Straight outta Germany - Vol 2: E36 Touring

[Dr.AK]

Today I tried fitting the kidney grille.



Harder than expected because something was not right.

After a bit of fiddling around, I made it fit, mainly after adjusting the passenger fender some more (and enlarging the hole where it screws to the kidney grille ).



But during the process I found that the passenger side of the grille is a bit bent. Nothing I can't fix though, but annoying.



So far so good, everything fits together reasonably well and only the kidney grille needs some adjusting.

Took the front apart to start some work on the grille, namely doing some de-rusting as it had some slight spots where the rust was starting to form, nothing major though or I wouldn't have bought it.





Sadly, my tools didn't like me today and so my drill I used for the de-rusting gave up in a cloud of smoke after I was about 75% done.

[Dr.AK]

I just bought another set of wheels.



BBS RF in 8.5x17 ET13 and 9.5x17 ET13.

2 outer lips need replacing as they're a bit bent, but no matter. After all, I got these for a price where I just couldn't say no!

[ChristopherJason]

SEXY, Maybe Color match them wheels to the car when its painted

[Dr.AK]

finally got around to removing the tires from my wheels.



And here you can also see the aluminium hex nut I had cnc milled because the original plastic hexes were... well, shit.

[Dr.AK]

Is the paint really that bad?

Just rock a few od panels!!!

Not the paint, really. There's just lots of small dents all over the car.

Progress!



Sanded the fillered areas on the hood



Removed 3 dents in the rear door, also removed slight rust near the holes for the side mouldings and then fillered it. Too bad I was so intelligent to not mask off the door handle completely...

[ChristopherJason]

damn nice wagon man, ive seen a few really good ones.

[Water Boy]

Is the paint really that bad?

Just rock a few od panels!!!

[Dr.AK]

Removed some dents in the hood and threw on the rear bumper cause i need the space it was occupying, lol.

[Dr.AK]

Woooh!

Thanks again to K.rischan for the bumper

[Dr.AK]

New fenderrrrrr

[Dr.AK]

Yup, feels good to do the work yourself.



Just needs some filler, some finer sanding and then the bumper's ready for paint.

Will tackle getting the dent out of the quarter panel next!

[BigBody]

When I'm forced to do the work on my own car I tell myself I will appreciate it more when I'm done. Good job on the bumper and keep up the good work.

[Dr.AK]

Finally got around to fixing the rear bumper.



Just some more sanding and all's good.

[scaredofstance]

i like that stone greyish thing you got there. think it looks better than that metallic doo doo brown one u had in mind.

[P78]

for a direction you didn't wanna go, that looks nice