EP. 6 My BMW E30 Restoration - Complete Removal and Preparation
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Hi and welcome to my channel,
In this video I will be removing the underseal from my e30 touring.
Apologies in advance as there are quite a few clips missing at the start of the video, however everything is covered and time coded!
This took me around 3 months to complete, however I would only work on the car for around 2 hours in the evening due to the excessive noise.
I used just the one saw blade for the multitool which i sharpened regularly, and the multi tool held up for the whole task.
I also used around 6 wire wheels on the grinder, it had a bearing change before i started the task as it was on the way out!
Time Codes:
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Roll-Over Jig
1:07 - Tools to be used
1:29 - Front Wheel Wells
2:17 - Primer to be used
3:07 - Front Floor section
5:04 - Rust Convertor Application
6:16 - Rear Floor section
7:27 - Weld 2 Primer
7:42 - Rear Floor painting
8:41 - Rear Wheel Wells
12:29 - Real-time speed of multitool
13:02 - Boot Floor section
16:05 - Outro
Products used include:
Wickes Multitool: www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Corde...
Saw blade kit: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223199254229
Drill wirebrush kit: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313850847555
Grinder wire wheel pack:www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400949687554
DINITROL Converust RC 800: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233363463170
MIPA EP-Grundierfiller EPOXY PRIMER 2k: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174306755267
U-Pol Weld 2 Primer: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173696031285 
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It's good to see home garage restoration most restorations seems to take place at large units with unlimited supply of tools and massive amounts of cash it just shows it can be done at home on a budget it shows it can be done I'm sure it will look amazing when finished 👊👍
Thanks Steve. For sure it’s a challenge, I can’t every every tool in the book due to space restrictions. But it’s a great feeling when you do it yourself
Insane amount of work, and well done! Congratulation for your patience and I hope the welding will be as fine as the preparation.
Appreciate the kind comment! Can’t wait to get started on the patch work
Great work, my friend! Good to have you back posting!
Thanks!! Wish I had the commitment like you do, big props.
That multitool scraper thing is genius, thanks for sharing that mate. Far better than wire wheeling for hours. Looks like a brilliant job, she'll be factory fresh by the time you're done, keep going!
Thanks! The mess was also dramatically decreased which helped lessen the clean up after each session. Moving quickly now with the work
Brilliant. I’m about to make a start to my e46 330i, I’m glad I saw the multi tool idea, genius!
For sure, good luck with it!
Been a while since your last upload but, this was worth the wait! Good work 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, til next time
Great work, really look forward to seeing your next video! 😃
Thanks dude!
Crazy amount of work. Amazing
Tell me about it! Thanks!
I'm doing this now and it's so painful!! Great video. Glad I'm not the only one to have to go through this.
A very pleasing task once completed, keep at it!
Absolutely awesome work mate. This is exactly what I’ll be starting soon so this is a perfect tutorial!! Thank you and keep up the great work
Thanks for the kind comments, good luck with your project. If you need any more advice please don’t hesitate to ask
Top lad
Going through the same process at the moment, i am quite jealous of your rear spring hubs - mine are completly rotted away.
Thank you for uploading this and showing me the ways of brushing on the epoxy primer... Cheers!
Trust me they are very bad, that whole area is going to be removed and replaced! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Nicely done!
Thanks man!
great idea with the multi tool.. I need to take the underseal off my Z3 wheel arches and never thought of using my multi tool !
Solid effort bro! I did the same with my track car e30! So much weight saved!
Thanks! I wish I had kept it all to weigh for people interested, must of been a good chunk.
Need to do this on my e46 in the future! Nice video
It’s a huge task, but will be worth it in the wnd
Looks good 👍🏻
Cheers man
Mega amount of work but really satisfying once done 👍
100% worth it. Clean sheet to do the repairs!
How far have you got with it so far ?
@@steveguest8028 around half way through it currently, haven’t had time to go full bore for a while. That will change in the summer! Not been filming the underside repairs though
Great transformation, new sub gained +
Glad you enjoyed!
Greetins from Finland, I have same job to do.. I have same year model Fiat 127 than I am to fix.. That underseal remove makes more gray hair, but your video shows that everything is easy if you want it to be..
I am gonna do my 127 project with 1,4 16v supercharget.
Great to hear, cool project.
