Getting A “No Start” Bank Repo Alpina B7 Running & Driving Perfectly For $50! Dealer Auction ERROR!

hey guys welcome back to legit three cars and i'm just gonna start this off with a little rant but like 75 of the car shippers from car auctions they are horrible with letting you know when your car is gonna arrive so this car was bought and paid for a few weeks ago they said they picked it up a week ago and that's it now apparently it's right in front of my shop so max just let me know that a blue alpena bmw is is on a truck right now so anyway let's go see what we got all right here we go we got a tycon beautiful color and here we are a b7 alpena 2011 i love the color okay this thing was definitely keyed apparently so this is a bank repo car i'll tell you guys all about it once we get it off of the trailer but it was listed as a run and drive this was a big cluster and then the original driver went to go get it and it wouldn't run and drive and no one knew what was wrong with it i i don't even know at this point what's going on they're hooking up a jumper to it right now okay it runs and it doesn't sound like it has a rod knock which is always good no rod knocks is what we like here at legit three cars this car has a hundred thousand miles bank repossessed and from the interior pictures on the auction site it just looks like someone just partied it up in this car knowing it was gonna get repossessed oh yeah it's not running the best oh this is gonna be a basket case i'm so excited so the back glass was uh busted out as you can see here oh man that's not good i really hope water didn't get in but i don't see how it couldn't have these are such cool cars when they're new but unfortunately your typical life cycle of one of these cars is the first owner really loves it they spend like 125 thousand dollars on it and then by the time it hits like the third or fourth owner they just don't realize how expensive they are to maintain and everything just goes downhill from there okay this is running so bad right now oh look at this i mean when it gets to the point where you're treating your car like this you haven't done any of the maintenance any of the repairs yeah we got a flat tire here they're michelin pilot super sports these are really expensive look at these big brakes 21 inch that one's good that one's good so we just got to get some air in the other one uh it's all dry rotted these are probably super old what happens to people when they start treating a car like this so poorly if you can look past its deficiencies this is absolutely beautiful and although it is misfiring really bad we're not getting any smoke out of here any oil burning anything like that just got done signing off on the shipment wow this thing is shaking so bad it's in gear we're driving it is a run and drive when you buy a car at an auction if it's listed as running drive lot driving is what they mean i mean sometimes they might run well but it just has to move a little bit on its own power i'm halfway down on the gas right now we're barely making it whoa all right we got the car back in the shop let's see if this will open power assist doesn't work what do we got going on in here got some cheap floor mats sweet i don't know that's water that's not good oh no oh no you got to be kidding me it reeks in here this water's had we've been sitting for a very long time that's kind of cool though why why if it was just protected a little bit better in the back this wouldn't have happened oh no look at this oh there we go cool look at that we're ahead of the game already we got the little rear bumper piece that's missing now you just go like that oh are you kidding me look at that we've basically already rebuilt the entire thing that looks so good okay that looks like a little hand that's kind of weird um hopefully nothing jumps out at me i don't know if this is factory but this is actually pretty cool looking like how they integrated that into the seat a lot of times like on my escalade it just looks after market that might be aftermarket i don't know a cool suede headliner this is a total mystery auction car sight unseen this was from a dealer auction in detroit this thing definitely seems like it's been beaten up quite a bit i gotta say though the seats are in really good condition i mean this is really dirty but this will definitely clean up just needs a couple vents the screen's not smashed in the cluster looks good the steering wheel is a little beat up this is hilarious it's got the six disc changer or however many discs that is right there aside from the water and it misfiring i'm kind of okay with this car so far we're obviously going to put it up on the lift and oh we got to scan it for codes i really don't want to run it anymore with it misfiring and then i'll i'll tell you all about this i haven't really even explained to you anything really about this car but i will in a minute i'm just so eager to dig in all right so we got the alpena in the stall i want to hook up a battery charger before we start checking for codes since this had to be jumped off let's take this out see what else we're dealing with okay so here's the battery 419. okay not bad so about a three-year-old mopar battery we'll get a charger going on there and let's see here oh no so the battery is literally sitting in water we have what might be like a battery control unit or no that's a relay that definitely got wet right there this stuff probably got wet as well oh yeah oh yeah wonderful this may have gotten wet probably got wet oh yeah even this is wet too not good at all oh there's more of