e28 bottle caps..

[BS87]

There is an old e28 down the road from me with bottle caps on, and i was just wondering, are the E28 bottle caps styled differently from the E30 bottle caps? Because they look different than mine, and its been bugging the hell out of me. I dont know, they look.... flatter.

[LikeCDoos]

a few e28's and a e36 model (I think it was a base 318 or 325) came with what looks to be a 5 lug version of bottlecaps. Not sure if they are exactly the same, but they sure look to be the same. Maybe 15's instead of 14's

[Pedro]

On the e30 the bottlecap sticks out whereas on my e28 the bottlecap has a slight dip in towards the car. Of course everyone knows they are also 5 lug, but the biggest bitch i have about my e28 is that the rims on metric. the wheel was 205/55/190 i think which rounded off to roughly 14.9 inches. so finding TRX tires sucks. i believe only 85-86 were the years that did that but i dont think it applied to the iS'

[Matto]

The e28 bottlecaps have a lot more of a lip than the e30. I saw some the other day too.

[OreoGaborio]

well, i went to bavauto so i could post pics of the two side by side, but the picture they had for the 5-er was the same as the 3-er :?

[BavarianBimmer]

I've bought a new (used) at the local junkyard while mine was dented and when I put it on my car I saw there's something different,
Just dunno what exactly

the rear one is my new one :?

[nando]

that's the strangest looking bottlecap I've ever seen! maybe it's for the E21? either way it's ugly. :(

[BMW BMXER]

Oh god, looks worse than normal bottle caps.

[BS87]

Yeah, that kinda looks like them. The center is not as 'pronounced'

[spencers]

looks the same to me

[BavarianBimmer]

that's the strangest looking bottlecap I've ever seen! maybe it's for the E21? either way it's ugly. :(

I know :roll:

but it has a date stamp '86 so it's not from a E21
and it's the same brand and offset
btw it's just for the tyres for the yearly govrnment inspection so, it doesn't matter ;)

[BS87]

BTW, nice Mtech1 Pimpage :)

[OreoGaborio]

yeah, i'm suprised only one person mentioned the Mtech1..... you lucky.... lucky sunuvabitch :up: :up:

[Sean]

Mmm...is that Cirrus Blue? :up: ;)

I love that car! :D

E28 bottlecaps do indeed have more lip, they go in quite a bit further than E30 ones.

[Jand3rson]

The hub area on the rear bottlecap on that car is bigger than the front one.