Bumpers, bumpers, bumpers!

[accident]

I haven't looked at a DB bumper in awhile to remember how the shocks was bolted to the bumper. But i do remember that there is 6 bolts that hold the shocks onto the body. There is one in each side in the frame rail. The one above the muffler is harder to get to cause of the heat sheild.

When kronus and I did mine, we took off the front but left the rear on. In any event, on both front and rear there are four bolts each holding it on, one on either side of each shock. There were an additional four bolts holding the shocks to the bumpers themselves. The front didnt look like it would be easily drilled on the car, from what I remembered, but the rear was a piece of cake. Wear googles or keep your face way the fuck away from those shocks when drilling. I highly recommend leaving the shocks uncompressed if you take them off, until you put them back on the car. There's very little room left for a socket wrench when they're pushed all the way in.

You dont need to do any silly backing your car into a wall shit either. When kronus and I did mine, we pushed them in by hand and kicking. They werent too hard pushing in, but there's a nice bit of resistence coming back out.

[Stephen]

It looks like it has fog holes? Maybe stock for euro? Whatever it is, I want it. I actually like it better than mtech. WEll I'll tell myself so my wallet stays happy. But I really want to know what it is.

PS. Where is the best place to look for euro bumpers cheap?

German junkyards? lol

Its gunna be $.. but not ridiculous if you hunt. 350 seems to be what a decent set goes for

[87e30]

Looks more like a fogless euro valance...

It looks like it has fog holes? Maybe stock for euro? Whatever it is, I want it. I actually like it better than mtech. WEll I'll tell myself so my wallet stays happy. But I really want to know what it is.

PS. Where is the best place to look for euro bumpers cheap?

[Stephen]

Looks more like a fogless euro valance...

[E30_Pare]

stock ^

[87e30]

Name that front/rear valence!

PS: I know that those are euro bumpers.

[hendrixvodu]

for future reference to this page...this is the sheet metal euro valance, and fog buckets, the buckets use the M3 fogs





and this is a early model diving board front bbs air damn on euro bumper...that also fits




figured id give some input since there isnt much info on the euro bumpers

[Griffin]

That's what i did with my frist e30. I didn't take neither the front or rear bumper off.

So I am itching to do this, but I looked this weekend while I was under the car replacing shifter bushings and it looks like the only place to drill with everything in place is the smaller diameter part of the shock closer to the bumper as opposed to the larger part closer to the body.

Any clarification? I just don't want to swiss cheese them, but I guess it can't hurt much.

[Stephen]

On a related note:

Started my rear plastic swap today!

[JasonC]

That's what i did with my frist e30. I didn't take neither the front or rear bumper off.

[Griffin]

since I have a lift wouldn't it be easier to simply drill the bumper shocks with everything in place and try to just 'kick it in' after I get the car back on the ground? Note: I haven't even looked at the back yet.

[JasonC]

I haven't looked at a DB bumper in awhile to remember how the shocks was bolted to the bumper. But i do remember that there is 6 bolts that hold the shocks onto the body. There is one in each side in the frame rail. The one above the muffler is harder to get to cause of the heat sheild.

[Griffin]

1. Get on your back under the front bumper of the car. Look straight up, and there will be a hole on the underside of the metal part of the bumper about six inches in from each side. In these holes, are the 2 large bolts that hold the bumper on the car.

So I had the car (84 318i) on the lift today for an oil change and figured I'd pull out my printed copy of Josh Anderson's write up... My bumper has no holes in it at all, should I just take the bumper off using the 4 bolts that hold the bumper shocks to the car?

[tofubento]

I am a bit lost on the article , would I lose my aluminium bumpers? or would I be able to reuse those?

Exscuse the ignorance...I know 240s/golfs/crxs not bmws....so I am learning.

[tofubento]

k thank you