course there's more there's probably like a hundred modules on this car i'm gonna go ahead and assume like the radio doesn't work it's probably got an amplifier that's sitting in water great [Music] how much would it take for you to drink that ew that is so gross they say these are the fanciest fasteners i've ever seen i wonder if this is an alpena thing oh yeah this is all wet all this wiring is wet green fuzz green floods green fuzz huh okay it's nice what is this guy uh a little blue stuff okay looking pretty clean so far there's definitely water in here but i don't know i might take all this apart and dry it ah the irony do not spill liquids or carry leaking containers and trunk electrical components may be damaged okay oh this is not getting any better there's still water on this side oh yeah this is probably why the audio isn't going to work i'm just going to assume there's no way that radio turns on look at this cute little bmw fan it's supposed to keep all these guys cool these are water cooled now oh yeah this has got to be for the amps see the fiber optics there we go there's the corrosion okay so i'm gonna go ahead and assume all of these modules will need to be replaced but anyway at this point um let me get a fan going on in here and we'll hook up a battery jumper and scan for codes there's a refuel ignition switched on all right yep this isn't working right now but it did come up for like a minute and i was able to check the oil real quick that was one of the first things i wanted to do and there's no dipstick of course so you can check the oil through this screen surprisingly the oil level is perfect but this won't come back on probably because of all the modules in the trunk that were underwater at some point all right let's get straight to the good stuff i want to scan this car for codes i think there'll be probably over a hundred of them but of course to do that we're going to be using the carly connected car obd diagnostic tool and this is a very powerful and portable tool that just plugs into your diagnostic connector just like that all right so carly is connecting to the alpena all right cool we're going to get right into health diagnostics and here we go right now carly is scanning all of the control units on this car and the ability to scan every control unit on a vehicle is a feature reserve normally for very expensive scan tools but carly's super affordable i'll drop a link down below of course with a coupon code but let's see how many issues are we going to find place your guesses down below i'm going to go with 48. wait a minute no i'm going to say 78. because we're only 10 of the way down 15. oh this is going to be bad i had to start the car up the ignition would turn itself off after about 10 15 seconds but uh yeah all right how many issues did you guess don't lie 243 issues found that means there's 243 codes in all of the computers this is crazy definitely a world record here for legit street cars i mean look at this this is just nuts just a code and literally everything right now i'm focused on the engine because this runs so bad all right critical issues tank venting okay that's no big deal that's a purge emissions type of code here we go cylinder five misfire cylinder four misfire cylinder eight misfire misfiring several cylinders exhaust harmful to startup great this is really cool with carly it kind of puts everything in the layman's terms for you potential consequences motor may show bucking shaking behavior yes it is power reduction so you don't have to be a mechanic to use carly here we go turbocharger coolant pump great that's probably dead misfire six misfiring tank level too low it is very very low on gas and if this car has been sitting for a while it could just have bad gas honestly coolant temperature sensor so this could be a bad thermostat all right here we go battery monitoring deep discharge so believe it or not especially on cars with so many computers a low battery can cause a lot of issues too even running issues let's see what do we have in transmission hand communication of course that could be the water getting in so the control units can't speak to each other because some of them might be shorted out our first step has to be to clear these issues out so we're gonna blow all the codes out and then take it out for a ride hopefully if it'll drive out of here and see what comes back with this many codes it definitely is going to take a couple minutes all right so all of our codes have been cleared see it's going to pop back up immediately charge battery i've been doing that oh wow last service was like three years ago unbelievable all right so check engine light is just back on immediately so we definitely have a hard fault but that's kind of good that'll help us with diagnosis that we don't have to wait for it to come back on this thing's idling really well wow this is nice whoa this is running beautifully now oh yeah you got to be kidding me before this thing was running on like four cylinders it was shaking all over the place it didn't really have any throttle at all and now it's smooth as glass look at that look at this perfectly smooth like it doesn't even need motor mounts that's kind of odd okay oh this is really cool so you can see the alpena parts and amongst many things they do tuning to the car these get bigger turbo chargers and it bumps the horsepower up to 500 and i think these intercoolers are from them as well they say alpena on them very nice now this s63 engine is one of the worst bmw engines ever these would eat a lot of oil and pretty much everything would go bad these were horrible engines as far as reliability but when they worked they made good power and were a lot of fun to drive so speaking of driving let's get this thing up in the air and make sure that a control arm's not going to fall off and that the car is generally safe but before we can do that we have to figure out a way to get air in this one tire that's flat hopefully the tire is okay but there is no valve stem on the outside there isn't one on the inside these are special alpina wheels and they hide the valve stem behind this little cover that has a lock and of course we don't have the keys for it so peter's trying to pick it peter why do you know how to pick locks uh i don't i'm just guessing okay guessing this is what happened all right oh there she is all right so we ended up having to drill it obviously could not pick it and this is how you fill the tires up on an alpena this is so weird is this actually not coming out right away that would be amazing this actually has a lot of meat too these are really expensive tires we just limped it in here it was basically flat but sidewall looks pretty good i can't wait to look under here what are we going to find kind of scared all right with some air in the tire we're about to go for a ride but i want to inspect what's going on underneath the car first i'm expecting a complete disaster but let's start from the back so this does have factory active exhaust pretty cool and then we have a big differential cooler a minor diff leak no big deal and there doesn't look to be any damage to this control arm the axle and the boots look to be in good condition so far so good nothing leaking from that shock and nothing leaking from that probably really expensive shock though all right cool exhaust so far looks to be stock and in good condition we got a good flex disc all right we're getting towards the front this is where i'm expecting a disaster we already found a little leak here probably from the rear main seal i would assume so this is a rear wheel drive alpena you could get these in the all-wheel drive as well but as we can see here no axles going on uh okay this shock is good gigantic brakes that shock is also good control arm bushings look good boots aren't torn wow all right so far this isn't too bad we have an active sway bar these are really cool they can adjust the stiffness of the sway bar as you're turning another decent bushing there we have our power steering rack that isn't leaking at all wow are you kidding me this thing seems to be in pretty good shape no play in the joints nothing okay i was wrong maybe this was maintained i don't know i'm pretty sure there was a class action lawsuit with this s63 engine uh they would just burn a ton of oil even at 20 30 000 miles and look at the engine right there that looks really shiny at 100 000 miles there's a very good chance this engine has been replaced once maybe twice who knows yeah that looks really clean here on the driver's side as well hear that this has fluid filled engine mounts and it looks like they have been leaking at some point or they were leaking at some point oh wait is that a date code right there well they'd be right in line when this car was made are these the original engine mounts that's like impossible i've never replaced engine mounts on one of these before but i'm gonna assume that maybe this is the engine mount housing and you replace the mount that's inside of it because this has clearly been leaking at some point and i just really doubt that a hundred thousand miles this has the original engine mounts on non-performance vehicles these things can go at 50 60 000 miles um but anyway everything is looking pretty good we don't really have any major leaks from the engine the whole front timing cover all the accessories the belts everything looks good it runs good too oh this thing sounds so good i can't wait to get it on the road oh come on don't tell me we're having a window issue oh no no no this is one of those stupid bmw things hang on watch it has one touch and it works except if you hit one touch up and you open the door it stops that's so ridiculous then the one touch doesn't work with the door open it makes no sense luckily i have carly continue window action when door is open let's go ahead and click that on code car okay and carly's doing its thing all right coding was successful so now we hit one touch and it works with the door open this is how the car should have been made it's so annoying that bmw does that but the coating options with carly are unbelievable it's literally limitless you can have a ton of fun playing around with your car and it'll list out each module that has coding that you can change and there's a lot in this car and probably one of my favorite features with carly this is invaluable the used car check so whenever i'm looking at a car in person i always bring carly with me and double check this to make sure the mileage hasn't been tampered with carly has detected no tampering so what it does is it compares the vin the mileage the average speed and a few other things in multiple different control units to make sure that they line up so a lot of times they'll just modify the mileage in the cluster but then you could read the engine computer for example and see the mileage there and if it doesn't match up that means it's been tampered with so this is huge if you're buying really any used car from anywhere so clearly you can do a lot with carly and it's super affordable i've used scanners that cost thousands of dollars that can't do any of the coding that carly can do they can't do the used car check this is a phenomenal value and you can check compatibility for the coding on your car right on their website before you buy so i'm going to drop a custom link down below and a coupon code it's legit streetcars that's going to save you 15 off your very own carly connected tool so a big thanks to carly for continuing to support automotive content creators like myself and for helping me fix stupid bmw issues like no one touch with the door open that's just it makes no sense uh anyway with that let's go burn some rubber and go for a ride smooth this is crazy now it's possible that the gas in this thing is really old and we only have like probably a half gallon of it left so this car was a repo car um but it was also a theft recovery car it's got a very weird history but there's a good chance um with these theft recovery or repo cars that they get hung up at the auction for a very long time so uh you know the service said it was due like three years ago and it's possible that it wasn't really all that past due and it's just been sitting around it a lot and passed around you know a bunch of times sometimes there's litigation with the insurance company and all sorts of of uh stuff that takes time so it there's a good chance we just have some really old fuel in here so anyway let's uh let's go get some fuel it's still running okay yeah sorry for all the wind noise i re-taped up the back uh glass because it's raining right now i didn't want to get any water in the trunk but uh okay hold on now it's it's shaking on me okay it's misfiring again oh come on baby uh-oh i'm all the way down oh don't die on me oh there we go power's back no okay this thing's got some issues luckily we are right at the gas station right now all right i had some heat at the shop just in case we have water in the tank and i'm just gonna do a little bit of this i think this will treat like 20 gallons so i don't know i probably just overdid it with half of it but that's okay and at these prices we're probably not going to fill the entire tank that could total out a car in itself these days but i'm just going to put a few gallons in there just to see what we're working with i want to make sure that this car is in okay shape because there's a possibility we just flip it right back at the auction and this is what we're working with people four gallons for 22 bucks makes sense if you guys saw my road trip video from kansas in my cl65 then you know what bad fuel can do it can make a car just run absolutely horrible so it's misfiring right now oh geez that is so bad dude it's like not even letting me go how far down are you like a quarter throttle border throttle oh my god oh this is horrible so there we go we got a quarter tank um so this might take a few miles to kind of circulate through i'm hoping that's the issue because yeah this thing can run really badly when it wants to and it did have a code for misfiring due to low fuel or something like that so right now it's running good it's shifting good oh it's running really nice just clean usually takes a little bit of time for that fuel to kind of work its way in there though we'll just keep oh here we go i just felt it now it's misfiring oh yeah okay well it's not shaking around like it did when i got it off the trailer but it's definitely missing a little bit right now and for some reason this trunk keeps on telling me it is open it keeps on telling me it's open okay what what in the world okay great this thing is just popping on its own now all right well that could have something to do with the water in the trunk making modules freak out very possible all right hang on i just came back to the shop i'm actually going to remove this it stopped raining and it's just so loud when i'm driving and i don't plan on driving this in the rain really and i'll do a better job when i have more time we still got to clean this car up [Music] i really got this sound good this is very satisfying i'm not going to lie there we go ah so all that water came in through here this all definitely got wet what a shame what a shame they went through the trouble of covering up and then someone pokes a hole in it it could be a lot worse it doesn't smell in there at all it just smells in the trunk okay just kind of jam this guy in there like so might as well just take this off okay cool it's like we have a dual sunroof alpena now oh and i just noticed this little plaque here very cool very cool this was such a nice car when it was new but i have been letting it run for about 15 minutes just idling i didn't want to drive it too much and uh it seems to be running better well as i say that it's still missing it's got a little miss it it could be the fuel it seems to be clearing up i mean before when we oh yeah it's shaking right now yeah i spoke too soon the engine is kind of bouncing back and forth a little bit it's still much better than when it came off the trailer so there is a possibility that the fuel is cycling its way through right now and clearing things up it's possible oh it doesn't sound good yeah that's missing for sure sometimes if i just shut it off and then start it back up kind of fixes itself yep there it is now it's fixed it's running beautifully again we have an abs light on so it has no traction control whatsoever just laying into it a little bit you can tell this thing has got a ton of power 500 horsepower uh you can think of alpena as what amg used to be before mercedes bought them out and bmw just announced that they're buying out alpena but that just happened so up until now uh bmw just had an arrangement with alpena