Saturday, February 25, 2012

Driver's side (rotten) floor(s)

BMW120225-01 BMW120225-02 BMW120225-03 BMW120225-04
BMW120225-05 BMW120225-06
BMW120225-07 BMW120225-08 BMW120225-09 BMW120225-10
BMW120225-11 BMW120225-12 BMW120225-13
BMW120225-14

The passenger's side floor was bad, but to me the left side seems even worse. Last week I almost got the left floor out. By that I mean the pop-riveted in repair panel. Today I got it out.

I saw that it would be easier to get the floor out if I removed the rubber (?) transmission tunnel cover. The bottom edge overlapped the floor, and the whole thing looked like it was ready to fall apart. Found a layer of foam rubber under the heavy rubber. Under that, in some places, was a layer of really stiff mystery muck. I decided to leave that alone.

BMW120225-15 BMW120225-16 BMW120225-17
BMW120225-18 BMW120225-19 BMW120225-20
BMW120225-21
BMW120225-22 BMW120225-23 BMW120225-24 BMW120225-25

Much to my surprise there was another rotten mess underneath. Where the right side had a thick layer of tar, the outer half of the left floor was rubble. When I removed that I found original floor, which doesn't look all that bad.


posted from Bloggeroid

No comments: