hartge designed oilpan guard

[///M42 sport]

Now this is something I think I would buy. Seems well designed. Looks OEM

[kronus]

Nice. There's a guy on e30tech that is producing skid plates that have a bar like that one.. they look super beefy.

[thearkitekt]

very nice, do you have any installed photos? looks like the previous owner made good use of it...haha

[Ben Carufel]

Uhm, no, that does not look OEM.

This looks OEM:

[MrWizard]

Hey, I recognise that pan guard, bolts to the grounding lugs like the old OE aggregate guard. They were made for Hargte, Alpina and Bauer.

[///M42 sport]

yeah, I look at it. The design he made requires welding to the frame

[gearheadE30]

ejnight makes some very good plates for our cars; he's on here somewhere.

[///M42 sport]

^^^ True, but his design requires drilling into the subframe. By the looks of the hartge, it uses existing attachment points similar to the oem design.

[KenC]

^^^ True, but his design requires drilling into the subframe. By the looks of the hartge, it uses existing attachment points similar to the oem design.

You drill into the radiator support, not the subframe. The rear of it uses the steering rack mounting bolts.

[Hick]

david, ejnight's are very nice. ive got one on my car, it was a simple job and its saved me a few times already

[norcalE30]

Uhm, no, that does not look OEM.

This looks OEM:

that looks like something a middleschooler would make in shop class with scraps

[e34john]

^
Except that this works.

[delfin]

that looks like something a middleschooler would make in shop class with scraps

Do you not remember what a certain Tony Stark did with a box of scraps?

[///M42 sport]

Ok I said the hartge "LOOKS LIKE" OEM not that it IS OEM. Thats why the title to this thread is Hartge designed oilpan guard. Which infers that I am aware this oilpan guard is designed by Hartge not BMW.

My other point is that the Hartge is designed similar to the factory OEM guard which uses existing mounting points which do not require additional drilling.

I am also aware there is a existing design which requires drilling into the radiator support.

Given that the OEM designed is difficult to obtain, and some report that it is NLA, I wanted to present another idea of what could be made so that other anal owners like myself who live in the rustbelt Ohio, could refrain from drilling additional holes and turning our cars into rustbuckets.

['90 325is]

Ok radiator support.

Given that the OEM designed is difficult to obtain, and some report that it is NLA, I wanted to present another idea of what could be made so that other anal owners like myself who live in the rustbelt Ohio, could refrain from drilling additional holes and turning our cars into rustbuckets.

Agreed^ id love to find someone willing to make and sell a skid plate that will just bolt on to stock mounting points.