In my opinion it was the crash that caused your failure, so it was relevant to the question. Looking at the photo again, the issues could be unrelated.

What is this damper you speak of? We don't call it that in the states. Are you talking about the belt tensioner?

Feel free to attack my response but considering you have 6 total posts in this thread, 5 yours, and 1 mine, I wouldn't start berating members just yet.

__________________
2002 X5 4.6is - Titanium Silver / Black Alcantara - Dinan Stage 2 - Bilstein/Eibach - Brembo BBK ----SOLD---
1993 318i - Brilliantrot / Tan - bone stock daily driver