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What did I fail to do to my ride yesterday? The driver's side decklid taillight assembly was loose.  There's a little plastic protrusion that fits into a slot in the trunk to hold the assembly in place. Some idiot tapped my bumper in a parking lot just hard enough to break it off. Apparently, this is a common enough issue with F30s that BMW designed an updated part, number 63217372793. Two months ago, I ordered a replacement part from an online junkyard called Pacific Motors. I finally got around to swapping it in this weekend.  Along the way, I lost a weird fastener for the trunk liner that I have no idea how to replace.  And then I put the two parts side by side (top: original, bottom: yard, and you can see the little lip that snapped off on the left side of each part), and realized two things.  1) The part I bought online is corroded as hell, and the one that's been loose and open to the rain for months in my car is not. 2) There's a bolt that the white doohickey on the right mounts onto. In the part in my car, that bolt is in tight enough that I think it might be glued in place somehow. In the replacement part, it's been stripped out.  I put it all back together so I can drive the car around while I figure out what to do about this. Ideally, I'd want to go to a pick-a-part yard and just strip this thing out, but there aren't very many in the Bay Area and none of the ones I called had any F30s. I'm afraid to start trying to tear mine apart to pull out the uncorroded metal. Could I maybe somehow use JB Weld or something to mold a replacement for the little plastic nubbin that snapped off the old part? Also, where am I going to find another one of those weird fasteners?
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rdb posted:I have seen those in a trim fastener kit. Try “bmw trim fastener” on amazon. Thanks, that got me started in the right direction. There are a bunch of similar fasteners for sale. Hopefully I can find one that'll work. ^^^ Oh man, even better.
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Jan 14, 2019 07:04
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DJ Commie posted:You probably bought flood car parts. I bet that's exactly what it was. Fuckers.
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Jan 14, 2019 07:12
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Dynoed it. It has 72,000 miles on a direct-injection turbo engine, so I figured it’d be down on power, but it basically hit the factory numbers. Now I don’t feel like I need to drop money on a walnut blast and catch can. Sweet!
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Jan 20, 2019 20:49
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Who the hell sees a Saturn Ion roll into the shop and thinks “yeah, I’m gonna soak moneybags here”?
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May 8, 2019 03:02
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Ha! The DEF thing might be the funniest part.
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May 8, 2019 05:38
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Night Danger Moose posted:Got a wheel fixed that I curbed badly. 3 hours and $125 later it looks brand new. What did you do to fix it, or is this a service shops offer? I've got some curbing I'd like to get cleaned up.
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Previa_fun posted:Mother-in-law's 95 Nissan Hardbody That is way better than most MIL cars
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