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Hey guys welcome back to legit street cars in this video. We are totally minting out this. My 2007 bmw 335i. Now this car, it's not too bad.
It's just got a few issues like rock chips on the hood and front bumper. A damaged rear bumper dents on the roof bent wheels a really dirty interior side mirrors with a mind of their own and a bunch of lights on the dash. I think that's it, but probably not i'm sure, we'll find much more, but we're going to be going start to finish in this video fixing. Everything and you guys know the deal grab yourself a cold pop, some popcorn.
If you will and enjoy the show - and after all of this work, i'm gon na be selling this car. I'm probably gon na regret it big time, because this is my dream. Spec montego, blue metallic e92 six-speed manual with the brushed aluminum trim the sport seats. It's got about horsepower and it's almost mechanically perfect.
It will be at the end of this video and i'm gon na be selling it, but maybe one of you guys will buy it. It will be auctioned off at no reserve on a really cool new enthusiast site called mods and miles.com, which i'm going to talk to you guys about in a minute. But for now we got to get to work. The guys at o'hare, auto body in bensonville illinois are literally buzzing away at my car as we speak.
All right so zach over here at o'hare was just doing a little test sand on the fender because it looks to be in pretty good shape, but they still want to blend part of it in there. So we're just checking to see if there's any filler and something weird that i didn't notice was this side. Marker is painted blue and this one is not so i kind of like the blue. This is so bad, so we're probably gon na match that and then we are gon na, do a front license plate, delete and fill those holes as well.
So with that, let's get this bumper off, it's almost ready, so i stepped away for like a half hour and zach had sanded most of the hood down and it doesn't look like there's any filler in the hood either, and it's really nice to be able to See the frame rails here they look original the frame rail extensions, the crash bar uh. None of the brackets are bent if you're looking out for an accident car, take a good look at these really thin brackets here, because if they tried to reuse them, you're going to be able to tell they're going to be all scratched up and slightly mangled. Just basically bent into shape for everything to fit, but they won't look pretty, and in this case, seeing a little bit of rust is probably a good thing. We know nothing's been touched in here.
This is a clean title, clean carfax car, so i wasn't expecting anything, but it's nice just to see the structure while we have the bumper off disappeared, very nice all right guys, it's garbage day at o'hare, auto body, and it's also 3 35. I paint day so we're about to get this car in the booth and paint it all, and i just wanted to show you guys what it looked like before we get in there. So we have, of course the hood is off the front. Bumper is off, the fenders are in really good shape, but we have to blend right into them, so this will be a seamless paint job. We won't be able to tell anything's been done. We have the mirror caps off in the paint booth and the rear bumper. As well anyway, with that, let's get this guy in the paint booth all right the front bumper prep is almost complete, so this will be hanging in the booth as well, and here you can see zach's final product of the plastic repair, oh, and we have no Front license plate holes anymore. That's gon na look so much better, all right, so we're taking up two paint booths.
Today we have one for the hood, the bumpers and the mirrors, and then the car will be in the one right over there next to it, um. So everything is almost there: we're heating up the room right now, just giving it its final wipe down, and you can't even tell that this rear bumper was pushed in right here. It looks totally factory and they even got the lines down perfect. So this is an anti-static gun and it pulls the static out of the bumper.
It works on metal panels too, but it works real great for the plastic. So what happens so like you got your hair and, depending on the weather, sometimes your arrows stick up more than others when that's static. When you put this, you spray this on there, it deionizes the air or whatever it'll help pull the paint into like the pockets. On the bumpers and stuff you're not forcing them in there, so if, like your shirt's super staticky, can you just blast yourself with this thing or whatever and it works? That's awesome.
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Smart lawn care actually looks pretty cool in this great color yeah. I like that color yeah what it is about, the metal, gray. Okay, this is a transparent base, coat or a blender is what we call it uh and we use this so the metallics land and lay out, as even as it does in the other in the rest of the panel. So it's off the system so right now rob is mixing up some more paint and you make all your measurements based on weight right.
Yes, sir, so the program will tell him exactly which colors and how much of it to put in there and look at all the different colors that go into making this blue talk about a perfect color match. This is crazy. It's almost montego give this concoction a little mix. This is definitely one of my favorite bmw colors, i'm a big fan of blue cars.
Although i bought my first one only about a year ago now i have three all right. The car's been baking for about 30 minutes in the paint booth and now it's time for the clear coat so he's gon na do two coats of clear, and this is what it looks like currently, which some people like this is kind of a cool satin. Look personally, i just rather have the gloss finish. I'm not huge into the satin, definitely not into the matte look um, but you know what, with a cool blue, it's not too bad.
So i'm going to wait until i touch the tank right now. If i touch it, i can still move it. I want it to where it like pops, so it goes from this to where, when you touch it and you pull it, there's be like strings right after that it starts popping and that's when we want to put the second post. Yes, that's experience right there for you, it's like stringy, but not string yeah.
So when it starts to do that, you start getting ready, rob. How long have you been paid cars probably close to 30 years 30 years, or something like that? This is crazy guys. This looks so good after it dries. They still have to wet sand and buff the entire panel, but holy cow.
I'm gon na have a really hard time selling this car after this video. Are you kidding me uh, so yeah? This just happened. Is it too late for me to change the entire premise of this video from me selling the car to me doing all this work to keep it for the rest of my life? This is probably the nicest paint job i've ever had done. Wow. What in the world is happening? This is only one coat of the clear too, without wet sanding without buffing rob seriously unbelievable man all right, so the guys reassembled, the entire car yesterday buffed it out and they just finished washing it. So max is gon na pull it out. Oh man, i can already tell this - is gon na be nice. This car is not very loud at all.
It's got the active exhaust, which is basically bypassed to be open at all times other than the catted aftermarket downpipe. The exhaust system is factory wow wow, this color, oh man, let's bring it around back. I got to show you this up close this rear. Bumper is absolutely perfect.
Wow and the match is just spot on these guys at o'hare are excellent with paint matching. You would never be able to tell that this car was painted. There isn't any excessive orange peel. The color is perfect.
I don't know how they do it. It's so good. Look at that. That quarter was not painted and let's move over here, i got new little marker lights too.
These smoked ones so probably should have given these to them before because they had these out, but we'll swap those out back at legit three cars along with these nasty wheels that are completely destroyed. I have new ones waiting for us at the shop and then uh. These are painted now the body color on both sides, for whatever reason one of them was the factory amber, and then they cleaned up this. They actually repainted some of this plastic mesh grill here so that it kind of pops and looks new again and wow.
Look at that beautiful. This is such a good looking car all right, i'm back at legit street quarters. We have tires on order. I have the new wheels in the attic already uh we're going to be fixing these crazy mirrors, but first we have dennis, does dents coming tomorrow to fix these roof dents, and he came by here briefly, and let me know that i do need to drop the Headliner and possibly this section of the sunroof frame so kind of a worst case scenario as far as roof dense, he said if they were over here, it would have been much easier.
He could have just opened the sunroof and gotten his tools in, but we got to do what we got to do so: let's drop a headliner, we'll start off with the grab handle and then the sun visor, which needs a cleaning, has a little electrical connector here. Coat hanger deal there, we go okay, so i have the sun visor and the grab handles out from both sides. Now and now we have to tackle these overhead control panels and a lot of times these just pop right out there we go sometimes there's screws underneath here that hold the headliner in in this case, it's just velcro, i believe the front overhead control panel can stay. Doesn't seem to be holding us up at all, so at this point we have to get the a-pillar and b-pillar trims out and c-pillar trims too. All right! So we'll just pull this trim off here first, and we can come around all the way to the a-pillar as well, and we can just leave it hanging right there all right at this point. We can kind of just pull this out like that. There was a little cover and a screw here, so i've removed that and put our clean wedge in here and most of the time we're wearing vinyl gloves to protect our hands from getting dirty and in the case of headliners, it's the opposite. You want some clean gloves to protect your interior from getting dirty from your hands.
Even if your hands look clean, they have oils on them that can soak into this light fabric for the headliner there's leaves in here there we go all right, so this guy we can take out completely and look at that. We didn't break any clips. Yeah we're getting there we're getting there. There was another cover and a t20 right here, so i've removed that and now we can pull back our a-pillar and just kind of shimmy it out of here all right.
I just pulled the light out here, someone's holding this up. There we go. I got ta get this sunroof seal out of here. That's holding this up too.
