I rebuilt mine, it was a lot of work, and the cost of plating and foam, if you don't mind, how much are they charging you? you could PM
Seriously! Ohhh boy should have called the Don first.....first timer never learns.
Prices start around $1,400 but can escalate if additional work is needed to fix heater core etc.
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I am at the exact same stage. But after contemplating what looks deceivingly simple I realized I better let someone who has done this before do it. So I dropped it off last week with someone who actually knows what he’s doing.I have my heater out now as well. Looks like I may need at least 1 Bowden cable. These have 1 end that fastens through a bolt with a hole in it, pretty common. But the other end is a 3 coil loop that slips over the end of a rod. This is the unusual part. I expect someone here has had to replace one of these cables in the past, and wonder if you found anything like the originals. NLA at BMW or W&N. Possible to improvise some wire rope product, but extra steps. This heater project is 1 lengthy drop down window of cleaning, repairing, gluing, and so on. It has helped me almost forget how hard this was to remove, but anxiety is already building just thinking of the day it all goes back in
I thought the same thing until I really started examining and realizing I was way out of my league and there are far more qualified people able to do this better and quicker than me. I would have just ended up with a huge box of parts that someone else would have had to reassemble.
