Need Front Wings

Hi I need both left and right front wings for a BMW 635CSi. Please advise me of the cheapest place to get these.

Thanks

 

Charlie

eta. wrote: Someone posted up recently on the 7 forum an outfit supplying pattern panels for all BM's.

...and E24 6-Series are NOT listed.

How much are you prepared to spend?

I don't think anyone knows any sources of steel pattern wings - IF THEY SHOUT LIKE MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are fibreglass & carbon-fibre offerings, contact Richard at Fritz's Bits, but you still talking lots of wonga!

I hate saying this, but in many cases it will be cheaper to buy an ebay wreck with good front wings & .............!

Finding cars with good front wings is quite difficult, removing said wings is also quite difficult - especially NOT damaging them in the process!

If all else fails, new ones from BMW are about £500 + VAT EACH!!!!!
Before painting & fitting.......
Good luck!

I get a lot of stuff from a BMW dealer in Guildford (mainly for my motorbikes) and he does me a discount on certain car parts. List price for the wings are something like £480 plus VAT (which is about £1100 the pair inc VAT). He sold me a wing recently for £358 plus VAT (around £850 inc VAT for a pair - and he may come down further). Downside is that you have to collect, but if you want me to have a word with him I'm more than happy to.

I wanted a brand new wing as I had the nearside replaced as an insurance claim last year (£1600 done by BMW with some associated items; headlight glass etc) and thought I'd save up for a 'proper' replacement on the offside. Barney at Munichs' told me that refurbs are good for a maximum of about five years but a properly treated new one should outlast that.

Edited by simonr

Was that a recent purchase Ross?

Can't imagine which cars you've bought them for as I thought all your stable had the benefit of brand newies?

Was reading the article in Total BMW about your Highline & was interested to read about the repairs to your rear arches - did you manage to get new steel ones or did you have to repair?

Restoring front wings requires removal and getting
them sandblasted - before being ruthless and
cutting out all the iffy metal. If you paint the insides
properly with red oxide followed by a few thick coats
of Hammerite (don't use seam sealer, it's rubbish)
and Waxoyl it after painting they'll last forever. A mate
of mine rebuilt the front wings on a 1974 VW Passat
10 years ago because they really are not available
anywhere and repair was the only option. They're still
not showing any bubbling or wrongness. Most
bodgers just plate the wings when they're still on the
car which is why the rust always comes back.

Not only that, but the rust stems from the stupid
reinforcing bracket at the front - unless you seam
weld it on and use lots of paint and waxoyl the rust
will always come back again.

I've just had my new front wings etch primed and sprayed with a rubberised paint (inside) at a local Porsche specialist.Porsche do it from new and it seems to work.

If you buy new inner wing shut panels from BMW,one of them comes rubber sprayed and one just in black primer.Why???

Yesterday I was doing a bit of 6er wing fixing (I have  six wings, for two cars, none perfect....its a long story....) and I noticed something I hadn't seen before.

If my observation is correct , 'E12' 6er wings are actually slightly different in another way from 'E28' 6er wings.

The indicator repeater hole and the 'A' pillar trim differences are well known and fairly obvious, but it also seems that there is a difference in the wheelarch flare.

On the later wings (mine came from an '85 car, one original, one replacement) the flare comes within 1/2" or so of the 'shoulder' ridge in the wing. On wings from an '81 E12 base E24 (again one original, one replacement so far as I can tell) the flare seems to blend in about 1" or more from the shoulder, quite different when you have them both side by side.

I still think the early wings will fit a later car, (and vice-versa with suitable modifications) but there may be a different tyre clearance, and they would have to be fitted in pairs; otherwise it'd look lopsided when viewed from the front.

Anyone else noticed this, or am I hallucinating, or have weird wings??

cheers

 

You're absolutely right Brucey - E12 6 Series wings
are different to the later ones and have a much
slimmer arch. This is because the Series 2 (E28)
car used Metric wheels which, when fitted to the E28
with it's slightly wider track, fouls the arch lips (or so
I'm told)
I'm not sure if the earlier wings are much, if any
cheaper than the later ones.

Every panel is different between the E12/E28 based
cars except the bonnet and (I think) bootlid. Even the
roof is different.