M30B35 in Windsor Pick and Pull

Mike Goble

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Just came out on my Row52 notifications. 1990 535i 5 speed.

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If you don’t know the Windsor boneyard- be advised it is a swimming pool during rainy conditions. Wear your waders……
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What's the car on the flatbed? Maybe a two car project that was abandoned?
 
Could those be real BBS RSs?

Most reps have far too few bolts, which is what makes them very easy to spot to the trained eye. I would hazard that these are genuine 34 bolt BBS RS, or a genuine 80’s Japanese wheel of similar design.

They also look like 17’s, which genuine BBS would put them in the $4K+ restored bracket.

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could be style 5's ?

I have a picker heading over to pull the harness and check the wheels.
 
Not Style 5's. The wheels on that car have an angled surface before the bolts and outer lip, like the one Marcos posted.
 
could be style 5's ?

I have a picker heading over to pull the harness and check the wheels.
Could those be real BBS RSs?
They take the wheels off the car before they put it out in the yard. If you're lucky the yard manager will let you sort through the mountain of wheels they have in another area of the yard.
 
For the record..
I sent a crew in and pulled the engine and tranny. The tranny was hamburger and the block was cracked.
The guy at the desk had no idea where the wheels went.
Total cost- 880.00 and I'm hoping the head is usable. Losing money is part of being in business.

Not a good part.
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Headlights look to be smileys too.
They’re just ellipsoids from what I see.
Most reps have far too few bolts, which is what makes them very easy to spot to the trained eye. I would hazard that these are genuine 34 bolt BBS RS, or a genuine 80’s Japanese wheel of similar design.

They also look like 17’s, which genuine BBS would put them in the $4K+ restored bracket.

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they look like 16s to me. I have had both the 17s (RS212 and RS198) and the lip profile looks like an 005,006 or 061.
 
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