in germany and basically they would send the cars there to get the alpena treatment which included a lot of things and you can get it done on the xdrive version of this one as well and then it turns into a b7 so upgraded turbos upgraded braking system suspension interior work wheels uh body kit stuff just the whole nine yards it was really just like kind of an m version sort of of a more luxurious car so they kept uh with all the luxuries but just made it faster and they command a massive premium i think a newer alpena like this right now is like 150 000 or something like that but a very very nice car uh when they're new and then after a hundred thousand miles and probably like 16 owners they turn into something like we have here so this car was a vandalism car and a repo car so i'll let your imagination kind of figure out what happened there someone might have vandalized their own car for insurance reasons maybe they did an investigation figured out as fraud and they didn't want to pay on the payments uh or who knows who knows [Music] no traction there we go it's just burning the tires up no traction control at all but man it runs good my friend sam sam crack bought this car at a dealer auction in detroit and he bought this many months ago and it was a run and drive so he went to get it shipped and then the the shipper said no it doesn't run or drive so that person wouldn't put it on their truck it turned into a big whole deal and then by the time they were able to figure anything else out the gas prices skyrocketed and it went from being like 500 to get it shipped to him in florida to i think it was like 17 1800 um and it still wasn't a run and drive any longer so it was a big cluster so sam was like alex it's 385 dollars to get it shipped to chicago you know do you want to take a look at the car for me and if it's worth it i'll get it shipped to florida if not we're just going to dump it right back at the auction he was kind of just done with it the whole process was just insane um so that's why i have it at legit street quarters i couldn't turn down a repo vandalism b7 alpena um to have a little bit of fun with and see if i could fix it up on the cheap forum or or something i don't know what we're doing at this point so uh right now we're just cycling some fuel in here if we can fix the rough running for essentially just a few dollars in gas well many dollars in gas and half a bottle of heat then we're way ahead of the game now it has obviously a million other codes it's keyed it would need like a whole new paint job probably i'll see what i can buff out and obviously the water damage in the back so basically i'm going to start to add all this stuff up for him and figure out if it's worth it so he paid fifteen thousand dollars for this clean title 2011 two-wheel drive uh alpena with 102 000 miles on it and if it wasn't damaged anyway and just had 102 000 miles but maintained it could be worth you know 25 28 30 000 in this market um so it could be a good car where you could flip it and make a few bucks on it but we know how expensive these parts are and obviously a paint job is very very expensive and and i can't do that [Music] it moves moves well but anyway this thing's running great guys it's running really nice it might have cleared up with the fuel we're gonna find out but at least we know it has the possibility of running well and there's no actual engine damage it doesn't have a rod knock or anything like that uh the people at the auction it just needed a jump start like they didn't want to jump start it or the shipper i don't know it's it boggles the mind sometimes uh how they will list cars and how easily they give up so depending on who got this at the auction would determine whether or not it was a run and drive or not and it just needed a jump basically their run and drive it could misfire and all that that doesn't matter it's still considered a running drive but to have sold this as a non-runner it would have devalued this car even more honestly it would have been much better for sam had they just done that from the get-go probably would have gotten it for like 10. since we don't have abs or traction control on this might be a good time to test out if this thing will do a burnout or not [Music] all right guys as you can see this thing runs like a top it has all of its power just absolutely perfect so i'm gonna go ahead and say this is a case of bad fuel it could have been sitting at an auction lot for a couple of years it had very little fuel and fuel goes bad and then engines run bad but not anymore also check it out we're down to only 94 issues all right this is one i think that's kicking the light on right away turbocharger coolant pump short to ground it could just have a bad coolant pump wouldn't be the first time i've seen that and then these are still misfire codes that i bet you we can blow out misfiring tank level low misfiring misfiring okay so we can pretty much get rid of all those it's not misfiring anymore all right we're gonna blow that out i want to see what's going on with abs we might have created this one target break torque some coordinated qualifier erroneous something whatever that's maybe a burnout code please we're almost at as many green check marks as yellow orange and red warning signs very very bad all right so i've cleared out all the codes let's see we got going on here on the dashboard uh no more check engine light cool before it would come on immediately and it's still running well no check engine light so who knows maybe the code for the pump won't come back i'll take it out for another