Restoring a V12 BMW 850i That Spent 10 Years in a Garden - PT11

In this episode of project Marseille, 1991 850i, we are restoring BMWs first multi-link rear axle. The E31 rear suspension has 11 rubber bushings and 14 ball joints. Since this car was abandoned for 10 years in a garden in the south of France, everything is in a poor state. Nonetheless, the mission is to completely overhaul this old, rusty suspension.

[hanl]

Without Sreten and contributors like him, Youtube would be just another social media junk platform. Thanks, real contributors.

[Tychohuybers]

This man is repairing like 8 cars simultaneously, researching and finding parts and/or solutions for very specific issues, recording sound and video, doing voice overs and editing, responding to emails, ... All on his own.
I refuse to believe Sreten sleeps. This man is just built different.

[gio.rodriguez]

The red press conference was stressing me out! 🤣

[jeffwatkins]

Sreten is the only dude I know that buys front control arm assembly’s only for the boots. Simply amazing.

[imranqureshi]

Sreten is the level 100 Master Technician.

I own a 2000 750iL here in the UK and referred to all of the Project Dubai episodes to help me when I worked on my car. It gets driven most weekends. In fact, I'll be soon be referring to one of the episodes to fix the sagging headlining.

Thank you Professor Sreten for the support you provide.

[sageyowns]

editing the colors over the bolts you’re removing is a next level upgrade i didn’t even know we needed

[martintazky]

I love the BMW chime to cover for words which are not in line with youtube 😂😂. Fantastic idea

[fortza]

You are the only one who restores cars on YT that is worth watching, the way you, with respect for the model make them as good as new - it´s so cool to watch.

[jimtaylor]

What I love about YouTube, is that it's enabled a relationship where us viewers can get the niche content we crave (as lets be honest, not everyone wants to watch someone spend an hour rebuilding a rear subframe) but with an adequate amount of viewership and patreon donations it gives Sreten the money to not only take on projects that would otherwise be economically unviable but not worth the time to most people either. But you're saving fantastic examples of some of BMW's very best cars (and some unreliable Italian stuff.. ahem) and boy are we grateful for it. I hope it remains interesting and enjoyable for you to keep doing this Sreten as you have to know how very appreciative we are!

[stilley]

I honestly don't know how watching 48 minutes of pressing bushes and ball joints could be so interesting, but it really is. Anything Sreten does is interesting. Project Marseille is probably my all time favourite project. I can't wait to hear that V12 purr.

I love subframe restoration videos, very satisfying.

[drakelangham]

If every repair shop had at least one guy as passionate and conscientious as Sreten, the world would be a better place.

[Ellendemetinternet]

For that age everything comes perfectly loose, looks a bless to work on

[Nockwolves]

the problem with watching your videos is that you than start evaluating all other cartubers against your maniacle level of detail! It's just so unbeliveble the level of detail you go to... That car will drive as 100% new. Insane.

[JayaePC]

I particularly like the editing on this one, the little red highlights were very useful. Always enjoy continuations on these big projects!

[basedfaisal]

Another instant classic, thanks for all your hard work Sreten!

[diedus]

I'm so happy to have something i love to watch, because i just got out of the hospital. I had a knee replacement that should have taken 45 minutes, take over 3 hour's, because there were tumors inside, and infection, because the surgeon only took xrays, when i told him that i had an MRI around covid that showed them. He said it was a mess inside, so i had to stay inpatient, instead of going home. I am happy to be home with one of your video's to watch on the older BMW, the other oldie that has a little rust is what I've been waiting on as well, but you've made this lady in the mitten state over here in the US, just peachy. G-d bless.

[maxjan]

I truly believe the amount of knowledge you share with every single video paired with the entertainment factor is such a huge win for the BMW community. Said that, one can only assume how much work and effort goes into your productions in the background. Thanks Sreten, I love your videos!

[eugenealymov]

This was a very enjoyable video. The filming quality is just superb. Those close up shots are amazing. Imagine driving a car like this in the 80s or the 90s. This was better than 99.9% of cars on the road then. It still is better than most modern cars on the road. Shame that BMW took it in a completely different direction in the past 10 years. Oh well. Looking forward to part 12

[anthonyc]

It's funny when you say you're going to send something to a specialist. From what I can see, if I needed a BMW specialist, I'd be sending ALL of my work to you! Always a joy to watch.