Alpina Restoration

Oh my! Good luck and looking forward to seeing updates

At least you don't appear to have any dreaded rust issues! Good luck and looking forward to seeing the result.

You still have the head-light covers to remove and be sure to protect the orange sticker in the trunk sill as they are no-longer available.

What sticker is that?

The sticker that says: Mind you, two batteries installed! and that no Japanese has ever read or understood
Mine had a 1996 and a 2003 battery installed when purchased in 2005. Admittedly it is a little awkward having to remove the CD-player only to check a battery but isn´t the same true for the plugs in holes 6 and 12

To me this car looks perfect already but it is indeed known that garage space in Japan is rare and cars seem to be spending all their life playing outside with expected results for the paint.

Cheers
Reinhard

My sticker was mising so i bought a replacement one a few years ago and stuck it on. Then spotted its stuck inside the glove box

If the sticker still is in good legible condition it may be worthwhile (for the sake of having it appear like ex-factory) to take a good digital shot of it and print this onto a self adhesive sheet. This way you don´t need to prep anything around the old sticker.
Same applies to other stickers - possibly some in Japanese writing - liberally spread throughout the car. Today´s home office printers will easily match the quality of the early 90´s.

Nobody will notice and I won´t tell

Cheere
Reinhard

There was a bod at Gaydon last year flogging complete sticker sets for the 8 series. Replicas obviously
Reminds me of the time I went to a motorcycle show on my Suzuki GT750 from 1974. I had put a sticker ,original, on the rear mudguard but was told by two pillocks that it was about 5mm too low. I refrained from replying

Zitat von rogbmw;96975

Here are some pictures of how the car looks today, and I will update this thead with new pictures as they come along.

I can't see any pictures

Reinhard, help please!

In what year did they start putting clear coat on these cars?

Cheers
Graham

I see them. Twice now.

Maybe clearing your Internet cache or reloading the page of the browser helps.

It has nothing to do with EU-politics though - this board is in Switzerland

Non-metallic paint did not receive clear coats until... ... late.
Brillantrot almost certainly always came without. Hellrot may have come with.

Reinhard

Zitat von reinhard;97002

Maybe clearing your Internet cache or reloading the page of the browser helps.

tried both of those and nothing. All I see is a tiny little blue box with a question mark in it?

I have been seeing this quite a bit lately (never used to) and clicking on it directs me to log in again upon which I can see the pictures, but not this time.

Any other ideas?

Understood - this seems to relate to the old thing we will probably never be able to get rid of. Most non German users login through 8er.org, whereas the others and seemingly also Roger go through 8er.ch. Although the contents are the same they are stored using a different domain name. Coming from an 8er.org link towards something inside the 8er.ch name space requires a new login (and vice versa).
I have not seen this with direct attachments or links embedded into postings so far but have sent a message to Martin/Christoph to check when time permits. Probably something that broke during the last forum software update.

Cheers
Reinhard

PS: what happens if you access the forum through http://www.8er.org and read this posting? (You will probably need to adjust langiage preferences once)

Zitat von reinhard;97008

PS: what happens if you access the forum through http://www.8er.org and read this posting? (You will probably need to adjust langiage preferences once)

Straight in

Is there no limit to your talents Reinhard,

Thanks a lot,

Cheers
Graham

Zitat von sandwich;96997

There was a bod at Gaydon last year flogging complete sticker sets for the 8 series. Replicas obviously
Reminds me of the time I went to a motorcycle show on my Suzuki GT750 from 1974. I had put a sticker ,original, on the rear mudguard but was told by two pillocks that it was about 5mm too low. I refrained from replying

I'd have kicked em both in the boll8cks teach em for being nobs

Did wind me up a tad!

I look forward to following the restoration process Roger.

How does one achieve same resistance to paint chips as with factory paint? I have only ever seen an increased sensitivity to stone chipping for resprayed vs factory paint cars, but there has to be some expert automotive paintshops out there with the ability to formulate, apply and cure paint and clear coats to factory standards or better when we are talking about resistance to chipping.

Best,
Michael