hood hinge detailed pictures needed

[V8E30]

hey guys i removed my hood hinge completely for paint and now that i need to put it back on i can not remember how it went back together... someone help this is what i have. pictures are better than words usually....

[SmokeE30]

http://realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?...57&hg=41&fg=35

[V8E30]

this does help a little bit but i need real life pictures of it installed so i can get a idea of how the spirings that stick out of the side of the hinge go together.

thanks but i need lots of pics please!!!

[jw 325ic]

Let me know if you need better ones:

[V8E30]

Let me know if you need better ones:

is there anyway i can get you to take a video or just a but load of other angles Please thank you for all your help bro!

[jw 325ic]

Yea but itll be after 10 CST.

[V8E30]

10 4 thanks bud

[jw 325ic]

Ah sorry man started getting ready for bed and forgot. Heres the best i could get with the lighting i have and time of night:








If anything ill take more tomorrow. And excuse my dirty engine bay :D

[V8E30]

Thanks for the help, but is there anyway i can ask for some more pictures in relative which way is aft and fwd as well as the some more pics of the other side of the attachment point and the spring inside of the hinge itself. Thanks again bud!! Alot thanks!

[Jand3rson]

Not trying to be a dick here, but you want some very specific things, don't you know anyone else with an E30 that you can go check out? Maybe try the junkyard?

[V8E30]

Not trying to be a dick here, but you want some very specific things, don't you know anyone else with an E30 that you can go check out? Maybe try the junkyard?

i live in dothan Al..... far and few between and there are not any good junk yards for like 3-4 hours away

[jw 325ic]

Dont mind helping, afterall its just snapping pics. Itll be around lunch or after work before i get out there again though.

Could have sworn i remember a thread just lie this a week or two ago.

[brianao34]

Haha, what are the chances? I just put mine back together and used this picture I took before I tore it apart. I'm in Montgomery too.

[V8E30]

thanks guys i ran into 1 more problem lol...

this is in!!! thanks to you guys!!!!




now how does this mount in one has a small silver bracket around the bolt but where pics again please!!! thanks again bros!!!!

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thanks again!

[V8E30]

bump for more info please guys!!!