Oh yeah! Now it's coming down! So, let's see before we drop everything. Can we get to those dents? This is what might be the issue, the sunroof frame. Okay, i just pulled the rear clips in the back there, and now we can see that yeah. The sunroof frame here is right in the way of our dents, not cool, but then again, oh, it does look like pretty much.
Everything would be in the way if we were right in the middle he could maybe sneak in this way is what he was talking about, but yeah, not a ton of room to do any work here on the roof. All right so dennis just got here from dennis does dents and we are now removing the entire sunroof track. Actually we're just going to be dropping it down. So we have a bungee cord here.
So we're going to hold it up. It'll kind of drop down around the height of the headliner, so we don't actually have to remove it from the vehicle. Dennis has done this a few times and it looks pretty easy: it's just a bunch of tens and what is it? T30S? Okay. So at this point dennis - and i have to remove a 10 mil at the same time, so tandem 10 mil removal dude, these things are awesome there.
We go look at that all right. So here's what it looks like from the top. The sunroof glass comes down with it, and now we have access to the metal the sheet metal here for the roof. I know it looks like a lot of work and i don't want to downplay it.
I mean this is kind of a big job, but i have maybe like an hour total into disassembling everything, so not horrible, and that way we'll be able to get these dents out perfectly. All right, so right now dennis is gluing his tool onto the roof. Since these are larger damage, i want to kind of get the big meat of the deck to come out so use a heavier one, because it's a little bit easier. I mean that just sets in a few seconds right. That's crazy! So like trying to pull this up like it's pretty much impossible, put a little rubbing, alcohol it'll go around the edge here on the side and it's enough to break the surface tension. Wow wow, look at the difference already all right! So right now dennis has his tool right under that brace. So that's something we cannot remove. So there's a lot in the way here to get to these dents they're in, like the worst spot.
They could have been anywhere else anyway, he's getting in there and kind of pushing these up. So it's hard to tell well at this point we don't even know where the dents are, because they're, mostly all gone so dennis, was actually just telling me that this front part here, so this metal part of the roof in the front is actually the most difficult Because we still have to drop everything down, but you can see there's a ton of bracing in here, so it's hard to get to the actual top side of the roof here. So i guess we sort of got lucky yeah. It could be worse.
It could be the dents pushing through the edge of the body line where this upper trim is at like up here. If these were pushed through the edge it'd be a lot more difficult to fix. All right guys dennis is all done just giving it a final wipe down right now and uh yeah. The dents were somewhere over here.
So this is what it looked like before, and this is what it looks like now. You literally could never tell not. In a million years, could anyone point out? I mean there is no dents, that's it they're gone good job dennis once again, dennis does dance. If you guys are in the chicagoland area, all of his information will be down below.
He is the best dent guy. In all of the chicagoland area, i can guarantee that it's not 100 perfect, but i mean it's close. What are you talking about? He always says this. He always says that it's not 100.
It is 100 dennis. There's nothing left, i'm picky! Okay, okay! So there is a sunroof drain in each corner. I've reconnected all of those very important. If you don't do that, you can literally flood your car.
Also, it's a good time to look into those drains, make sure they're, not clogged, which i did and they're all good. So at this point we are going to lift the headliner back into place. That's one of them. Okay, that's two push! These velcros back in here hold the center all right.
All right. We got the headliner held in a few spots. Now we're just going to throw in one of these handles it'll hold it up and we can start reattaching everything else all right guys. You saw me take it down, so i'm just going to reinstall everything in reverse order and then we're moving on to the next part of the car which at this point i don't.
I don't know what that is all right. Let's keep going. We got ta fix these weird mirrors, you open the door and they do that so first things. First, we're gon na go ahead and pop off this cover. It's very easy. There's a couple of clips at the bottom kind of go all the way around with a plastic wedge here you don't want to scratch anything there. We go so to fix this mirror issue we're going to start off by actually drilling a hole right about here. Just using a little bit of grease on the drill bit to collect the metal shavings with the hole drilled, this is what we're looking at we're able to see the inside of this mirror assembly and what happens here is there's a pin inside that's supposed to stop The mirror in the proper position and it gets frozen.
It gets stuck so we're going to spray a little bit of penetrating oil right inside and we're going to move it around a little bit really get that oil kind of traveling down inside and an alternative to drilling a hole is disassembling everything. It's kind of a big project and then you might run into this issue again. So what we've done is made an access, port and i'll be covering that up when we're done here, but we'll move it around a little bit more get a little bit more of the penetrating oil in there and it's going to kind of disappear as it flows. Inside yeah, it's getting better, you see that a little more there.
