1986 BMW e28 5 series touring car rep

Thanks. You're right, I've caught everything on this car in the nick of time. I reckon if left untouched for another year or so she would of been in much more trouble.
I've still got to finish off the floor, battery tray, both front wings, o/s sill jacking points and maybe o/s front floor, rear panel and a couple of scabs on the rear arches.

Quick update. Yesterday I finished welding up the holes in the nearside footwell, unfortunately I haven't got any pics of the job because my phone died. The repair section I fabricated was neatly cut in and welded including seam with spot welds.
The only pic, but you get the idea.

Today I took out the driver's seat to replace the seatbelt buckle due to it being very temperamental. The carpet under the seat was pretty grim with 32 years of filth. So I gave it a proper good hoover out.






I also took apart the centre console and gave it and the carpet a good clean.







I also replaced the passenger seat buckle so they are a matching pair. Smelling and looking a lot fresher.


Once the interior was done I went about replacing these trailing arm links which were very worn and made quite a racket when driving over bumpy surfaces.




Next up is to sort out the battery tray due to it crumbling away at a rate of knots.

Evening all, bit of an update. The old girl passed the annual health check with flying colours. But that was short lived because of an intermittent knocking noise developed from the nearside rear corner. I got the car into work and up on the ramp to investigate. It became very clear the nearside CV joints were shot! After a bit of searching I found a pair of good driveshafts from eBay for the very good price of £80 for the pair.




Old driveshaft removed and it becomes apparent how f**ked the CV joints were! Lots of side to side movement unlike the replacement shafts.


I decided to peal back the CV boots on the replacement shafts and cleaned out the old grease and packed them out with new grease.

New shaft in and whilst I was down this end of the car I decided to change the diff oil.


I took the car for a spin and got it up to temperature. All good and driving like a Swiss watch again. When I got back from my test drive I also changed the engine oil and filter.




And finally I got round to ordering a new boot badge.

Scabby old badge now replaced with new shiny badge.

All in all a productive morning. Hopefully I'll get back on the bodywork soon and sort out that nearside front wing! It's becoming an eyesore!

Thank you. Peace of mind is important especially on classics. Mechanically she's in great shape and doesn't bat an eyelid now. Once I'm up to date with project wife and kids I'll be back on the bodywork and sort out it's small tin worm infestation. Hopefully mid summer we'll see some good bodywork progress.

great work! is there any continuation?

I would give my right arm for another E28 - either in 520 or 525e flavour. for me, the most usable classic car out there. Timeless looks, reasonable performance and good parts availability. I so so want another but I fear I could not afford another :-(

Some really nice fabrication and welding here
Becoming a stunning E28
Looking forward to future updates

You're quite right, providing you get a relatively solid one and maintain them well they'll go on forever.

No offence intended 07lilredwagon 

Had to fix an E90 320d recently. Horrendous car to try and troubleshoot.