Spare wheel well repair

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On mine this has been patched and then repatched badly. I guess the ideal solution is a replacement floorpan $350US plus freight to NZ -Ouch! Not many donor cars down here either. Apologies to the purists but i was thinking of cutting the well out of another make of car and graft it in - has anyone done this? Thoughts or other solutions gratefully recieved!

[Tommy]

Totally depends on you -what's your target. If you really want it right...or if you're happy with something less...

One thing more to think is that replacing the whole floorpan isn't really an easy job because it doesn't fit to it's place from up or down. You need to at least remove the rear panel and still I'm not sure how it goes in. If you can find a good replacement well or maybe just do better patching it's whole lot easier job.

Tommy

[tim385]

Yes e21 fits ok , cut as much as you can out of the donor car , when you put it next to the 2002 one youll see its pretty close .

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Thanks for the tip, ill look out for E21s as well although not many of them in NZ either! Would be nice to keep it BMW but may have to widen my search