drive but we definitely still have all these abs lights on and i'm thinking that this might be an issue with the control unit okay so unfortunately the abs control unit or dsc control unit dynamic stability control i believe is what that stands for is under here and i think you got to take this entire panel out to get to it or to get good access but i just want to do what's called a circuit 30 reset basically we're pulling power from this thing manually what is going on okay all right well we figured out what's wrong here oh man you got to be kidding me this is probably expensive what happened here there's no there's no sign of an accident or anything but the front of the control unit is busted look at that you can see the inside of the control unit and the whole front plastic is cracked off oh wonderful so i'm going to go ahead and say that that thing is damaged and that's why the abs lights and everything are coming on immediately and the codes are really weird so it's not popping up as like a speed sensor or anything it's like internal error codes all right hang on we gotta take a better look at that module i mean it doesn't make a lot of sense there is absolutely no damage in this area it doesn't look like parts are new they're all dirty and this thing is smashed and the mounts are intact too so if it was hit from the front like all of this would have been damaged i mean there's literal spider webs in here so i just don't get it let's just take this piece off here and there you have it i'm gonna go ahead and assume the circuit board here is damaged but what in the world happened to this abs module maybe that was part of the vandalism but it'd have to be vandalized by a bmw mechanic or someone very familiar with these cars that knew that the abs module was right there because that is not a normal spot and i'm curious how much is this abs module maybe the guy was trying to inflict the most damage possible and that's like a 3 000 part all right here it is genuine bmw abs module and 1700 so not too bad and you can find this kind of stuff used as well if you were to buy everything new including all the modules in the trunk you're probably looking around 5000 bucks but you could probably do it for half if you can find these things used so not the end of the world this is something that i find odd it looks like this harness was painted blue like the calipers so the calipers are blue but was this just painted over it looked like this was a factory blue caliper paint job from either bmw or alpena but uh that does not look proper the paint is literally chipping off oh look at this was it green this thing have green calipers before and then they changed them to blue i mean i don't blame them the blue looks a lot better but what is going on here all right so i just took this out for another 10 miles of fun and the check engine light has not returned i scanned it again for codes we don't have any pending codes the engine sounds great it runs great not even the code for the coolant pump for the intercooler system came back and typically when that codes up or the pump fails there's a massive reduction in power which this car definitely does not have so the engine on this car is good the transmission is perfect the whole drivetrain is in excellent condition and i did a little bit more research on all the modules in the back so i'm gonna say all the modules in the trunk and the abs pump we can do for about 3 800 in parts so not horrible considering the type of car that it is uh the back glass 450 dollars installed and then it needs one new tire in the back i don't know why no seriously it's just got a bad tire in the back they actually have a lot of tread the brakes are good the steering and the suspension is good a little bit of leak from the rear main seal but not the end of the world and then obviously the car needs a massive cleaning the interior and everything but what i want to be able to report back to sam is on the condition of the paint so you know clearly it's been keyed but some of them like this one my nail isn't really well it's kind of catching it's not too bad so i'm going to use some compound and i'm going to try and buff out some of these scratches uh just to get a good idea of what we're working with here and then we're gonna mint out these headlights as well and we already put the rear bumper valence back on so overall we've taken a real big pile of garbage theft recovery repo alpena and made it run really good we're gonna make it look kind of good right now and that's not bad considering i'll have like less than 50 bucks into this now this is something you don't do every day got to be careful not to pressure wash the suede deck lid in an alpena because it's totally open right now okay the back end styling with the body kit from alpena looks so good on these cars look the scratch disappeared it's gone all i needed was a wash okay yeah i'm just kidding it's still there all right this thing doesn't clean up half bad i'm gonna buff out the headlights so that one should turn out really really nice and we'll see what i can do that's gonna be a challenge right there and uh you know all the the key marks on there and the back glass that's blown out other than that this this this is a thing and this thing is heavily scratched but let's see what we can do about that all right we're using a coarse wool pad that's seen better days but not a detail shop here this is all i got so i'll put a little bit of this coarse compound on there rub it out i know you detailers out there having a heart attack right now for multiple reasons but don't