My daughter crashed her bimmer - Page 6

Michelle · #51 01-08-2009, 04:30 PM

It's coming along great, Alain! The new angel eyes look nice, too! Especially for the price!

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Dannyell · #52 01-08-2009, 04:39 PM

It looks great congrats on your progress !!!

UCrewX5 · #53 01-08-2009, 04:40 PM

Looking good, Alain!! Can't wait to see the final pics. I sure hope your daughter appreciates everything you are doing for her

ncx · #54 01-08-2009, 04:47 PM

Great work. Very professional results so far.

crosvs · #55 01-08-2009, 05:04 PM

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Allow me to give another point of view..

I say you fix all the damage, replace the parts, give your daughter a kiss on the forehead and teach her the oldest lesson in life, "shit happens"...

After all, she's in college, working to get good grades and spending her spare time trying to make some bucks to keep her head a float.

I was in a couple small accidents when I was young and my dads philosophy was, accidents happen and he didn't want me to worry about it. As long as I wasn't being blatantly stupid: drunk driving, driving reckless, etc. He was always just happy I wasn't hurt and took care of it. He didn't want me burdened while I was struggling to make grades, etc.

So while I understand you trying to instill a sense of value into your daughter, I say, give the kid a break. If she wasn't in college or didn't seem to have any sense of responsibility I would argue differently...

Pay for it all, tell your daughter you want nothing less than a B on her report card for the next semester and move on...

B

TOTALLY

and to add to that:

With all due respect sir -- I don't pretend to know what it's like to be a parent -- accidents DO happen, especially with new drivers.

Unless she's a typically irresponsible, careless girl, I'd say put this behind the both of you and be grateful she was driving a BMW and came away unhurt.

Reminds me of an argument I had several times with some people who said they'd only get old used cars for their child's "first car." I said why? They said because new drivers are more likely to have an accident. I said, "Precisely: isn't that why they should have a new(ish), safer car with modern safety features rather than an old clunker that is a death trap?" They said, yes, but if you're in a more dangerous car you're more likely to drive safely. The point is, this is incorrect: statistically, if you're inexperienced, you're more likely to have an accident -- all things being equal -- and therefore need a safer vehicle.

What would you rather lose, your child or your car and money?

My point again: be grateful she's healthy and safe, and unless she's prone to irresponsible/careless acts, just forget about it and move on and just have a talk about what happened, how, and why.

Again: I don't pretend to know what it's like to be a parent supporting children yet, but this is definitely how my parents raised me, and I've only suffered one accident in all my life, and I'm 29 now.

Just my 2c.

crosvs · #56 01-08-2009, 05:08 PM

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They're pre-med.
This subject pisses me off especially, my school is known for being "extremely difficult" and I know a lot of people who can't make 3.0's. However, statistics show that people who suffer through this school with a 2.9 get into grad schools at extraordinarily high rates, and find it "easy" to get a 4.0.
Its a highly subjective criteria. Maybe thats why you have to get down to a 0.5 before you're on probation here.

I pray to god I come home with a 3.0. I spend my friday nights at starbucks working on papers. (90% of the time) There are a lot of variables.

I also know kids with 4.0's who drink 6 nights a week and use needle drugs

yeah, i stumbled through UCLA with one major after another -- astrophys, chem, bio, math, finally finished with econ -- which SERIOUSLY hurt my gpa. and here i am now having finished law school and just passed the cal bar on my first attempt.

flyingmachine · #57 01-15-2009, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by alpac

I am almost done. After having replaced the radiator, expansion tank, front frame panel, etc... a couple of weeks ago I received, painted and installed the new bumpers cover and headlights yesterday. To my surprise my paint job on the bumper turned out really good. The color matches very well the original color of the car and the result really has a professional look. I bought the paint from Automotivetouchup web site (both color and clear coat). Their paint is of very good quality and it is realtively easy to get a professional finish even from aerosol spray cans. I hope to be able to do the same job with the hood, will see. I ordered more paint cans for the hood and have not received them yet. Here are some pics of the new bumper installed as well as the new headlights which have angel eyes unlike the original ones. I got both sides headlights from ebay for not even the price of 1 OEM.

can't believe the bumper was painted by the spray paint can. it looks just like professionally painted.

E61Silver · #58 01-15-2009, 12:30 PM

The car is looking good, great work!

alpac · #59 01-15-2009, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by flyingmachine

can't believe the bumper was painted by the spray paint can. it looks just like professionally painted.

I just spray painted the hood too. 3 layers for the color paint (4 cans) and 2 layers of clear coat (2 cans) and I am very please with the result, it looks really good

This week-end, if it is not too cold, I will machine polish the new paint with rubbing compound and then polishing compound and it should look like factory paint. I will post final pics after the hood and everything else is back on the car. I already told my daughter that she need to keep driving my pick up truck for a little while (several weeks) until I am sure her car is safe to drive

LeMansX5 · #60 01-15-2009, 10:17 PM

Nice job Alain. How do you remove dents? Did you ever work at body shop? that looks pro job.

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