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Colors and Finishes of Subframes and Suspension


oh2ryan

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List updated. Thank you everyone! Sending my stuff out this week. Another reason I was asking was when ordering some of these parts new or finding NOS some of the finished vary. I believe my pitman arms and radius rods and various brackets came to me cad plated, etc and have the gold finish that didn’t look correct. 

-Ryan

05/87 M3 Hennarot

04/71 2002tii Baikal

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8 hours ago, oh2ryan said:

...Another reason I was asking was when ordering some of these parts new or finding NOS some of the finished vary. I believe my pitman arms and radius rods and various brackets came to me cad plated, etc and have the gold finish that didn’t look correct. 

 

That’s a good point, Ryan. Lots of replacement parts have finishes different from the original parts.

 

U.S. rear license plate brackets appear to generally be black in their replacement form. But my ‘76’s was clearly gray from the factory (first photo below).

 

A real teaser for me were the rear subframe mounts. I bought the pair shown below (second and third photos) at the same time, in 1983, for the future rebuild of the ‘76. Square taillights, I must add, originally used left and right versions of these mounts — the internal rubbers were clocked 45 degrees in opposite directions to increase lateral (or was it longitudinal?) stability. Clearly one mount is gray, the other is black. I assumed they were simply from different batches. I learned here, on this forum, however, that the different colors were consciously used so that technicians could distinguish the two (slightly) different parts.

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

 

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1976 2002 Polaris, 2742541 (original owner)

1973 2002tii Inka, 2762757 (not-the-original owner)

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4 hours ago, uai said:

RAL 7043

 

I'm in the final stretch of refreshing my dirty grey rear subframe and I wanted to match the front subframe.

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Here's the result powder-coated in RAL 7043 and gloss black.

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73 Inka Tii #2762958

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15 hours ago, AceAndrew said:

 

 

On very dry cars you can still find remnants of the original front subframe part stickers.  They are either stuck to the underside of the frame rail or on top of the subframe.  I've never seen one complete, but I've seen partial pieces on several "virgin" subframes when removed.  Have a couple pictures, will try to dig them out.

What I found between the subframe and the RS frame rail of the 69

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Jim Gerock

 

Riviera 69 2002 built 5/30/69 "Oscar"

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4 hours ago, jgerock said:

What I found between the subframe and the RS frame rail of the 69

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Maybe a label applied to a stack of subframes, which they didn’t bother to remove before bolting the subframe on the top of the stack to your car?

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

 

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1976 2002 Polaris, 2742541 (original owner)

1973 2002tii Inka, 2762757 (not-the-original owner)

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On 3/18/2019 at 10:20 AM, PaulTWinterton said:

 

I'm in the final stretch of refreshing my dirty grey rear subframe and I wanted to match the front subframe.

Subframe.jpg.03068edd2b2e0f7189402f05b096ed58.jpg

 

Here's the result powder-coated in RAL 7043 and gloss black.

RearSubFrame3.thumb.jpg.d5561a6e72d7be70165a1855960b8ff9.jpg

 

 

Hi Paul, it's a little hard to tell, but from your pictures the paint appears more grey than the olive black my subframe (11/70 build).  From UAI's post, I thought he was describing the color RAL7043 to be olive.  Would you say yours is olive in person, or is it just gray? 

1971 Riviera 2002 ("Kate")

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Hi

 

Sorry but Paul is no longer with us, he passed away last year, one of my best friends   

 

I know his car very well       The 7043 is a bluish gray which is correct       BMW used 3 different colors for the subframes    bluish gray, an olive gray and black     No real rhyme or reason for the diff colors other than what was available or cost at the time

 

Thanks, |Rick

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Thank you for responding Rick,

   I’m sorry to hear about this. I’ve been coming across Paul’s posts a lot lately- he clearly contributed a lot to our community. I wish I had the opportunity to meet him in person. 
   Thank you,

    John. 

1971 Riviera 2002 ("Kate")

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