It is in the retracted position, go ahead and stop there. We go cool there, we go. That's it's a normal position right there hit it again, one more time, peter, it's retracted. All right! Awesome! We're done, oh, i almost forgot.
We have to cover this hole up and we're just going to use a little bit of silicone and then, if it ever needs to be serviced again, you can just peel that off and you're done all right now now we can move on to the driver's side. Okay, so the driver's side still had the same issue, but it was more intermittent. This one could go, sometimes you know weak or something of working, and then it would just randomly not work, and so i don't think this pin is nearly as frozen. So we're going to clean this up and you can actually, if you don't want to drill, if you want to try this first, you can peel the gasket back right there and then get a little penetrating oil in and it'll creep up, even from the bottom.
If you're using good, penetrating oil and it'll lubricate that pen just kind of clean up all the crud in here too, as much as you can, and sometimes that works all right retracted, see if it stops yeah there we go okay, so yeah try that method. First it'll work like half the time um, but if not, you do have to drill and get some more lubricant in there and then sometimes you have to use a little punch and beat on the pin from the top side. Yeah. The alternative is replacing the entire thing for a lot of money or taking it apart, and when you do that, there's a lot of little pieces, you have to weld something back. It's it's a big project, so try it this way all right. So i fixed a lot of dash lights on this car in previous videos. But what's left is a whole slew of abs, traction control lights and i've scanned it for codes, and it looks like we have an issue with the left front wheel, speed sensor, so you can check for codes with any basic scanner that does abs. So now that we know that the front left is suspect, i have a graph here - that's going to show the speed of that sensor and i have a helper that is going to go ahead and spin the wheel around at the left front.
So go ahead. So right now he is manually spinning that wheel. We got nothing now he's going to spin around the front right wheel, we'll see if anything happens, yay there we go all right. So that's getting a reading so that front left sensor is not doing a thing and if you have a more basic scanner that does read abs live data, you might not get a graph but it'll just straight up.
Show you the mile an hour so go ahead and spin that right front there we go he's able to manually spin it to like five miles an hour and now we'll try the left front. It is spinning right now and not doing a thing now, more often than not the wheel, speed sensor right here fails um, but sometimes this can get dirty and you can pop the sensor out and clean it and other times. There's an issue with the wiring harness, and you can see here right here - there's like a little bulge going on and i think there might be an open in this harness intermittently and sometimes, if you play with this harness, you can get it to read again and It'll kind of fix itself, and in my case and i've seen this before when it rains the light, goes away, which means it's making a connection there. So just a couple of different methods of diagnosis, that'll kind of point you in the right direction, but first things.
First is to pull the sensor out um and clean. So anyway, we're gon na go, get a new sensor, i'll pull it out and i'll show you what i'm talking about all right, i'm just going on a quick parts run, and yes, i'm on autopilot right now. But i just wanted to tell you guys first, that after this video after you see the final reveal and i fixed everything on the 335i i'll - be selling it on mods and so i'll talk to you more about this on june 4th 2022, when i release a Video announcing that i'm selling like half of my fleet, so if you guys have ever wanted to own one of my cars, you can actually pre-register as a buyer at modsandmiles.com, so you're ready to go and if you have a cool car you want to sell that. Might have some mods or some miles.
We finally have a true enthusiast car auction website that will approve those types of listings, so anyway, we'll talk more about it. On june 4th, for now i got to pick up some parts and we got to finish this car. All right to remove the sensor, we just need a five millimeter allen about a year ago, i had an abs light on and i cleaned both of the front sensors and that fixed it. I drove the car, maybe three four thousand miles after that, with no issues, and now we get another abs light. So i don't suspect this to be very dirty. Yeah we can kind of take a peek inside everything is clean, nothing's abnormal a lot of times. You'll get a lot of rust buildup in here and that can throw the sensors off all right. So here's our old sensor - and here is our new sensor.
This was only about 35 bucks, since everything is clean, we're just going to pop the new sensor in, and it should only take you about five minutes to replace one of these. This is where the connector plugs in and then just make sure you have the routing. Just like factory they clip in in certain spots so that the sensor wiring doesn't get stretched when the wheel is turned alright. Here we go spinning the left front wheel and now we have our reading.
