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Smashed Curb, Damaged Wheel and Bumper...

Driving to the airport early a few days ago, running a little late to get there in time for my flight, I lost the back end of the car entering the Freeway. Admittedly I had DSC turned off, but there must have been a patch of dirt or oil as I have never had the car break-out and spin around so rapidly on me before. I got out and assessed the damage, luckily it was still driveable, so I continued on to make my flight. Compiled some photos of the damage below: As you can see the rear right wheel has been damaged quite substantially and the rear right panel has a scuff mark from running past a street sign in the spin. Luckily I had seen someone on GumTree selling a set of E46 M3 19" Wheels so I was able to get a replacement pretty quickly. I got some photos of the damaged wheel after I swapped the tyre onto a new one: I am pretty surprised the wheel was able to still hold the tyre and keep air as I drove on it like this for a few days before I managed to pick