Turning a dream into a reality
Haven’t posted to my build thread in a while, but figured I would this time because of the magnitude of this project.
Want to give a thanks to people like roverT, BMWCurves, ivegotissues666 from e46fanatics, Davbrett from bimmerforums and some YouTube channels for all the DIYs and resources to make this project go as smoothly as possible. I’ll post links to the DIYs in a subsequent post.
So I happened upon a very clean natural brown interior, door cards and all, which even included heated seats and lumbar support (neither of which I previously had). I decided to have a ‘while I’m there’ project where I tackled a lot of issues I was having in the interior. This included:
- peeling fabric on all the pillars and headliner
- sound deaden doors and roof
- fix rattle in driver door
- repair/paint black cube trim of door handles
- grease and diagnose/fix sunroof issue
The rest of the project included:
- swapping out black interior for natural brown, including changing the faux wood trim for the black cube from the black door cards
- install new to me center console panel with the heated seat buttons (bought from cakM3
- route heated seat wires to seats (acquired from part out car)
- vacuum/ clean as needed
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Project started by harvesting the wires needed for heated seats from a donor vehicle. Figures I wanted wires that were color coded and had the correct pin shape, but it was a PITA to get them out.
Here they are attached to the center console panel wiring harness
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And here is my new center console panel
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Next I removed the black seats, and began to gut almost the entire interior
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With everything out, I proceeded to reglue the headliner and pillar fabric. NOT a fun job. 10/10 would not recommend, but mine was really bad. Results were not ideal, but it will do for now.
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I’ll continue the saga in the next post…
Turning a dream into a reality
Noticed some interesting things in this project, like remnants of life at the bmw factory in Munich
Found this little guy hiding in the door sill under the carpet. Probably crawled in during production and got stuck?
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And perhaps some old leaves from a German tree that got stuck above the headliner???
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and here are those links I referred to for this project. Thanks again to everyone and happy wrenching!
http://www.zhpmafia.com/forums/showt...ning-Project**
http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...nterior-Repair
http://www.zhpmafia.com/forums/showt...eadening-Guide
https://www.e46fanatics.com/threads/...f-pics.341242/