Interior Restoration

What a transformation!

But personally i preferred the champagne colour to black... But obviously in better condition then yours!




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Here's before and after shots. As a quick recap I have replaced the seats, carpet, mats, centre console, gear/handbrake gaitors, gear knob, door weather membranes, door card handle trims, and most of the plastic trim. It's pretty much a new interior. It's cost nearly a grand and most of the old interior had to be binned, but I should hopefully be able to make some of it back selling the old seats. The photos really don't do it justice, the car looks a decade newer :)

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Top work, I dare say I'd have walked away from buying with the interior as it was, fair play for sticking with it and getting it nicely tidied!
 
A small but important fix today - I finally have radio! The tiny broken part was proving very difficult to find as BMW don't sell it separately, but csm180 was kind enough to give me the one from his old stereo. Much appreciated :)

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My seats could use a bit of a refurb and i was thinking of taking them to an expert to fix some breaks and scars in the leather and paint them cream (original colour is red) instead of changing the whole leather of the seats and pay a fortune. Now that i have seen the cream repainted seats i am not so sure i want to go for repainting if this the result i would get. Do you know if repainting a leather seat will always have the same result as the one in the photos or is it just a bad work example? Cheers!
 
VENDAR said:
My seats could use a bit of a refurb and i was thinking of taking them to an expert to fix some breaks and scars in the leather and paint them cream (original colour is red) instead of changing the whole leather of the seats and pay a fortune. Now that i have seen the cream repainted seats i am not so sure i want to go for repainting if this the result i would get. Do you know if repainting a leather seat will always have the same result as the one in the photos or is it just a bad work example? Cheers!
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They are not meant to be painted, they are meant to be dyed. The person who did this did it wrong basically. It needs to be done with an airbrush and the dye needs to be watered down a bit, neat is too thick.
 
srhutch said:
VENDAR said:
My seats could use a bit of a refurb and i was thinking of taking them to an expert to fix some breaks and scars in the leather and paint them cream (original colour is red) instead of changing the whole leather of the seats and pay a fortune. Now that i have seen the cream repainted seats i am not so sure i want to go for repainting if this the result i would get. Do you know if repainting a leather seat will always have the same result as the one in the photos or is it just a bad work example? Cheers!
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They are not meant to be painted, they are meant to be dyed. The person who did this did it wrong basically. It needs to be done with an airbrush and the dye needs to be watered down a bit, neat is too thick.
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So if i take them to a dedicated expert who knows how to do it i won't have an issue?
 
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