BMWi3s Frunk Sealing

hi welcome to another video on the i3 what i'm going to do is seal the front area with this door sealer i've got from amazon it's pretty good it's got 3m tape on it as well so i'm going to stick that around the front area yeah i've already got a piece here as you can see which is uh doing not too bad of a job at the moment i'm just fed up with all the leaves and everything they got stuck in here and under there you can you can put your hand in there and get them out but it's annoying they always always get stuck and trapped around here as well anyway i'll uh put the camera on the stand and i'll show you how it's fitted right as you can actually see when the bonnet shuts you can literally come down the side here and you can see right through the other side you can see that too well you can see right right through the uh i think it's sealed it's healed around the front but not very well you can see there you go you can see the straight through there so what i'm going to be doing is sealing it right along this this section okay what here going to do first is prep the area and get it nice and clean so it's just a matter of putting some alcohol on the surface and cleaning it get it nice and clean and just take the seal cut them to size and what we need to do is just start from here if i just uh pop that on there pretty good stuff this it's uh pretty cheap as well so what i'll do is i'll just i'm just going to do this roughly for the time being just to show you roughly what it it's capable of doing and that's it so when i shut the bonnet now just take this stand off the uh turn off the stand you'll see that when i shut the bonnet it will compress it's just going a little bit here but you can see it's quite compressed there and on here as well so that should seal it to a certain degree the only other another place i was thinking of putting it is at the top here as you can see there's a very narrow gap there it's not enough to stick it on i could put it on here but there's a it's a piece of rubber here which does press up against that so really if i put the uh seal along here it should seal it quite well along the headlight there or the only other option is to possibly stick it in that sort of a position and we'll try and see if it it's any better i prefer it on the bonnet actually as i'm just doing this roughly just to get an idea of how good it seals [Music] yeah basically the same yeah i think that might be the better way to go actually they do do different sizes this is the i think it's a 10 pill this one 10 millimeters they do they're 15 millimeters there's some sort of flap on there but still this is just this front bit for now seems to be doing a good job i've ordered some new titanium wheel bolts so they're coming from the us at the moment from acer racing so these ones will these ones will be for sale soon um there's 35 mil at the front and 45 at the rear because i've got five mil spaces on the front and 18mm spacers on the back they're really really nice nice wheel bolts they are very light as you see in one of my other videos you can see i've done their weight comparison on there compared to the original ones and hopefully i'm going to be getting the uh the alloy wheels i've got the uh original set i had from there i bought the car they're in black i'm going to have them done in carbon fibre i'm just trying to source a good reputable hydro dipping place that will do that this side skirts i put on earlier these actually got from a h a carbon.com they're based in hong kong excellent excellent quality i've got the rear diffuser as well off of them if you look in one of my other videos you can see unfair i've made in my own towbar system there as well on my bike rack yeah it's all coming together slowly and these are these are caliper covers which i put on and they're brilliant i painted the calipers on my last car they're awful so much prep needs to go into doing it and then they get just get dirty these are just nice and easy to clean i had to put a five mil spacer um when i first ordered these i was speaking to the guys in china and he sent me this set over but unfortunately with no spaces at the front the wheel scraped the caliper cover so i had to put a five mil spacer in there didn't really want to put any spacers at the front but i'd settle for five mil in the end just to clear that caliper so that that clears it quite well he did actually send me another set so uh he knocked one of the pillars off yes so they wouldn't rub but i got these so i'll keep them on alright well thanks for watching and uh i'll let you know this uh modification goes hopefully i shouldn't have any more leaves inside the front area they're annoying to keep clean

Channel: BMW i3 Christopher Emmanuel M7UAE

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Id: Kv10yIrYKiE

Length: 7min 24sec (444 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 23 2022