worry this probably won't work at all anyway here we go [Music] yeah no this ain't happening gotta say the paint around it looks really nice and shiny but i don't think this is gonna work let's just try a different pad that's less beat up i need some more detailing supplies that's for sure all right i kind of figured gave it the old college try yeah i don't know i mean yeah i guess it's a little bit better kind of doesn't make too big of a difference though it's still keyed you can definitely still tell it's key but uh yeah maybe in some spots like over here we made a dent in the scratch i don't know maybe the guys at chicago auto pros or something could work their magic out with this we're gonna touch up paint over here as well and see we can do i mean the alternative is probably like a five to seven thousand dollar paint job kind of curious how good we can make this car look on a massive budget so we'll just get this lower valence in the front repainted but maybe get some professionals over here and buff it out and see what it would look like it would at least make for a pretty good video here like this i think i could fix this all right here we go i'm just gonna hit this whole area right here let's see we can do [Music] nice yes these are totally gone awesome look at that they're gone we got some of the key marks gone this is probably when they were running away because they heard an alarm going off they just kind of at the last moment just and then ran off i don't know that's my breakdown of the crime scene but yeah no those are good um obviously there are some deeper ones guys let me know in the comment section do you want to see a key job revival video we'll just do the best we can do for like under 50 we spent 50 bucks on touch-up paint and some other materials and that's all we have to work with to save ourselves from like a seven thousand dollar paint job i think that'd be a fun video okay fifty dollars plus like two 250 to get this front valence painted because we're not gonna get away with anything on that all right guys i'll leave you a complete video on how i wet sand buff and protect headlights down below i've done this a few times on the channel so i won't go over every single step again here um but yeah i'm gonna do a three-stage wet sand job because these are really bad and then a two-stage buff job hopefully these will look really nice that one i think is gonna look perfect [Music] all right well i got to show you the satisfying part we're basically exfoliating this lens we're moving the top yellow layer and in the beginning it's a lot of fun because you're really taking off a lot so it's going to look worse it's going to look cloudy in your beginning stages but it will get better i promise it will get better all right so after three stages with the wet sand this is what we're left with the frosted look and now we're going to hit it with the coarse compound first of course and after two stages with the course it's looking less frosted so now we're moving on to the fine compound and a kind of dirty fine pad and this is gonna be our final step and i'll probably do this like three times we'll see how good we can get it all right i just rinsed all the buffing compound off and we are looking a million times better in the front so this driver's side headlight was the one in the worst condition and it looked like this before and now it looks like this so it's not perfect there's some imperfections that you can see here it's on the inside this is perfectly smooth now so not much we can do with that and this side wasn't too bad to begin with it looked like this before and like this after so at the very least now these headlights kind of match a little bit more and if you can imagine that bottom valence painted i mean the front end would look mint you know and the scratches taken out and everything and there you have it a vandalized and repossessed yet clean title 2011 b7 alpena and this car came to us just yesterday with a lot of problems it had a flat tire in the back it had yellowed out headlights it was missing the rear bumper lower valence piece it also used to have a trunk full of water that's all dry now and i'd love to show you but the trunk doesn't want to open anymore it also had about 250 trouble codes it's ultra reliable twin turbo v8 engine also barely ran and was shaking and misfiring all over the place and now it's running so smooth that i can balance a aaa battery that i found underneath the seat and now we're down to a measly 18 issues found 18 trouble codes that is not bad considering new bmws get shipped from the factory with at least six or seven codes guaranteed and look at our instrument cluster if it wasn't for the bad abs module we wouldn't have any lights on at all all of these have to do with that faulty and weirdly broken abs module still no check engine light engine temperature is perfect and we need fuel again so that'll do it for today's video let me know in the comment section down below what you guys would do with this b7 alpena and also let me know if you want to see a key job revival type of detailing video on a serious budget so with that if you enjoyed this video 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Channel: LegitStreetCars

Views: 524,390

Keywords: Buying a bank repo car, legitstreetcars alpina b7, fixing a car for $50, buying a broken BMW, FIXING A BROKEN BMW, 2011 B7 ALPINA, BUYING A CHEAP ALPINA B7, BUYING A CAR FROM A DEALER AUCTION, BUYING A CAR THAT DOESN'T START

Id: G7dtA-Nb2eg

Length: 40min 26sec (2426 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 26 2022