[bo.benson]

Well I bought a nice 07 335i a couple of weeks ago that was wrecked in the front and have been part searching ever since just trying to get it back on the road for my girlfriend. I'm not new to body work or mechanic work by any means, but this is my first BMW. My closest BMW dealership is an hour away and have had little to no luck on them finding half the parts I need. Insurance stripped the front of the car, for frame damage purposes I'm guessing, so I have been blindly ordering parts off diagrams. I've done well at getting the right parts for the car thanks to realoem.com but there is a few parts that I cannot find on any diagram. I got the spearco intercooler in today and I'm missing some sort of part upon trying to mount it. When set in place under the car there is about a 2-3" gap between the mounting flanges and the radiator carrier brackets. I took a look at scalbert's install of his intercooler back in 2008 and found the bracket I think I'm needing. But yet no BMW dealership I've talked to yet can find it on a diagram either. Also I'm lacking what holds the radiator, condenser, and intercooler assembly to the frame. The BMW dealer in Memphis, TN gave me "everything to mount the radiator in the car", but upon looking at it, it was nowhere near everything I need. What I got was the radiator cradles L/R(17107524912, 17107524914), Lower Cooler Brackets L/R(17117524956), Upper Rubber screw brackets L/R(17117514402), Lower Rubber mounting L/R(17117525267), And what's called a rubber mounting(17427553777). Any help would be greatly appreciated. And I look forward to learning a lot about these cars in this forum as well as contributing later on.

-Bo Benson

Just to give you an idea of what I started with.



The picture I edited of scalbert's.

[FLA 335]

man i wish i could help but this is beyond me!!!

[bo.benson]

Originally Posted by FLA 335

man i wish i could help but this is beyond me!!!

Yea it really has me stumped too, I sent the modded pic of scalberts to memphis and little rock bmw to see if they could id the part. I'm going to Little Rock Thursday though, and they have a couple used 335's on the lot. Perhaps I can persuade them to let a tech take the three skidplate bolts out of the bumper where I can see the part numbers on these pieces and they can make some money off me. If they won't do that then again I'm back to the drawing board. Then looks as if I'll be breaking out some steel, the chop saw, and the welder to be fabricating some parts to get these things on.

[bo.benson]

I know someone will have the undercover off their car that can look at the outside of the part to get me the number off of it. Or possibly even take a pic.

[alextremo]

Try PM'ng some of the intercooler vendors, I'm guessing they've been in that area once or twice...

[bo.benson]

Thanks for the idea..I'll give a few a call.

[bo.benson]

Figured the situation out today. Drove 2 hours to Little Rock and they had a few in the collision shop at the stealership. Luckily one happened to be a 335 with the front bumper off. Looked at it for a while and got to noticing the size of the radiator. Grabbed a tape measure from the tech and low and behold the radiator and condenser is roughly 4.5" shorter. Problem solved. Dealership gave me one for a NA car possibly, maybe a 328 or something even though the carrier brackets are the same for either car and the carrier brackets are what I had pictured that I was looking for. They just are more exposed with 4" of radiator not there.