So let's see how fast fast can i do this by hand? Let's see five, we get eight, no, no six is the most. I got look at that: a bmw with no warning lights and mirrors that retract and fold out properly. So we got the mirrors fixed. We got no more abs lights.
The new wheels came in a little teaser for you and we have a very special guest who just showed up with a very special machine check. This out. We have a dry ice machine at legit's recorders and jason is going to work his magic on cleaning this. This nastiness, so this engine compartment has never probably been clean.
It's really really bad, so we're going to use dry ice on this and on the interior, but this is we. We got to start here. This is horrible. So on this machine, you're going to see um, you have some adjustability here so back here you can adjust how big you want the ice pellets to actually be from one to five and you'll see on the inside.
Here um you can actually that'll move and it'll. Just go to the different size ice pellets in there when we move this, and then we have an adjustability up here for air, so we're just going to start by throwing some ice in the machine, and i just picked up this dry ice locally. There's actually a co2 shortage, i was only able to buy 30 pounds of this um 30 pounds at a time. We tried to be slick.
I brought max with me and i'm like 30 pounds for max 30 pounds for me and they're like no. No, you can't do that so anyway. Hopefully we have enough here to clean an engine and most of an interior we'll see close that up. Oh man, this is like straight up out of back to the future right now this is awesome.
Yeah, what's really cool. Is that you can get into these tiny little crevices on the hardware and that just brings the detail to another level? No, this is too much fun. Can i can i try this? Yes, i always wanted to do this here. We go.
I got ta say what i like is that it gets in all these tiny little crevices. So, even though after we're done, we might do like a final wipe down for protection um. This is getting in all these little nooks and crannies, where there's dirt that you would spend a lot of time getting with the brush and chemicals and stuff, and did i mention it's a lot of fun all right. Well, jason's continuing on with the engine, i'm gon na start vacuuming up this disgusting interior and then we're gon na do some dry ice blasting in here too. This is totally normal. A little bit of uh 5 16 fuel hose all right guys. So i just got done vacuuming we haven't sprayed anything or scrubbed anything we're going to try and attack that the gas pedal. So you know normally with traditional cleaning spray it down with some sort of degreaser and extract it up with water.
We've done this and there's a circuit board inside of this gas pedal here. Ask me how i know we replace a few of them and it's it's not cheap to replace them so using dry ice to get all that caked up salt watch how fast it is. It's snowing in my car. It really works well on the headliner material.
That looks great, so you know i can't leave nasty k, n air filters in a soon to be beautiful engine compartment, so we're spraying these down with the cleaner all right now we just got to rinse these out. You let the cleaner sit on there for a few minutes and then just rinse it from the inside yeah. I guess these weren't too bad, so you can never have an air filter. That's too clean.
So why not? The engine compartment is looking too good to have this rusted bracket, so while the air filters are drying, let's do something about it. Look at this. This is nasty all right, so i've sanded it down, and i'm just spraying a little bit of rust converter here. So this is going to chemically react with all of the rust and convert it, so it doesn't rust again.
So after you do that the metal can look a little funky and weird, don't worry, that's normal all right we're going to go ahead and paint this black. I think that'll match the engine compartment much better. Everything else is black. This kind of sticks out a lot of this.
You won't see, but we'll protect it anyway, with the bracket and the air filters drying, i'm going to move back into the interior, and i was surprised that the dry ice machine was able to clean all of our carpets. So we just did dry ice and a vacuum on the carpets and it's great i don't really see a need to shampoo them or anything like that. They look perfect. So we ran out of dry ice.
There is a shortage going on, so we used it in kind of the more difficult to reach areas, and now i can go around and clean things more traditionally and for me, that's using a steamer on stains like this, i don't know what happened in here looks Like maybe some gum or something we're gon na warm it up and wipe it, steamers are great, too you're, not using any chemicals or anything. It's just water. Look at that. I like to use the steamer in these hard to clean seams and for the most part you can get a leather seat, pretty clean by just steaming it and nice and disinfected, and then we'll go over this with some leather, cleaner and conditioner. When we're done. If you guys steam clean your vents, which i always like doing just make sure to either turn your heat on or blow it out with an air gun like this, and these are amazing for cleaning interiors, don't remember the brand. Is it blow? I don't know i'll leave a link down below only took me about 10 seconds to clean this cup holder and here's what it looks like after i dried it off with a microfiber all right, so i have the interior all cleaned up. Next up we have the clyde's re-moisturizing balm.
