How many do you have?Good to know, what else can I sell you? A manual shifter platform perhaps?
How many do you have?Good to know, what else can I sell you? A manual shifter platform perhaps?
Have two. The second would be a lease because I am using it.How many do you have?
The transverse screw is machine threaded. The fwd-aft screw is a sheet metal screw that screws into the plastic block. My car was jerry-rigged with alum. strips that held on the chrome outer "hockey stick". The tech that worked for the Werke Shop saw the missing blocks and told me how to correct the assembly when he adjusted the rear quarter windows. Here's a pic of the missing block on the driver side with the alum strip wallowed out by the fwd-aft screw.you put the block on the edge of metal, a transverse screw holds the block to the car, the fwd-aft screw holds the chrome trim to the block
The transverse screw is machine threaded.
I agree with you.I would love to get a second opinion on this. I thought both screws were sheetmetal, the transverse one zinc and the longitudinal one chrome.
or cadmium and stainless steel, new nuts and bolts are generally zinc to replace the toxic cadmiumI agree with you.
your photo does make it look like it should be a machine screw, also makes sense as the block is reversible, if the hole for the screw was the same size on both sides a sheet metal screw would not work too well, E9 minutia at its finest!The experts have spoken!! When you look at my pic, you can see the transverse hole is thicker than the rest of the metal. I actually broke off a sheet metal screw on the passenger side. I then used an M4 tap to clean the threads for the machine screw. That's my car. I wanted others to know to carefully look at their metal hole before attempting to screw on the plastic block. This all goes with the fact that almost every car on the Forum is not owned by the original owner. I would be curious to know if any E9 is still with the original owner. Things were done to these cars 30-40 years ago when they were just old cars by amateurs and professional mechanics that had no internet or YouTube as guidance. And who knows what was done to keep them running? All of the things done on my '72 2002 were done by me with the help of the blue shop manual,the shop parts book, and those monthly "Roundels" from the BMWCCA. I'm sure the E9's have lots of things done back then that were not up to the REAL OEM standards of today.