jeep Wrangler in front of me, and a Cavalier behind me. Some doctor in new Dodge Dakota was doing 45 MPH and wasn't looking, and slammed into the Cavalier. He didn't even touch the brake. The Cavalier then hit me, and pushed me into the back of the Wrangler. It wasn't a hard slam for me, it just kinda felt like fast, smooth acceleration, like a Whooosh. The airbags didn't even deploy. Everyone was ok, the lady in the Cavalier got a nice gash on her leg, and was a bit shaken up, but other than that, not a scratch on anyone. Funnt thing is, the guy that hit her in the Dakota was a Doctor, and the guy in front of the Wrangler was a Cop that just got off work! It worked out pretty well. Just waiting to see what Insurance is going to be doing. I will most likely be fixing the 540i myself at my shop, which will save $5-6K and also be an opportunity for the M-Tech Bumpers as well as some bolt-ons.

 

dude, if your bimmer looks like that, than i can only imagine what the crapalier looks like.... of course we can all be happpy there is one less crapalier on the road..but thats another story..

 

good thing the air bags didnt deploy! phew...what i mean is, a car is never the same once the air bags have deployed and all...But all that matters is that youre ok though

 

Haha! Too bad the lady wasn't a lawyer! +1 on the luckiness that airbags didn't deploy or that's gonna cost you some major $$$.

 

The plans are: I'm going to be fixing the car myself over time at my shop. It will probably take awhile, cause I have lots of other work to do, but I'll slowly make some progress at it. I decided to go with the M-Tech bumpers, black M5 grills, black/carbon fiber BMW roundels, and I'm going to be painting the roof black.

 

Too bad man, those cars are awesome. Glad to see you're ok though.

 

I dunno man, the faux CF-roof look?

I say the rest will probably be enough contrast to keep it interesting...

 

Having a cop there was key, no one can bs the story. Glad to hear you're ok. +1 on the M bumpers!

 

Doc hits car, car hits Mechanic, Mech hits jeep, jeep hits cop?
Now if only there was an insurance agent somewhere in the mix...

 

That's what the lady in the Crapalier was.

Doc hits Insurance agent, Insurance agent his Mechanic, Mechanic hits Jeep, Jeep hits cop.......

Problems solved.

 

Sucks man, you're lucky the car was made well and you came out ok.

 

Damn dude thats bad.

 

the front end makes me ache

 

Making Some Slow Progress.

 

wow...i dont see how its totaled like the title of this thread suggests.. i mean it looks pretty good.

 

this thread still makes me sad.

 

On the way home today traffic was backed up like crazy. I am on the highway and see a accident on the left with 3 fire trucks and police cars. I drive by very slow and see a BRAND new 750LI smashed. There was a 3 car pileup with the 750LI in the back with the front end smashed. It mad me sad.

 

That bumper failed miserably at what it is intended for.

 

I don't think the damage is bad at all. A crumpled hood, grille, broken headlight tabs, and some other minor stuff. The rear is also bent up, but can be fixed. $11k and deemed totaled only because the damn parts are so expensive. If that was a Maxima, it'd be a fixer.

 

ouch! i love 5 series and it hurts to look at the totaled ones!

 

please tell me you are buying that car back from the insurance company!!, you can fix that easily just by buying the parts on ebay you wont spend more than $2k (tops) to fix the damage on this car.


edti: ^ thats if you still owe any money on the car. if not, is 70% profit!

 

^^ not if the frames bent at all

 

Good luck with the rear quarters man. My eyes aren't playing tricks on me right? There's some damage back there?