I like this stuff, a lot for leather. It's got a very neutral smell to it and i think it conditions really well. I've used this on hard leather that just hasn't been conditioned in forever and actually makes it a little bit softer with the air filters dry. I can oil them and i go very light with this stuff.
You really don't need a lot of the spray. Some people just saturate it like crazy, that's about it all right, we'll wipe these down and we have a little while longer before the brackets dry, but i'll go ahead and install these and this one here all right tighten the clamps up, but you get the idea. These look much better, here's our final product on the bracket, let's go ahead and reinstall this guy, all right plug in the top vacuum lines here, and i cannot leave this bolt. Looking all rusted, i'm just using a little bit of the spray paint here all right.
So for this bracket we went from this to this for a few cents in about 20 minutes of time. I think it was well well worth it all right. Next piece of the puzzle is this: bmw beauty cover all right. My last step under the hood is ceramic coating.
All of the black plastic trim. You guys know i love this stuff. I use it on cars. I even use this on my glass shower door at my house because it repels the water so well.
We don't have to clean it that often so this is an excellent trimmer store. You don't have to buy a separate product for this and we will be ceramic coating, the entire exterior of the 335 here in just a couple of minutes. So let me finish up with this and then i'll show you the final result under the hood. This is definitely the most satisfying part, though this looks so good all right, so we started off with a disgusting grimy, never cleaned n54 bmw engine.
So we went from this all the way to this i got to say this is one of the most satisfying engine cleaning experiences that i've had. This thing is fully ceramic coated, there's no more grease or grime. Everything just looks beautiful and clean all right guys. This was kind of a last minute decision here, but the previous owner had applied plasti-dip to do a trim, chrome delete, and i want to just fix this with a little bit more plasti-dip and this stuff blends really nicely. I'm just going to go over the whole thing with a few light coats. It's coat number two. We fixed up the chrome delete really nicely and on a super budget. So we went from this lots of scuff lots of that chrome peeking through all the way to this, and normally i'm not big into plasti dip, but there's no real reason to reinvent the wheel here.
I think this looks really really great and all for about five dollars so doing an actual chrome delete with vinyl wrap and a shop could cost you a couple of hundred dollars, and i got ta say this looks really great, my first time ever using plasti-dip. It's not peter's first time using plasti-dip, though he's a plasti-dip professional. No i'm a hot boy, uh, plasti-dip and zip-ties he's he's an import so anyway he's doing the other side so we'll see which one turns out better. This looks pretty sweet, though peter all right before we get to the buff in the ceramic coating and our new wheels.
I can't wait to put those on. We have to continue on here with molding, so check out the molding around the windshield. It's all kind of hacked up, someone put some kind of rtv or something in here, and you could just go to bmw for about 50 bucks and get the actual entire three-quarter trim molding around the windshield. So let's go ahead and dig this old one out.
This is something else i've never done before, which is replacing a windshield molding. So hopefully i don't open up a can of worms here, but this looks. This just looks horrible. I can't i can't say a car is complete with this molding on it.
Oh man, whoever did this really did me a salad. This is glued in there real nice, it's gon na be so much fun to clean out all right. Hopefully this top one's not as bad nope. This is nice there.
You go. Isn't that nice, these corner pieces really just deteriorated away? Okay, we're digging a lot out of the channel between the roof and the windshield and the pillar and the windshield here, but it's going well so now we're just cleaning it up that way. The surface is nice and prepped for the double-sided tape that they use from the factory we're going to use some pre-painting prep as well, just to make sure 100 that everything is nice and degreased all right new pieces going in and we essentially have to tuck it In around the glass and then we can pull the double-sided tape. Okay, so basically i pushed the seal onto the glass forward.
Then i just use a little plastic wedge to slide it under the roof line, all right. So now we can kind of tuck. In these side pieces like so so you kind of got to push down. While you pull the cover off the tape, all right, so we're up top here, just pulling the tape and then kind of pushing it down all right. We fixed the chrome, delete and the weather stripping around the windshield. All for a grand total of about 55 dollars looks like i got a leak here. I just removed these super faded fog lights they're, like 150 bucks, each at the dealer. So, let's see if we can fix them, we're gon na do a little bit of wet sanding all right.
