New England leather
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 7:56 pm
This pictures shows the difference for New England leather seats (left side) and normal leather seats:
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New England leather
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 8:14 pm
Interesting - which ones got the New England leather option?
New England leather
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 8:28 pm
Some of the lefthand cars.
It was one of the options.
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It was one of the options.
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New England leather
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 8:29 pm
AIUI 'New England' leather was the name for BMWs extended leather option and 'Oregon' was the standard leather - in the US they were called something like 'High Performance' leather and 'Extended High Performance' leather
New England leather
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 10:19 pm
New England was available in UK too,had it on my black 2005 3.0i......added a wee bit extra to the otherwise plain black leather,i liked it alot 
New England leather
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 10:28 pm
New England/extended leather has code LB in the bmw vin decoder.
I have black extended leather so the code for that is LBSW
And indeed if you have the m sport seats you have that little patch in there, I have that too:
Normal seats in LB have a vertical double stitch row along the back and seat.
like this:
I also think new england leather is a bit softer than the oregon leather.
Extended leather/new england has on the pre facelift roadster (apart from the different leather/stitching on the seats) full leather doorcarts, full leather sun visors, full leather A pillar coverage (so 2 sideparts and 1 top part).
Later on in the facelifts the center console was also leather trimmed. That would be nice too I think as those parts are normally made out of really cheap plastic (just as all the plastic behind the seats.... cheap and thin if you ask me)
I have black extended leather so the code for that is LBSW
And indeed if you have the m sport seats you have that little patch in there, I have that too:
Normal seats in LB have a vertical double stitch row along the back and seat.
like this:
I also think new england leather is a bit softer than the oregon leather.
Extended leather/new england has on the pre facelift roadster (apart from the different leather/stitching on the seats) full leather doorcarts, full leather sun visors, full leather A pillar coverage (so 2 sideparts and 1 top part).
Later on in the facelifts the center console was also leather trimmed. That would be nice too I think as those parts are normally made out of really cheap plastic (just as all the plastic behind the seats.... cheap and thin if you ask me)
New England leather
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 12:10 am
They are talking about Alpina specific here guys.
New England leather
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 5:05 pm
@ GuidoK
Thanks for your detailed explanation.
New England was NOT only in Alpinas available - so I think his posting in this area is OK -
otherwise I should have posted it in the normal section.
For the Alpina Roadster S only normal leather (Oregon) or the option New England was possible.
Thanks for your detailed explanation.
New England was NOT only in Alpinas available - so I think his posting in this area is OK -
otherwise I should have posted it in the normal section.
For the Alpina Roadster S only normal leather (Oregon) or the option New England was possible.
New England leather
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 5:11 pm
That is correct it was available on normal Z4's, but as this is the Alpina Specific section thought I should correct themAlpinaRoadsterS wrote:@ GuidoK
Thanks for your detailed explanation.
New England was NOT only in Alpinas available - so I think his posting in this area is OK -
otherwise I should have posted it in the normal section.
For the Alpina Roadster S only normal leather (Oregon) or the option New England was possible.
New England leather
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 5:14 pm
Are you channelling Maniac, Steve?srhutch wrote:...as this is the Alpina Specific section thought I should correct them
