Swapping US Spec bumpers with Euros

Post Wed May 25, 2005 1:39 am

hey i posted this in my thread in the Photo Gallery but nobody seems to want to tell me anything.

I have a 1989 325i Cab. Im Lookin for people who live in the US who have decided to take off their US Spec bumpers (due to the length of them) and swap em off for Euro style bumpers.

Id like to know if it was major labor and if it was super costly. Im not planning to spend loads of money if the bumpers i already have can be fixed real easily. But id love to hear if it were easy cuz id switch em off in a sec.

Post Wed May 25, 2005 1:41 am

bumpers are only 2 torx headed bolts each 2 remove iirc

not sure how it works diving boards tho..

Post Wed May 25, 2005 3:21 am

i`m pretty sure they are a straight swap

Post Wed May 25, 2005 7:15 pm

im really lookin for dead info. Ive searched all over usin google and havent found anythin. I saw one the other day runnin down the freeway that had euro chrome bumpers on it. Would have loved to have flagged him down lol!

Post Thu May 26, 2005 10:17 am

Euro chrome bumpers are a straight swap as are m-tech1 bumpers (as in the convertible at the top e30zone banner). If believe it is also possible to "tuck" the diving boards so they don't stick out so much.

It is also possible to convert to plastic bumpers, but there is some modification needed to be done at the back. This include onverting to mtech 2 kits.

I think m-teck 1s took sooo good and it is possible for them to be shipped over to the US, they do go for pretty high prices over there though.

some articles

Bumper tuck
http://www.strictlyeta.net/technical/bumpertuck.html

Converting to M-tech2/plastic bumpers
http://www.bmwe30.net/cgi-bin/datacgi/d ... Section=01

mtech 1

Post Thu May 26, 2005 2:25 pm

Wow thats some great info. Id love to learn how to "tuck" the diveboards in lol!