Facelift Front Bumper
- Thread starter chrisba
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Not sure if this helps but it may give you an idea 
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=DU52&mospid=49421&btnr=51_5929&hg=51&fg=15
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=DU52&mospid=49421&btnr=51_5929&hg=51&fg=15
Additional parts to make up the front end
1. Lower bumper grill
2. Headlight washer caps (you might have these already)
3. Tow hook cover insert (you'll have this already)
4. Fog lamps (x2)
5. BMW Badge (you'll have one already)
6. Centre grills (you'll have these already)
If you have headlight washers - you should be able to transfer them over
Think that's it
1. Lower bumper grill
2. Headlight washer caps (you might have these already)
3. Tow hook cover insert (you'll have this already)
4. Fog lamps (x2)
5. BMW Badge (you'll have one already)
6. Centre grills (you'll have these already)
If you have headlight washers - you should be able to transfer them over
Think that's it
Fogs are the dear part. Sopers want £175/pair. Trouble is a lot of second hand ones are not very good as the silvering starts to go. Caps for the washers are about £30/pair and would need to be bonded on if you didn't have headlight washers. It's all worth it though as the transformation is good.
I didn't bother with the fogs I went for plastic panels and fitted DRL's
Samax92 has a lower grill for sale at the moment in 'buy and sell z4 related goods'
I didn't bother with the fogs I went for plastic panels and fitted DRL's
Samax92 has a lower grill for sale at the moment in 'buy and sell z4 related goods'
chrisba said:Redzedfour said:Not sure if this helps but it may give you an idea
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=DU52&mospid=49421&btnr=51_5929&hg=51&fg=15
Item 21 on there shows a "support".
Any idea if i could re-use the ones on my current bumper?
Checked the part number and it seems to be the same.
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partxref.do?part=51117165180
chrisba said:
Osram light@day. They come on automatically when you start the engine and go off when you turn the sidelights on (or you can have them drop to 50% brightness when sidelights are on) They are excellent quality and dont give the dotted LED effect that so many have
You have to buy the blanking panels from BMW to mount them in but they are easy to wire up especially hilst the bumper is off
chrisba said:
I might know someone that does know about them, I will ask.
I don't know if they do their own painting, there is a painter next door to them who I have used several times because his work is good but truthfully I can't see him doing them for them to sell at that price.
I have sent an email asking who they use.
chrisba said:
Ebay one, I will call in if I have time tomorrow and see what the finish is like and what repairs have been done.
Gumtree one, I was tempted, not too far from me and wife works in same town, but at the mo I can't afford all extra's needed to fit.
I would be very wary of the first posted bumper in primer. You have no idea what damage was done to it and how it's been repaired (good or bad)
Easiest thing in the world to badly repair, flat it off and disguise everything with a waft of primer. The first you find is when you see it in the flesh or later after painting it lifts or peals. Secondly few bodyshops will touch a bumper that they did not prep as any later issues are blamed on them.
Easiest thing in the world to badly repair, flat it off and disguise everything with a waft of primer. The first you find is when you see it in the flesh or later after painting it lifts or peals. Secondly few bodyshops will touch a bumper that they did not prep as any later issues are blamed on them.
