E39 roof skin

E39 roof skin

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Mike231177

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2 posts

109 months

Friday 27th March 2015
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Anyone know where I can get a roof skin for a e39 bmw as mine needs replacing but cannot find a supplier online any help

RichardM5

1,736 posts

136 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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The BMW part number is 41 31 8 185 764 for sun roof, 41 31 8 204 880 for no sun roof. Ring up a dealer and see what the list price is, then see how much you can get off. I'd think on those parts you'd be looking at 20%+, maybe even 30%, and sometimes they are not as much as you'd expect. You could also try BMMiniParts, they will give a reasonable discount (17.5% usually) but a dealer will be able to better it.

Probably quite a difficult item to remove from a car at a scrapyard and not damage so much in the process that it's not really usable.

4rephill

5,040 posts

178 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Realoem quote $1105 for the roof skin with the sunroof aperture, and $964 for the roof skin without a sunroof aperture ( http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=DN63... ).

As a general rule of thumb, if you change the $ sign for a £ sign then that's somewhere around what you will pay at BMW.

(NOTE: Before anyone posts that it's not always totally accurate, no it's not but it gives a decent idea of the cost of parts in £'s).


Removing the old roof skin and fitting a new roof skin + painting it is going to be a very labour intensive process and if you can't do it yourself, the end cost will probably be at least three the cost of the part.




pits

6,429 posts

190 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Why?