So after a little bit of wet sanding, let's see we have here, oh yeah, much better. We've gotten rid of pretty much all of the major blemishes. Now we can buff it out sweet, oh yes, this looks so good. This is the other side, but look at how bad this was.
I went from this to this guy, just bolted up the fog lights. Looking awesome and i just polished out this driver's side headlight. I still have to do the other side and yes, i probably should have done that before cleaning the engine, but look at this that is so bad. Luckily, these are cleaning up very easily, and so that just removes the yellowing right here and now we have a lot of little micro scratches then we're just going to use a coarse pad with some coarse compound.
I got this new toy recently. This little rupez is awesome. Looking good all right, headlights and fog lights are done, but we do need to protect them with some ceramic coating, which will block the uv light, otherwise they will get yellow again. Wow.
Look at this front end. This is awesome anyway. Our next step before the ceramic coating is a clay mitt, so you can do this when you wash your car too, with just normal car soap, but we have some clay. Lube probably do not need to do this on the hood, since it's freshly painted, but we're just gon na clay, the entire car.
This is gon na pull out any impurities in the clear coat. The key is to make sure the panel is lubricated the entire time, and this works a lot faster than the clay bar. You can do an entire car in about 45 minutes or so, and you can clean this and reuse it a bunch of times all right. So we got to tackle some of the scratches on the car.
The car is overall in really good shape and we want it all to match, especially since we have new paint, so we're going to be using a medium wool pad, and some fine compound we'll see how far we can get with this okay good, i think we'll Be able to tackle the entire car with the fine, polish and the medium wool pad all right, so the roof is by far the worst part of this car. It is dull faded. There's lots of little scratches so we're gon na do a little tape line action and see how nice we can get this so i'm doing about five passes per section and then cleaning the pad in between. So, let's see we have here, let's wipe the tape residue off, so we get a really good look so check this out.
The roof is clean. This is just how bad it was and then we move over to our freshly polished section and that's beautiful. Look at the difference all right guys, i just got done buffing the entire car and it's going to look even better than it does right now, because we got a ceramic coat, the entire car too. All right, if you guys normally watch my channel, then you know the drill, we're using the armor shield 9 from avalon king and we're just wiping it on we're, going to wait 60 seconds and then wipe it off. So i work in sections about yay big. I already did this side of the hood gon na overlap a little bit go back and forth, and that's about it. It's very easy i'll leave you guys a coupon code and a link down below for 25 off your own kit. All right.
I already coated that side of the hood too, and now we're just wiping it all down ceramic coating. A car also gives it a deep glossy shine, so it kind of makes the color pop even more and just like. You guys saw under the hood, we're gon na restore all of the faded black trim, and this is instant gratification. So much fun.
Look at that and i'm gon na coat the glass as well, so you won't have to use your wipers as much if you ceramic coat the glass it's kind of like rain-x, but better all right guys, ceramic coating is done. I'll show you this paint up close when we get outside, but we have to fix two things that ugly guy right there and these completely destroyed wheels. I got these tinted side marker lights. This is going to match the chrome delete we have going on with this car and they're just plug and play very simple nice that looks so much cleaner.
No way, it's sequential, that's so cool! I had no idea. It is time to get rid of these bent wheels and actually really like the design and the color of these goodbye. All right - and here they are. I went with a very similar design.
It is different, i'll put the other ones next to it slightly different color. As well and those were 18s, these are 19s brand new tires. I think the look and the fitment on these is perfect. Let me show you yes, so this is stock ride height and it's basically perfectly flush here with the fender, no spacer or anything.
So here's the difference old, vers new, it's not a huge difference, but just enough to set it off, and i really like this color and the 19 inch version as well. These are advanti wheels. I don't remember all the specs and everything but i'll list it all down below if you guys are curious, but this is the stock ride height and we haven't even settled the suspension yet and driven it. So we'll go down a little bit more, but even at stock ride height.
I think it's perfect. It's got a very usable stance, it's not sticking out or anything where you're going to run into issues and the rear looks great as well and they are staggered all right. Let me show you guys this thing up close. This is the final reveal and i could not be happier with how this car turned out.
