V12 BMW E38 750iL Restoration - Project Dubai: Home Stretch - Part 6

Homestretch with this E38! In this one, we tie up loose ends and replace knock sensors, front brakes and fix pixels in the cluster. Then start with the makeover of the exterior by removing dents with PDR, touch up the paint, remove bumpers and side skirts to be repainted.
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For those of you with a keen eye, who are wondering why a Japanese specification car would be left-hand drive, when the Japanese drive on the left like we do here in the United Kingdom... ...for some strange reason (that I still don't fully understand), owning a left-hand drive car is seen as a huge "social status symbol" in Japan. When I was building and retrofitting cars at Aston Martin, the combination of a left-hand drive car with right-hand headlamps always caused some slight confusion on the production lines... Deano 🤓 Former Aston Martin Test Driver, Major Rectification Technician and EDL/EOL. P.S. Another excellent video! Thank you and keep up the good work!

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When the next episode of E60 M5?

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I owned a few bikes and done some extensive work on some of them - like putting a full exhaust on, AIS removal, valve clearances etc. I cannot believe how calm you are throughout all of those tasks. You also seem to have the fingers of a brain surgeon because I broke an insane amount of all those plastic tabs, clips etc. Every time I look at taking a plastic components apart I have a knot in my stomach lol. Congratulations, you're doing an amazing work.

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Car is as easily as safely liftable with any doorskirt attached to crane .... it's a Bimmer after all. (Which translates into "unnecessarily difficult to work on", as usual in Bimmers ....)

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@@manfredschmalbach9023 agree with you on the point of unnecessarily difficult to work on... Took me about 1 hour just to change a lightbulb on an F30 due to needing to remove the interior trim

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[@gtek8021]

I loved absolutely every minute of that restoration the E38 is one of the best cars ever built by BMW when they were at the top of there game. Truly "The Ultimate Driving Machine" and in silver it is perfection.

[@HeIvetikate]

still waiting for the M5 update....

[@weavingshroud]

E60? If yes then he said he will continue on that when project dubai is over

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Careful what you wish for, once you start with an M5, you never finish...

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[@kamikaze5262]

You are a hell of a mechanic. No words

[@chinmaybhat820]

How was the contact surface of the screen that dirty tho 💀

[@tostimofo]

He mentioned that from the factory they're glued together, and the glue goes bad over the years. That's why the fix-kit instructed to just press the contacts together with the spacers.

[@TheWholeOfTerror]

I had to change a left-back lightbulbe. I got my hair looking great and it worked!. Best advice ever!.

[@gamleole9568]

I admire people who’s wiling to spend effort on those cars. They are endless money pits and the germans aren’t exactly giving away their crappy plastic parts.

[@link18953]

Brilliant work Streten, possibly an evolution of your channel could be coaching other people who have bought an e38 for restoration with no car experience, a zero to hero e38 program.

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Daaaamn, taking a E38 to the Nürburgring. Can this guy get even more awesome?

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dude, your videos are so satisfying to watch, I always watch your videos while eating something, like a pizza or a snack...

[@VinceroAlpha]

I couldn’t believe it, but you cranked up your attention to detail past OCD levels! Time for me to get to work, thanks for the inspiration.

[@ChrisFredriksson]

Oh wow.. when you said next episode.. I thought like, HEEY.. only 5 minutes has passed, the episode can't be done yet.. Oh well.. can't wait for next! Awesome video as always!