Balljoint failure - E36 Euro M3 - VIR, Fall 2007

Eric drives my car as my balljoint on the lower front control arm fails and sends him into the weeds.

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• 3.2l
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• club
• november
• 2007
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[everynameistaken567]

why were you driving around with helmets on? did you know it was about to fail?

[brianamarks]

I assume you meant this as a joke...as you can tell, this video was taken on a racetrack and helmets are required (and just a good idea) when driving on a racetrack.

[everynameistaken567]

@brianamarks in the beginning there are a bunch of cars lined up on either side of you. i assumed they were parked on a street. i was being serious, i didnt think those cars would be just sitting there on the track

[brianamarks]

They are on the pit side of the wall - the "hot" traffic is on the other side of the wall, safely away from the queue area. That's how things are run at a racetrack.

[DriftStallion]

Nice save!!! did you guys hit anythin??

[brianamarks]

Nope, just grass

[Yabusii]

Skip to 2:15 to see the actual balljoint failure, if you allready know what a m3 sounds like while revving ;)

[prepaidbrian]

Fist off if you have bad ball joints YTF are you racing? You were asking for danger.

[jbestell]

yay keep driving it'll fix itself

[Tjrosenberry]

Get a go pro it will reduce the noise and focus on the engine noise, also put the camera on the dash or some where else next time!!

[g3dd35]

@everynameistaken567 twat

[ghk001]

were there any indications to its impeding failure? or it just happeneed?

[UNDERRATEDMCS]

beautiful sound

[confucious42]

happens around 2:20