Fitting M3 rear bumper on standard E30?

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Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:25 pm

Does an M3 rear bumper fit on standard E30? If so is there anything I should know about fitting?

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jamesroools
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Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:30 pm

i think the m3 bumper is alot wider and wont fit mate
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Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:06 pm

E30 Bumper looks like this |__|

M3 Bumper looks like this \__/

A little modification may be required!
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Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:11 pm

i thought about the M bumpersfor nemo once
but id have to change valance and fogs and that aint accounting for if they would fit or not
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Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:31 pm

Richy325iTouring wrote:i thought about the M bumpersfor nemo once
but id have to change valance and fogs and that aint accounting for if they would fit or not
I'm asking about the REAR bumper whether it will fit the standard E30?
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Post Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:16 pm

PLEASE HELP!
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Post Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:21 pm

Genuine items won't fit 100% and Simon's diagram is a good representation as to why! HOWEVER! If you go for the glassfibre ones, they can be butchered to make them fit but in my opinion won't look right and are glassibre at the end of the day hence the finish won't be anywhere near as good as factory. Topwelshman has them on his racer and they fit well enough for a race car but they'd look wrong on a street car in my opinion without a LOT of work from a good bodyshop.
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Post Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:30 pm

I guess my post was invisible! :lol:
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