Project finished - 'MY22' 318is - bare metal, nut and bolt restoration

[getouth]

I'm impressed .......

[JGood]

Incredible build! Please keep the pics coming, we love this stuff.

[burkey001]

Let’s do some trim
Half the trim has gone NLA, so whilst some is new, some of the left hand side I had to cast the search net far and wide… here is a NOS part from 1988


Hard to fathom why some stuff is still made – when it’s the same thing – i.e. door trim… right side no worries. Date stamp 2017…. Right side.,.. sorry




Love new clips
















Took a while to track down the part number for the headlight speed clips. Realoem is not obvious



Back onto the doors for tick… new weather stripping for the top of the door



Complete with lil clips



Back to the front guards… indicators in and the insides given a good shot of 3M cavity wax. I know this stuff is messy, but the factory does a similar thing so I need to do something similar.




Test fitting a few things.. some of this stuff gets a little trim here and there so it doesn’t sit hard against surfaces.



Test fitting some mud flaps… needed a little trimming where they meet the bumper





Back to the doors… time to fit some more new seals and some clips so the shadowline can go back on

This factory b pillar has some blu-tak like shmutz holding it on (across 3 cars I checked), interesting. Also had some felt and some foamy stuff… so lets try & recreate it..



Door locks (not brand new, replaced 1 year ago in old car)



New keys… molte bene!


Latch in… missing the little rubber bung in this pic.. later added



Starting to look like something


New clips going on



Old V new

Fitted

New shadowline …




and that will do for now :)

[Rob]

Holy cow, what an incredible build!

[Melon]

Aw dang, I have some of the headlight clips that are Zinc, they look amazing.

I've been digging into tidbits over the past few months, if you have a question, feel free to ask. If I can save someone from buying something unnecessary I'd be glad to do it.

Thanks for posting the pics of the door trim, that's going to be super helpful when I put mine back together.

[Jokester]

I have a brand new, OEM driver side headlight cover if you are in need of one.

[burkey001]

Nothing terribly earth shattering happening

Test fitting some new ZKW fogs into the valance.

To get them to sit flush I will need to make some 3-4mm spacers installed on the top 2 bolts of the foglight mount. Just doesn’t quite sit as well as I want




Need to get a feel for the face, so stuck in some trim to see.
Debating black or silver headlights. I think silver (no crosses in high beam) but black trim rings is how we’ll roll.


There was some other stuff to tie off on the doors… The little clips that hold the shadowline trim on. The originals looked OK but proved to be very brittle in use. So new clips and harmony is restored



Got some door pulls and they don’t come with the little plastic bungs for the tie rod… kind of slack of BMW… lucky have spares

Where’s the bung?!?

These little things

And done & dusted



Speaking of bungs… the little hole in the door needs one
This one




I was waiting on some galvanised hardware before I could finish up the other door… got that underway and tucked in.


And now we have two closing doors



Trims on, keys workin, lookin good

[burkey001]

Also began the process of hanging the bumper bars.

I thought it might be easiest to mount the reinforcement first, and then push the cover on top so it’s less weight to manhandle about as you line up the mounts… I think it worked OK.



Love new bits


I did replace those non-shiny bolts with something shiner


This is how I have it sitting right now.
I have some regular M3 and Evo bumper seals in the air right now, so will wait and see how we can make those fit before I worry too much more about the gap. Pretty even right now though, so probably OK


Bungs and gaskets on the inside


Get them all aligned


And a little tappy tap tap and we’re good
Yes, that’s a boot seal working as an engine bay seal. I want to see how that pans out



Onto the rear bar, same same pretty much


Sitting not too bad



There is one tiny high spot on the LHR under the tail light. The plastic cover is sitting a little high. I don’t have it clipped down yet, and I could always dob a little Sikaflex there to stick it to the reinforcement to take care of it



Here’s something else. To get this piece of trim to sit perfect against the body, I had to undo the glue and push this little clip along a few mm… I hope these small things will all add up


Onto the boot lid and I made some paper templates to apply some sound deadening, hopefully neatly and in an OEM looking way.
Base layer

Top layer trial


Starting to look like a car??

[econti]

Boot insulation fitment is joocy

[Melon]

Beautiful build man!

[Jokester]

How much of each type of sound Deadener did you use in total? Seems super clean and OEM+.

[burkey001]

Well I haven’t finished yet, but I ordered seven boxes of the buytl/alloy stuff. Each box 1.8 sq metre. 15 sq m of the 6mm and 12 of the .12mm.
I don’t believe I will use it all

[jeenyus]

5 series bumper grommet to place in between the front bumper and front balance.

[Simon S]

Builds like this are straight pornographic to me..

Nice work !

[Jokester]

What are you doing for the body harness? I have to find a new one because my vehicle's previous owner is an asshat.