E36 M3 Evo Front Bumper Stolen

[r5gttgaz]

Some people on the E30 sites have had there E30 Evo bumpers stolen in the same manner, again £1000+ to replace.

[Raify]

dick dastardly said:

Same thing happened to my E36 M3 front bumper last year and they took the back one also. The job (parts along with fitting and spraying) cost almost £1K to fix. Tell your mate to get the replacements from eBay and make sure they're the official parts. BMW want extortionate money for them and the 'replica' ones don't fit, as I found out.

But if you buy them from Ebay, aren't you just perpetuating the cycle of theft? Shirley most of the Ebay bumpers are stolen?

[dick dastardly]

Raify said:

dick dastardly said: Same thing happened to my E36 M3 front bumper last year and they took the back one also. The job (parts along with fitting and spraying) cost almost £1K to fix. Tell your mate to get the replacements from eBay and make sure they're the official parts. BMW want extortionate money for them and the 'replica' ones don't fit, as I found out. But if you buy them from Ebay, aren't you just perpetuating the cycle of theft? Shirley most of the Ebay bumpers are stolen?

Possibly but my main concern was getting the car back to one piece and then selling it. I could either have bought the parts on eBay for £500 or from BMW for double that.

I did buy ones from a guy local to me so if it turned out they were stolen I could do something about it.

I did try a few breakers and BMW specialist scrap yards but when I told them the parts I wanted they just laughed. Seems they're quite rare.

[wiggy001]

Towards the end of last year I had the rear bumper, side skirts, side strips and mirror glass (?!) stolen from my E36 cabriolet. Can only assume they bottled it before getting the front bumper. Went through the insurance as I couldn't stomach the £1980 bill from BMW to rectify. This was in Southeast London/ North West Kent area.

Seems to me that a lot of people can now afford to buy a car such as mine but can't afford to maintain them, hence the trade in stolen parts for an older car. Either that or scrotes buying 318is and wanting to make them look like an M3

[andysv]

i too looked on ebay, but decided there was no way i would buy one, they all looked dodgy. the two main bolts are undone from underneth the bumper, there must be a way to lock them, they have a ribbed spline type end, if that's changed the buggers wont get it off. i'm working on it.