I can't believe, i'm selling it honestly. I think i'm going to regret this big time, because this is my dream: spec. E92. 335I. This exact color these style wheels. I'm normally not into chrome deletes, but i think this just matches the car perfectly so from the factory it had. The chrome trim here on the front kidney grilles that is gone. We've polished out the headlights.
Everything just looks as it did in 2007. This thing is straight as an arrow and i think the stance on the wheels is perfect, especially for a stock ride height. I was considering lowering this car, but it looks so good as is, and there's really no fuss or downsides here, so i'd probably leave it. Here's a good shot from the back too, and these are staggered.
We have two 65s in the back and 245s up front. I'm really happy with how the roof came out. Not only did dennis get all of the dents out, but we got pretty much all the scratches out as well, so the paint just pops - and you cannot tell the difference between the original paint and the painted fenders and hood, and all that this is original. This is new and they did an excellent job on the match.
I really like these side lights as well and then look at this interior. Do you guys remember what this looked like? It was nasty before just really dirty, and i know you guys are like why didn't you just clean it alex well. The fact is, i wanted to clean it, but i knew i was one day going to be making this kind of complete restoration type of video. So i wanted to save it, and i didn't really use the car all that much but uh anyway.
This is what we have now and look at these sports seats. The aluminum trim the six-speed manual. I mean this. Is it it doesn't get any better for me for a 335i e92 interior, the back seat is practically new.
I don't know if anyone's ever sat back there well, probably because there's not a whole lot of room and here's our beautiful n54 engine, all cleaned up with no issues whatsoever and i'll drop. You guys a playlist down below if you haven't seen all the other videos on this car. I've done a lot more to it, so i got it with a bunch of issues. It wouldn't go into boost, so i fixed that we did brand new index 12 injectors.
Dual fuel pumps - it's tuned - it is a flex fuel car, so you can run up to e50 the way it sits right here. It's got a larger front, mount intercooler, a larger downpipe and a few other little bolt-ons here. So it's about a 420-405 wheel car as it sits right now so anyway, guys june 4th. This will be live on mods and miles.com.
I hate to see it go, but i cannot wait to meet the new owner of this car and hopefully they take really good care of it, and maybe when i really regret this about a year from now, they'll sell it back to me, because this thing is Just too sweet all right, guys, that'll do it for this video it's actually starting to rain, because of course it is, we cleaned up a car and, on its first drive, it's gon na rain on it. So anyway, i hope you guys really enjoyed this from start to finish video, if you did give it a big thumbs up share the video with your friends subscribe if you haven't already and most importantly, have an awesome day i'll catch all of you in the next Video you.
Nice one. Even nicer would have been an M-Sport conversion. That would have been really rare. 335, manual and M-Sport.
Thanks for all your hard work love from the roberts family from England 🏴
I think when you're done fixing the car all up you should test drive it for about a year or two and then put it up for sale you know to make sure everything's okay with it anyhow keep up the good work try not to bring yourself out watched till the end like I always do 🤗✌️
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I have a 03 525i that I'm selling on consignment with a dealer in Temecula, Alex. It was a sweet driving machine but was costing me too much to keep it reliable. If I had a garage and the room I would keep it. I'm driving a GLK 350 as my daily driver now and I really like it.
Alex do you know of any excellent paint shops in the Fallbrook/Temecula CA area?
I’m curious, why paint the hood horizontal? Couldn’t you hang it so you don’t have to lean over it?
It's almost 1am here, but we've just had an election & I've had a few frosty beverages, so yeah I'm in for this, Rj in Oz
Been wanting an e92 335i for so long, so jealous right now, especially on the color
Another great Saturday showcase! Love that color too. Well done as always. Drive an X5 myself. BMW’s are a love or hate vehicle, but that one you have should be loved by all.
Every time I hear Bensenville all I can think of is Bensenville auto wreckers.
That matte blue on the driver quater is beautiful
can't wait to see u meet whit Sreten….. don't sell it Alex😢
Been looking for a nice one since your first video about this car. No luck so far. I love blue cars. Current ride in a low miles '05 Mini Cooper S JCW convertible stick shift. Pretty rare car.
So many people posting, "first". So many people WRONG.
I have been waiting for these e92 video since you bought it haha
First, I’ve been waiting for n54 content forever ❤️❤️