facelift?

[waldo87]

pretty new to the e30 scene have owned mine for about 8months just wondering if mine is a facelift or not. it is an f reg 88 i think has been made up to look like a sport and has had a tech 2 kit fitted but back bumper fit is strange any experts shed some light

[Duke137]

facelift mate. get some photo's posted anyway, let's see the beast!

[Speedtouch]

A 1988 is probably a facelift. Do you have a chassis number - all you need is the last 7 digits.

Other identifying features are projector (bullseye/smiley) headlamps in place of the plain earlier type, and the rear wheelarch is about an inch or so lower than the pre-facelift, also the rear lamps are the taller ones with small reversing lamps, compared to the 'Lego brick' earlier style.

[waldo87]

this is what i meant with the wheel arch difference at the rear hence the poor fitting bumper although could just be a poor fitting bumper haha. what is the difference with the tail lights. also is there somewhere ican get history on the car with the chassis no. as i said i am pretty new to the scene as i cut my teeth on vag golfs cupras 20vt turbo etc

[Speedtouch]

Put the last seven digits of the chassis number into RealOEM (www.realoem.com) and it will give you the build date.

This pic shows the early type lamps (left) and later type (right):

[Duke137]

Is it cabriolet actually?

[waldo87]

Thanks for the information speed touch will check it out. Don't know what the comment about cabrio is but its not. Will try post pics soon

[Duke137]

Cabbys didn't conform to the rule of facelift etc, my coupe is a 1988 E reg (earlier than yours) and it is a facelift.

The bumper is probably just fitted badly

[waldo87]

this is what i thought but i have had it off and tried refiiting it and its no better only slightly out i am just a bit of a perfectionist lol. just the joys of e30 ownership ithink i have already had to sort many of the common faults

[waldo87]

hope u like it DUKE

[Speedtouch]

An F-reg will almost certainly be a facelift; the changeover was mid-way through the E-reg year.

[waldo87]

backbumper your thoughts im not happy with the fit

[TPS]

Its a Facelift Tech2 Sport. The logbook would confirm this.

[waldo87]

TPS its not a sport not to the best of my knowledge the guy that sold it to me tried to tell me it was but its clearly not i.e not black headlining by the way i didnt spend sport money on it.

[e30den]

Looks tidy that, there must be something you can do to align the bumper.

[Speedtouch]

If he fitted a replica fibreglass kit, there may well be imperfect fit compared to the original BMW Tech 2 ABS items.

The proper ones should have a BMW stamp and part number on.