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[D.Martijn]

Today I finally went to the guy who's helping me getting the Getrag rebuild. He's actually an old colleague of PieterVN :)

We had a bit of trouble splitting the cases, turns out we forgot...

[D.Martijn]

Thanks mate! Still some work to do but I'm just getting started.....

[D.Martijn]

Nice work on the paint correction, looks a lot better! Also the rear lenses, major difference

mike.bmw It's such a cool extra, it should be fairly straight forward to install, the...

[D.Martijn]

check the metal tube for rust; it goes from the rear wheel well to the inside of the car and to the underside of the section under the rear seats.
Mine was rusted and needed replacing.

[D.Martijn]

"seal" 5 is just a crush washer, number 4 is an o-ring that sit's in a groove on the banjo bolt.

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The mirror takes power at a plug in the A pillar (somewhere at the speaker) I've got a picture in my thread of the iX somewhere though...

[D.Martijn]

Yeah, I totally stumbled upon this ad as well a few months ago. Already bought 2 looms and also the connector at the mirror as the previous owner of mine had removed it.....

[D.Martijn]

There's a guy in the UK selling a map light rear view mirror wiring loom, exact match as the original loom.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/R3VL...?sale_post_id=...