turboawd

well you're not the first to have issues with replica parts.

Robb924

The rear bumper that I received from Umnitza didn?t have the PDC holes drilled at all. Not only did my body shop drill the holes but they also took the little 2? or so PDC stands from the original bumper and plastic soldered them to the rep bumper. It took some extra effort but it turned out great.

bmwgroup

The guys at umnitza are a bunch of idiots working there. I had a month long arguments via phone and email with "Tim" who doesnt have the slightest clue whats going on half the time. And then when you get on the phone with "Matt" he starts arguing with himself on the phone.

I have a e60 LCI, i paid for the full m5 kit and paid for fogs. they sent me a non-lci front bumper with no fog lights capability, no mesh grill and the head light washer bracket was too small to fit the housing on the uminitza front bumper. (At paypal checkout i put a little note on the comments section capaitalized "NO PDC, FOG LIGHTS CAPABLE, LCI")

If these idiots at umnitza only knew what it is like to live in a city where there is no access to a truck to get your bumper from the greyhound location to your body shop.

So ironb i feel your pain and next time think twice before buying anything from umnitza idiots.

Trinity all the way

pjinca

All I can say is: TRINITY FTW!!!!!! Joe and Weezy are the best out there and they will make sure you're happy.

umnitza

We've had 3 or 4 members have this issue. It's not related to the PDC of pre or post LCI, rather it's related to sport vs non-sport PDC.

We acknowledge that the size of the holes is a problem, though it is a small one (pun kind of intended) and if you need further assistance - we'll be happy to discuss the remedy with the shop.

One very very important point here is for everyone to make sure the shop doing the work is test fitting and pre-fitting all parts prior to painting. If there is any mistake made on any shipment, we will be happy to work it out with you but we cannot do so when the bumper is painted.

That being said, see comments below for further validation that it's not as big a deal as the shop may be making it out to be. In the end, the bumper will fit perfectly and look very good and I will be happy to talk to the shop to help you make it so

It's a slight modification. Correct.

Good to hear that a good body shop will do the work without too many issues.

Correct. This is specific to the Mtech rears that were only introduced initially without PDC. We've been working with the factory to get more of them.

ironb

Thanks for all your responses the shop is working through the issues. I will update the this thread once they have arrived at a solution. It would be nice if there was a disclaimer about the pdc fitting issue so I could have forewarn the shop before painting.

ironb

I finally got the bumper installed. It was not an easy task since the holes had to be enlarged after the bumper was painted. Currently one of the middle sensors will give a false reading. I will have to take it back to the shop to fix that. I'm feeling 50/50 on the exhaust tips right now. I'm thinking of switching them to dual ovals on each side. For the diffuser section has anyone done a mesh insert?

Bteljuice

the gap horizontally between the edges and the exhaust looks really weird. Go quads my friends DEFINITELY

bmdub

I had PDC issues last year with the Umnitza M5 rear. The hole in the bumper wasn't as issue in my case. The sensor would fit but all the readings would be flatlined like i'm about to hit something. At first I thought it might be reading the edge of the holes. This was NOT the case at all. These BMW sensors do have a left and right if that makes sense. They must go in, in a particular way. Umnitza's PDC brackets that hold the sensor are turned 45 degrees causing the sensors to instead read left and right, read up and down. the sensors are then reading the ground which causes it to give that "false reading". What I had to do was cut off the two tabs that hold the sensor to the bumper. I then rotated the sensor to the correct position and used so epoxy to keep them there. The flaw in this resolution is if I were the change bumpers I don't think i could remove my PDCs from the Umnitza M5 rear. Major design flaw in Umnitza's M5 PDC rear

Persian_535i

Every Kit I've seen has a mesh insert on the back diffuser I was actually looking at your pic kind of shocked yours didn't strange looking indeed!
And Yeah I'm not feeling the exhaust tips much, too much gappage going on there, other than that the kit looks pretty good.