me he metido con las puertas, un rollo, algo de lo que es empezar y saber que vas a tardar de lo lindo, y que te vas a encontrar hasta gente muerta dentro de los huecos de puerta (metaforico, que nadie llame al CSI), que vas a tener que refabricar cosas, y buscar hasta en la basura... pero llevo 5 años sin freno de puerta dercha, y ya me he cansado ! por otro lado no me veo traduciendolo, lo siento mucho (i´m so sorry, je suis desolè) aunque creo que se puede seguir bien con las fotos como dice la primera linea: disfrutenlo, o sufranlo (yo que se...) yeah, another big and long one, enjoy...(or suffer ?) ;-) a spring is missing here... yeah, the car was originally white... my god ! what a dirty lock mechanism ! in fact it was blocked and i can not use the key to close it ! a broken door stop.. postion marked before dissasembly regrease and new bolts and washers (mr. arde said once something about endorphines and new spares... I agree with him)
as i have explained before my right side door stop is broken, moreover looking at it now in the picture, i am noticing that it was wrongly assembled some months ago, in a trip to germany i found some NLA, NOS door stops, these are original door stops for e9, but for the 2000 version as is clearly stated in the bag, it seems that it doesn´t fit for our 3000 bodies: there are some differences that can be told from the pictures but the most remarkable one is that the size of the base area that gets in contact with the door panel is different, bigger in fact, that does not allow you to place it correctly, so i have to work a bit taking material off to accomodate this so to copy the old shape, i put one against the other in the vice and fix both with bolts and using a file...it is aluminium, so the work is not hard now it is modified to correct shape: compare my two new door stops, the lower one has been modified to fit in my e9 once assembled, perfect fit, perfect function it is nice to have this working, i have not had a door stop in the right door since i bought the car
this is the part itself, after removing the rust of the attachment plate (the one that has the prongs), i applied rust converter and them i painted with zinc paint: the part is very long and now is good, eventhough not perfectly straight, but when i removed from the door trim it was really bent the unbending work is really a difficult one, you must go little by little using a piece of wood fixed to the vice, and a cloth wrapping the wood to avoid scratches, then it is better to do a little be less than needed, check, and do it again, have a flat surface close to your working area to check if the prongs are not attaching the chrome strips to the cardboard, it might be because the cardboard is destroyed, and thus the prong is making the pressure to the cloth through the destroyed cardboard it is no other way to fix it but removing the whole panel out any alternative way that tries to fix it will result in a damage in the mentioned prongs, and they are not easy to fix or substitute IMHO...
new issue, the trim panel i need to remove the cover to reuse it in a new panel i tried to remove all, including the felt, but it has been imposible, the felt is glued to the panel due to heat in long lines (i guess the cause was the production process), so i had to remove one from the other, i used a hot air gun to help cleaning: copy the deteriorated panel in new fresh material
for the interested people, there is a solution planned for the mechanism spring support, a drawing: it is in production right now... panel is prepared and finished with all the holes done: tip: to make a better fit i opened the holes for the clips to 12mm instead of 11mm, if there is a deviation while marking the holes you will find very difficult to position 14 clips onto the door here you are this little ba***rd, it is only 450gramms ! but,... this is the mechanism that holds the triangular window and rotates it open and close the system consists of a cilindric part that is able to hold the triangular window frame rod, the holder has an evident M8 bolt, and a not so evident plate that is fixed by a clamp and a bolt (you can see the back of the clamp in the previous picture (a black tab only), and the bolt is in between the grease in the next pic), the PO mechanic was not smart enough to figure out about the second fixing point so you can see how he destroyed the holder. it still works, but is a piece of s**t you can guess there will be something else by the second, and smaller hole in the plate, it is evident for a skilled guy isn´t it ? before dismantling anything, i marked all the positions to be able to replicate the assembly leter on: this is the lower fixing for the window rail now the top fixing for the window rail: the sliding part and the window plate: the front lower sliding pad: soak all these bolts on penetrating fluid a day or two before attempting to loose them, they are rusty and thus blocked ! so if you are not careful you can even break the glass now it comes the tedious job of cleaning all these dirty bits !
