The 2014 Alpina D3 Touring with *almost* moon mileage

[Waitey]

Falcuono said:

Is this something?

Sadly that’s just a 335i differential.

The Alpina one would have the front flange I need in it. From looking at the flex that is a 105mm centre one.

Thanks for looking though.

[Waitey]

Watchthis said:

I'd be tempted to chuck the old parts back together with a healthy dose of loctite or chemical metal on the splines and get it through it's 300k barrier. Not really

I was also tempted, till I saw the lack of splines on the input shaft of the diff!!

[Waitey]

Looks like I better get it fixed asap.

Good morning,

Congratulations, you've been accepted into our Readers' Cars display at our Annual Service at Bicester Heritage on Saturday 10th August!

[NomadicTurbo]

Waitey said:

Looks like I better get it fixed asap.

Good morning,

Congratulations, you've been accepted into our Readers' Cars display at our Annual Service at Bicester Heritage on Saturday 10th August!

Great news.

Look forward to seeing the P16 PRO in person

[SteBrown91]

NomadicTurbo said:

Great news.

Look forward to seeing the P16 PRO in person

I used to work round the corner from Sytner Nottingham when it was for sale @ 220k (I think) and walked past it on my lunch break. It was in very nice condition then and judging by the 48 pages of this thread is now even better! Still shocked they AUC'd it though.

[RazerSauber]

Good luck on the search. It looks like you're trying to keep it all OEM but is it worth contacting someone like Quaife to see if they've got the right bits?

[Waitey]

Took the flange to show a machine shop today.

They said they'd fill the holes with weld and redrill at 110 centres.

Seemed a simple solution.

[stickylabels]

Hopefully that will work out for you fella!

[Stedman]

Waitey said:

Looks like I better get it fixed asap.

Good morning,

Congratulations, you've been accepted into our Readers' Cars display at our Annual Service at Bicester Heritage on Saturday 10th August!

Funnily enough last night I had the thought it should be entered.

[Waitey]

I've caved.

Some chinese fella is making me a new one. Lets hope my CAD measurement drawings and his English are good enough to get this done!

$15

I can't lie, he seems legit



He's promised some photo's once he's finished it.

[Waitey]

No f**king way. Had a Chinese update.

“Just finished machine back engage spline, send out tomorrow”



They deffo make the blanks for the EU haha, crafty little Chinese man.

I salute you.

[Ed.Neumann]

Haha, nice!

It is a shame we have spent the last few decades telling our kids "You don't want to make anything, you need to be in finance or IT."

[ATM]

Ed.Neumann said:

Haha, nice!

It is a shame we have spent the last few decades telling our kids "You don't want to make anything, you need to be in finance or IT."

You don't want to make anything if you can find a competent China man who can make it for you and only change you peanuts. Any UK business would change you more just for answering some emails.

Side Note
The new AI stuff coming will put lots of finance and IT types out of work.

[Stedman]

Waitey said:

I've caved.

Haha!

[Gallons Per Mile]

Wow! Where did you find said man in China to help? That's brilliant. Fingers crossed it's made of decent quality metal and will last.

[ATM]

Gallons Per Mile said:

Wow! Where did you find said man in China to help? That's brilliant. Fingers crossed it's made of decent quality metal and will last.

It's $15 so it will be excellent

[Mij91]

ATM said:

It's $15 so it will be excellent

But what if it is? Because if so we should genuinely be scared, you can't get this sort of thing in this country anymore, and it's sad.

[leglessAlex]

Mij91 said:

ATM said:

It's $15 so it will be excellent

But what if it is? Because if so we should genuinely be scared, you can't get this sort of thing in this country anymore, and it's sad.

You absolutely can, you just need to pay for it, which most people either don’t want to or even just plain can’t afford to do.

I use a place called Atomic Precision for work, as we’re strongly discouraged from getting things from China (I’m civil service, sort of), and they’re excellent.

There’s a lot of manufacturing in the UK still, it’s just not the sort of thing that usually finds it’s way into cars or home projects.

[Mij91]

That's good to know, maybe we should start a thread with all the companies in that are willing to do small scale jobs with CAD etc as it could serve to be useful in this community?

[Bobupndown]

I would have welded the old one on!