Good luck with it, looking back now I feel it was very much worth the effort
Great video that is hard work let me tell you.Very nicely done
Thanks. Looking back to this 2 years ago now with the underside complete, i really didn’t know what I was getting myself into!
Painting the primer on is a great idea.Way less hassle then spraying.
@@michealoconnor4233 would highly recommend doing it, other good reasons are for getting into hard to reach areas and really cramming it into the seams!
Awesome job,,👌👍☝🏽
Thanks man!
Ohhhh here you are from Instagram ❤
Hope you’re enjoying!
what a daunting job
Very much so! A lot of procrastination happened before i started
@@BadE30 one thing that struck me, doesnt mechanically wireweeling take away the zinc on the metal?
@@becomematrix it shouldn’t have a zinc coating on the underside, only on the hardware which has been removed and is all getting zinc plated itself. Everything got primered within a day or too of removal so no way of corrosion getting onto it!
As said on insta mate thats a cracking job 👏
Thanks Richard! Really happy with the outcome, might even say it was worth the effort!
my motivation to do this just dropped 10 fold
Mammoth task. Glad it’s all over now!
First of all, great job and thanks for the video. Second of all, im thinking of building a roll over jig. How did u mount in in the rear kf thr ca sisnce one off the holes lands in the schasis rail?
Thanks and good luck
I used both front and rear bumper mounts, with the rear of mine they are each side of the chassis rails! No issue with it interfering
Insane amount of work and a great job, little sugestion, maybe try using a heat gun or propane torch to heat up the undercoat to remove it easier.
Thanks! I was aiming to keep away from using heat due to creating sticky residue, luckily the sunnier days helped warm it enough for it to come off easily without making a mess!
Gdybym miał tak karosserie przygotowane do prac to bym piaskowal drobnym szkłem..ja tak właśnie robię bo jestem w trakcie tego samego projektu. Piaskowanie a na to chemia.Gdzie spawac to spawac . Niewolno zostawiać rdzy. Bo robota na próżno.Mozna to porównać z zebami u dentysty. Albo robimy dobrze albo wcale
pozdrawiam
Thank you for taking the time to make this. I plan on doing my e30 underside this summer. What underseal do you plan on using after repairs are finished?
Thanks, it isn’t for the faint hearted! I will be using CE Chem CSP37 or similar.
Jeez respect to you on this very brave and very skilled. Surely as it looks like a patchwork quilt of previous no doubt dodgy repairs would it not just be better to get a better shell to start with? Good luck 👍
Thanks! Luckily there are only 2 previous patches which are quick to sort. I wish I didn’t even start the whole thing! But it’s my car, so it’ll get what it needs, eventually.. haha!
@@BadE30 ooooh I know that feeling one job leads to another then the domino effect kicks in and that point of no return - go get em you’ll smash this don’t give up 👍
Fantastic stuff mate. I'm going to try and attempt the same thing with my MK2 Scirocco. Just wondering what you'll be applying over the epoxy primer? Curious to know what you'll be using
thanks! Good luck with you Scirocco. I will be adding seam sealer, a coating of CE Chem underseal and then a body matched colour paint over!
Great video mate, are there any resources available on how you made the roll over jig? I would like to do something like this for my e30 aswell
Unfortunately i did not film this process as it was all by eye and no method about it. Kind of just fell into place with what i had spare. It’s a simple enough design of equilateral triangle structure with a 1m high fulcrum! The rest was made to fit
Very helpful video thanks, please tell me, are all e30s meant to have front frame rails (chassis legs) that slightly bow outwards at the ends, or are they meant to be dead straight.
Mine look pretty straight, are yours not? I’ll double check if so
Good job. Good option is to use epoxy primer for maritime. It has resistance against Salt and impacts
Glad I used it then! Once all underside work is completed, i plan to go over again with the primer before seam sealer and undercoat
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Wouldn't it have been more convenient to send the shell at a sandblasting facility? You did an insane amount of grinding with a wire wheel. Good job
I mainly used the oscillating scraper to take the bulk off, then wire wheeled the last few bits. I didn’t go with blasting as it may not look it but the body paint was only months old from when the car came off the road, as i never planned to take the resto this far! So i need to keep it isolated, also I enjoy doing things myself!
Why not sand blast?
