Bonnet (Hood) insulation

Post Sat Jul 21, 2018 11:17 am

After my trip to Turino, the under bonnet insulation has parted company with the metal again.

Ripping it out to replace - horrible sticky glue and all - anyone done this and cleaned back to the paint, or stuck new insulation on the old glue??

Paul

Post Sat Jul 21, 2018 2:17 pm

Yep, as the foam had sat in the loft for a few years I used some 3M foam adhesive to keep some parts in place, need to check to see if in this heat it hasn't fallen off.

Used WD40 sparingly to take the old glue off.

Post Sat Jul 21, 2018 2:51 pm

OK, Bonnet off - 4 hours, gallon of petrol - all done.

Needed more than WD!

Hug gobs of old evo-stick or worse, about 4 layers of different goop, what an 'orrible job.

Off to Dortmund for a beer or ten!

Paul

Post Tue Jul 24, 2018 5:12 am

So was the one piece molded under bonnet insulation panel only fitted on American exports, never in Europe??

part number 51488103380.

Paul

Post Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:30 am

I have the one piece on my car, believe it was from SA.

Post Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:46 am

Bit jealous mate - they look much more tidy than the stick on's - remember my 525i E34 had one, looked very smart.

Paul

Post Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:37 am

paultv wrote:So was the one piece molded under bonnet insulation panel only fitted on American exports, never in Europe??

part number 51488103380.

Paul

Think they were fitted to the 325e, both in Europe and the US. Since the UK didn't get that model we don't see many of them.

Post Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:19 pm

also fitted to diesels and m3 but these differ i believe !