We all have had to stop on the road before with car trouble! Seems that every caravan of cars has its share! But this story is seriously like finding a needle in a haystack!

Going through pictures on numerous forums and other sites, it looks like H2o was one of the best events of the year. 1000s of cars jumped on the road from all directions to head to H2o. In this series the plan is to show what you are not seeing on the forums. Greasyblocks will cover the ride up with the  DürtyDübs and Eurowise Caravan. The starting point was ATL and the meet-up point was just past Charlotte in Concord at the Lowes Motor Speedway exit off I-85.

I was sitting at Monterrey’s, still my favorite Mexican restaurant BTW, when I started going through Eric’s Macbook Pro. I shoot my way straight to Iphoto and click the H2o folder. What I saw was insane! There had to be over 500 pictures of the most random nonsense and partying I have ever seen! Anyways, I ran across these photos of this guy I met a few months ago working on a M3. Before I could even ask, Eric went straight into the story about what happened. It was too good to hear, so I contacted Mike for more of the story on his BMW!

GB: Mike, What happened man?!

Mike: As always last minute work was performed on the car to get the final stance on my M3 perfect. I have a 90mm stud conversion on my car with titanium gold lug nuts. You aren’t supposed to use air tools to run these lugs down but last minute and desperate measures, I turn my impact gun down to the lowest setting and just get the lugs started. At the same time I ran down the lower shock bolt. That’s where the issue began. I didn’t use a lift that night to work on my car so I didn’t do my usual routine and go back over all the bolts by hand. I lowered the car off the floor jack. Torqued the wheels down with my torque wrench and pulled her on out.

On the way up to concord mills to meet up with the durtydubs crew. Strangely while cruising on  the highway, not driving fast or hitting huge bumps my left rear wheel started rubbing more then often. I didn’t think anything of it except my trunk was loaded down with parts and clothes. We all met up with the durties then took off. Not even 10 minutes after leaving the gas station nash calls me and says the dude following behind you says he sees your shock hanging. I was like “no way it cant be I don’t hear anything dragging or hitting” So we kept driving and he called back again and said “no seriously something doesn’t look right” so we pull off the interstate and as we are pulling off we hit a small road bump and while I am on the phone with him he was like “OMG something just hit my sub-frame”

So we pull off the exit into a gas station and sure enough my shock was completely loose. We hoped back onto the highway and drove up the off ramp and looked for less than 10mins and Noosh goes “there it is!” sure enough it was sitting in the middle of the highway off ramp!

Pretty crazy story 1 in a million for sure!

Thanks for getting back at me quickly Mike! I have seen a pretty good amount of work that has came out of the Eurowise camp, and for sure this story is not to reflect on their shop work, but more or less show you that even the best mechanics out there can have problems, especially if you are working in a rush! By day, they are your all goto quality Euro shop, and by night, your everyday average human being like the rest of us!!

www.euro-wise.com

Oh snap! BTW, who is this big overgrown Predator-looking black dude?!

Yes, that’s the famous Walker joining in on the action with some photos! Shot outs to you and my S3 homies man!

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When you sit as wide as Eric’s GLI you can pretty much say forget everything else. Motor, no needs for any power besides the little bit you need to move the wheels. Interior, please! All you need is 4 seats, an Ipod, and air in the compressor! As the Prince said on that track SUMERTIME… “2mph, so everybody sees you!”

Eric’s Jetta is sex. That’s how I always seem to tell people about it when I try and describe it to them. When I tell them that those BBS on the back are 17×11 with a 225 on it, that’s probably when I get either continuous talk and hate about why people shouldn’t stretch tires, or something along the lines of that’s the baddest shit I have seen son!

This car is never finished, never ready, never right. It is always going through some kind of construction. There are always details changed. But the part about this car that we all can get down with no matter if we like it or not is the fact that its a daily driven car! Sometimes hundreds of miles per day, and sometimes just to go get supplies for work, either way, you’ll see it on the ground!

The Anodized lips are ill. I miss the polished lips with purple spokes though (Pics coming!)

Keep an eye on Greasyblocks to see more on Eric’s Jetta! (Assembling the BBS wheels, fitment information and tutorials, and video riding around whoring out the fo-DOE!)

• BBS RS Wheels
• 17×9.5 et 19 with 2in lips 215/40 Falken 512
• 17×11 et 25 with 3in lips -3 camber 225/45 Falken 512
• Lips anodized by Dragon Plating and Anodizing/Paint custom blended by D&D Customs
• Wheels were a BMW bolt pattern but redrilled to a 5×100 to be able to fit wide fitment
• As for fitment when I got the wheels I knew no matter what i wanted a wide wheel with a big lip
• Custom Lips from Racing Team Hofmann in Germany
• TT Brakes
• BagYard front struts
• Universal Air House 2 air bags with bilstein Shocks rear
• 4 way Accuair manifold w/ seven way switch box
• APR reflash
• GHL Turbo-Back exhaust
• Light weight pulleys
• Upgraded Intercooler and tubo piping

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