Lot of work, only way to do it properly though. Nice.
Thanks! A big task but well worth it
awesome job congrats when is the welding video coming good luck
Thanks!! I’m not going to be doing any on the actual underside resto as it’s pretty tricky to film. Absolutely flying through it currently though
@@BadE30 I AGREE WITH YOU I WISH U LUCK AND ALLL THE BEST
What camera did you use looks clear ?
Just my iphone! this was filmed with an 11 pro max, now got a 13 pro max so it should be better!
@@BadE30 Thats nice to hear thanks for letting us know, did you use 4k settings or the 1080p what software are you using for post production? Thanks ones again pal great work must have been big pain to go through all that removal and rust fixing
And this is why I getting mine restored for Me
How I wish I had that mindset! Unfortunately I like to do it all myself, and deal with the consequences
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These are people doing mine uk based make lots of parts for e30 from original moulds
@@adambarrett5696 whats the placed called? I may need some panels in the future
Excellent work. But is the paint a type of filler or is it an epoxy primer, and who is better?
thanks, it is an epoxy primer! Filler will not have the rust preventative qualities compared to the epoxy
5:30 where did you get the idea that you had to 'wire wheel ' the rust converter off?
This was something I was told to do by my friend who does this for a living, said it was to aid paint adhesion. The reaction has took place in 24hrs and is not required anymore
Hi what did you use for all 4 stages thanks michael
All products used are in the description with links too!
Looking good, massive amount of work there, and looking good, what are your long term plans? doing the same on mine, check out the Chanel 330 fam, was the multi tool better than a heat gun/scraper etc, Iv not posted much on mine as a long term just a few repairs, keep up the good work 💪🏼🇬🇧
Thanks man! I prefered the multi tool process as it is much cleaner than with a heat gun as the underseal just peels off rather than melts off. The whole job went very well, I recommend to do it in the summer as the underseal is much softer, I learnt this right at the end of the task..
Where did you get the dolly that flips your car over, what’s it called
I built it myself! Known as a rotisserie.
There are options out there to purchase but I decided to make my own to suit me
Which seamsealer / undercoat will you use to seal it up?
This may change but the current plan is UPOL grey stripe seam sealer, a spray coating of CE Chem underseal and finally the colour coat
What type of paint did you use? I reffear on the white one.....its something special or normal paint?
Good work btw.
That’s the 2k epoxy primer, Mipa EP-Grundierfiller.
It was recommended by a friend who does this kind of work often!
@@BadE30 Tnx a lot for making time and answer! Gonna look for it in auto shops. Best regards ! 🤝🤝🤝
@@dany_6513 any type of epoxy primer will for sure be ok for this task! Good luck with it
Bet the neighbours love the noise
Communication and consideration! I have spoke with my closest neighbours to plan around when I can do the work, I got home at 3pm, them 5pm, so that was the time I worked on it! Only way to keep everyone happy
Great work but why didn’t you get it acid dipped. No know it’s a bit expensive but the labour you would have saved. I’ve just brought a E24 635csi which need work but I don’t think I could go as far as your going. I wish you all the luck my friend 😊
The body paint work may look grubby, but it was literally done just before i took it off the road. Very backwards i know, didn’t mean to take it off the road! So i want to keep the upper bits as is
So from there what else do you need to throw on it?
This is just to get it protected during my underside resto with all the rust repairs i am doing. Once completed it’ll get another coat of the epoxy primer, seal sealer and underseal!
heating it up with a blow torch first or hot air gun it scrapes of a lot easier
It does yes, but using the multitool helps alleviate that problem as it does the work for you! Keeps everything clean too
i did this on my E30, such a b@stard of a job. Good effort
You’re not wrong there! Thanks
I need to do this but i lack the tools. My motivation is dwindling
Wouldn’t dipping be cheaper and easier? Commendable effort if you have the time.
Dipping a car can bring a lot of other issues if not cleaned correctly! I wanted to do it myself, so this was the best option. I built the jig to do all this too
Would it not have been easier, cheaper, more convenient and less troublesome to acid dip or sand blast this car?
For me, no. I like to do stuff myself, also wanted to keep the body paint work as it was recently done before I took it off the road (was not the plan originally)
Can I get an awwwww yeah?!
Appreciate the kind words!