Ouch! My baby was rear-ended at a stop light by a kid in a Tahoe. Pretty substantial damage, the quarter-panels buckled a bit, the bumper cover and rear diffuser are ruined, battery is cracked, and it leaks gas.

The good news is, it's not totaled and they don't think there's any frame damage. While it's under the knife I'll do some other upgrades. I have a carbon fiber OEM style hood, and two fenders from a '99 M3 sitting in the garage. My driver's side fender had a wrinkle in it from somebody backing into me awhile ago, the passenger side has dents on top and the hood has accumulated many dents over the years and the paint is chipped to hell.

Kamei eyebrows and Rieger roof spoiler are on order and should be here this week, those get painted as well. This is a good excuse to finally get around to finishing the exterior, and actually saves me some money since the other guy's insurance is already paying for paint and color-matching for the rear-end damage, I'll get a break on getting my out-of-pocket work done.

I also have a CF Hartge style clip on adjustable knock-off wing already installed on the car. I like it, but I don't really like it in full CF, it's a little too Fast and Furious for my taste. It will be painted, leaving the adjustable part CF.

For the hood, I'm thinking of just having a thin strip of CF exposed along the cowl, maybe a 1/4 inch wide, and painting the rest, or painting the center and leaving the sides exposed.

Here’s a Photoshop mockup of what I’m thinking of:

And last but not least, I have a set of "BMW Motorsport" door handles on order, they MAY make it here before the car goes into the paint booth. Since they have to remove the entire door handle mechanisms to color-match into the doors, that becomes a free install and the final piece of exterior bling. If they don't make it in time, I can always install them myself, though I'm not looking forward to it.

I didn't get any pictures of the damage, since it was leaking fuel it went right into the shop, but I'll try to stop by this week and take some before they start tearing it down.

In the meantime, I'm styling in a rented 2004 Volvo S40 sedan from Enterprise. You can really tell Ford owns Volvo now, it's holding together as well as a Mustang or Taurus. What a piece of crap. 21k miles and it rattles more than my 200k chassis that has had every interior piece in and out, some several times, and riding on coil-overs. The leather is peeling off the steering wheel, and the "wood" trim is delaminating. It's gutless, automatic, and what's worse, FWD. Oh, and a CEL is on too.