Originally Posted by TMAllison

Sixto - That is normal fitment between bumper and sheet metal.

I confess to not knowing how to upload pics to the forum.......here is my photobucket album link with a couple of pic of the BMW. It was a 99 528i that was totaled in 02.

http://s944.photobucket.com/albums/ad288/tmallison/

It rolled 3 times side to side initially. When the hillside got "really" steep, it did 3 more rolls nose to tail. Dropped ~300' in elevation. The path of travel was ~800' (it was a dogleg). The front struts are the high points in the engine compartment and is designed to rip strut, A-arm, tire and brakes away to shed energy. Lost both fronts earrly on. Second half of the trip was done w/o airbags as thy deflate fairly quickly. Took ~45 seconds for car to stop. It rose up on its rrear bumper in front of a 20' cliff at the end and impaled the undercarriage on the rubble below when it landed.

The front air bags probably should have deployed. The battery and computer are in the trunk whick was crushed badly on the first nose to tail roll. Roof came down from rear bumper to window support behind the drivers seat in basicaly a straight line.

Is why I will only dirve German cars.