triang. window frame: end of felt weatherstrip: remove copy end: change triang window, remove rivets: you remove the window taking it out by turning it slightly place new rivets after introducing new window cleaning and preparing bits for painting i plan to reproduce the rubbers
Nice job... Está claro que la troupe BMW se estrujó el cerebro a la hora de diseñar todos esos mecanismos. Por fuera parece todo sencillo, pero leñe, por dentro parecen las entrañas de un transbordador espacial... Por cierto, un brindis por el ñapas que metió mano al bicho antes que tú... :zartyman Salu2
Gracias por el brico. Precisamente tengo que hacerle lo mismo a los paneles de mi coche este verano, la chapa de madera está en las últimas, se cae a trozos y ante la imposibilidad de encontrar unos paneles de ocasión del mismo color...
la pu*a la puerta ! que infierno de trasto, mas trampas no puede tener, y mas mierda tampoco ! hoy le he metido una buena de pintado de piecillas, y tal, creo que pronto me pongo a montar pero es trabajo de mucha paciencia y muy distintas habilidades, desde tapiceria hasta fabricacion de gomillas, y chorradillas varias, pasando por fabricacion mecanica y leches en vinagre me parece que a la puerta izquierda le van a dar las uvas, creo que este año no le toca !
ahahah excelente trabajo dequincey as usual, yo tambien debería hacer lo propio algún día. ¿Sabes que he probado como aislante de humedad para el panel? forro adhesivo transparente para libros, ha! va genial
unfortunately this part does not exist: it goes at the front end: check the ends remove the old one insert the new one:
i miss a final aspect picture: it is good enough, but it is not perfect, as it is missing some of the rigidity provided by the missing felt, now the blue vinyl stretches a little bit more,... i will have to live with it... it is a car,...it is ONLY a car,... you remember ?: BMW Commercial "It's Only a Car" - YouTube
finally i decided to remove everything of the door lock, inlcuding the handle, someone told me that it was a PITA, so i was reluctant to do this, but: surface rust, removed and rust converter applied mechanism, ready for cleaning: clean door panel and new rubber stops: cleaned and new bolts, nuts and washers:
when i wrote about the door stop assembly position, i made a mistake, i was unsatisfied by the "feeling" of the door while opening and closing, so i investigated a bit, on the manuals and finally on a friends car, and the result is that the right position of the door stop is THIS !:
remember this ? well, after some struggle trying to fix the damaged part i ended up making a new one with a different fixation approach: but i need to prepare the surface to hold this part, the PO welding procedure damaged the area: here you can see how the replacement part has been introduced after reopening the area, you can see the part prepared for the left side mechanism, and an special bolt and a washer that will act as fixing and retaining the part in its place: the washer has been bent to provide a spring action: i fixed the bolt using loctite medium strength glue once fixed the mechanism works ok and is prepared to be assembled in the door
La virgen que trabajito. Me entran solo sudores de verlo. Cada vez que tengo que desmontar un panel de alguno de mis coches me cargo algo, no quiero ni imaginar meterle un repaso así a la puerta. Felicidades.
espera otorre, que todavia falta un poco y luego montar... the assembly of all the elements is not difficult, but there are two important aspects, first of all is the need of a sequence, some elements can be assembled, others can be compromised and impossible to introduce once other parts are mounted second, is the inherent difficulty of the adjustment of all the elements to provide a correct movement and fit of the window my experience says, that for a completely dissasembled door, the sequence is : first is the outer handle and its mechanism, then is the door lock mechanism, then the door lock itself, following this sequence it is straight forward, but one last issue, the final adjustment of the outer handle must be done at the end of this block of parts (do not assembly now the inner handle mechanism, this IMHO is the last mech to be assembled in the whole door) when this is finished, the next part is the triangular vent window, the complete frame, place it in its position , but do not tighten the nuts and bolts then the window glass itself, but to introduce it you will have to remove the big support that move along the rear guide, then introduce the rear guide, and with this part in position, introduce and fix the above mentioned support, now introduce the vent window mechanism from under before any window adjustment, introduce the window lift mechanism, the adjustment will be influenced by the whole system in my experience, the adjustment is too complicate, not only you will have to compensate the paralelism of the guides, but the position of the mentioned big support within the window glass is also an aspect to be considered it is also critical the position of the lower supports of the guides, these two points, one in the front and the other in the rear are the responsibles for the top of the window to move inwards or outwards this adjustment is critical for a good closing of the front and rear windows one against the other, but is critical for the closure of the triangular and front window against the door top frame too i am still preparing an alternative rubber part for the NLA one in the weatherstrip, so my experience finishes here, but i assume that now i will have to assembly the outer weatherstrip, then the inner one that carries the wood trim part too then the door foil (this will not be done for some weeks while testing that all works correctly) then the door panel, and then the arm support, the door handle, the window lifter handle, the ashtray ....und das ist alles !