Burgundrot E28 524td restoration

[E28fredrik]

This is the story of my -83 BMW 524td restoration!

My car is a original 1983 524 turbodiesel with automatic gearbox and 88 000 km on the counter, Burgundrot metallic, and black/grey fabric interior..

former owner of the car is a old couple who had the car since the car was new, then an acquaintance of me bought it from them, had it for some years until he crashed it
after a while i bought the wreck of him to get it a new life!

these cars are very rare with that engine.. i looked it up at the registration office, and it turned out to be only 15 registered 524td left in norway..

so I decided to give it a full restoration.. plus some more!



when i got it to my workshop, it looked like this:





rust on the jack mount





new parts from bmw



and got it back from the body shop:








now is the car fixed after the crash.. next is getting all the rust go bye bye

more to come..

[Nick475]

yes! burgundrot and diesel! good luck with the build. cant wait to see how it turns out

[240t]

Her skal jeg følge med!

[OhNoozz]

Love the color!

[superturbodiesel.com]

This project is tits, I promise to all forum members<3

[Thom]

Personally would have reshelled it. Keen to see this fixed. looking good so far tho dude!

[E28fredrik]

yes! burgundrot and diesel! good luck with the build. cant wait to see how it turns out

Her skal jeg følge med!

Love the color!

This project is tits, I promise to all forum members<3

Personally would have reshelled it. Keen to see this fixed. looking good so far tho dude!

hey! thanks you all

ive done a lot more work than i post here! but in another thread so i just gonna lay out some pictures of the procedure so far

here is the wheels i was planing to use on the car! but sold them to use the money on another wheel project, which i will show you later

oh well.. here they are





But! back to the car!

i made this car tilt, to get easier access under the body..





now it is easy to get the body from washing to sandblasting, welding and painting..

here i am steaming too get off the rust protection.. crappy job!



now a bit welding!































it is alot more work behind this.. but i just show you a bit of it..!

next time:

[rsingh3g]

This is going to be great. Im subscribing

[softg]

yeah yeah, me too

[Marsss]

This will be a great car! Nice work man

[E28fredrik]

thank you all!

now im gonna show you a bit of my painting :P

id used the 3M body protection structure, and 2 component epoxy priming...










and then.. i paint with a `harder` non metallic paint.. it was hard to find the exact similar color to the Burgundrot metallic.. but i think it matches enough..

the color is a bit darker in real life than on the pictures i ensure you

[nickskater09]

With the amount of work you've put into just the rust removal, I am anxiously awaiting for where this build will go. Props to you man because I probably should do all of the things you are now.

[B Rod]

One hell of a restoration! Keep up the great work.

[05subysti]

woah now that is dedication! many people wouldve scrapped the car in the condition you received it in especially with all the rust. I give you props. and cannot wait to see more updates

[e39hamann]

Wow big props to you! I can't wait to see where this goes