New lip I picked up does not fit up to my valance..any idea?

Post Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:46 pm

Is my valance fucked up, or do I have the wrong lip????

help!

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:28 am

wrong lip mate.
you have a post 1988 valence and a pre 1988 lip you need an is lip spoiler to fit that valence
hope tha helps
regards ben

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:07 am

Are you sure about that? That valance dosn't look anything like a face-lift valance. Just look at the fog light area, dosn't even look anything like the face lift fog area.

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:20 am

That is certainly not a facelift valance.

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:14 am

that looks like a pre facelift valance and lip to me, pre facelifts had rectangular fog lights

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:37 am

Real oem shows this as a facelift valence: http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do ... g=41&fg=10

Bit it cant be as the facelift part has the section for the oil cooler grill?

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:49 am

The drawings used on the ETK are not necessarily representative of the part, and are just used as indications.

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:37 pm

This is very very odd.

I was under the impresion that european lips are shorter than the US ones. So I went ahead and picked up the "shorter" european one for my european valance.

Both my US and european lips look to be the same length on both sides.

Hmmm

I have a delema here!

Post Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:40 pm

anyone have any ideas?

Post Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:09 pm

Glad it got there mate but as to why it won,t fit i have no idea. Came straight off my 86cab and is certainly a pre facelift valance

Post Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:19 pm

your valance must be dented or out of shape..its an early panel

Post Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:27 pm

Taz wrote:your valance must be dented or out of shape..its an early panel

Whos.e valence Taz?

Post Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:33 pm

i have the same lip that was fitted standard on my 1990 cab by the factory on my car! if this helps in any way

But my vallance has not got the four big holes cut in to it!!

Post Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:00 am

schneiders front valance might be out of shape slightly

Post Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:16 am

would a tec 1 valance be different? cause that looks a different shape to my pre facelift ones?

Post Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:26 am

The early facelift panels with the extra holes cut in the centre are quite flimsy.
It looks like it maye of flattened out in the centre slightly. If it was mine I would bolt it on to the car (hopefully bringing it back to shape)and then try fitting the lower section.
When I took mine off for painting it lived in the shed for a couple of months and it took a bit of fettling to get the lower section to fit properly.
Is it an origional BMW panel? Your problem may be that its a crap copy.

john

Post Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:29 am

I'm pretty positive the valance is out of shape a little. However, I cant just put the lip on and straighten it out. The reason why is the holes don't match up at all! With the center hole on both the valance and lip lined up, none of the others line up

Anyone want to sell me a early valance without the middle cutouts??

Post Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:54 am

There are atleast 3 different types of pre face lift valance's. The one you have schneider is from an early sport, Which is designed to have a lower front spoiler and not a lip. You need one like in whipsey's pic's unfortunatly dude.

Or a tech1 bumper and skirt..

Post Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:59 pm

^ thank you!!

Does anyone have any picutures of my valance with the matched lower spoiler? I might as well see what that looks like before I go off and get another valance.

again thank you