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  1. #1
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    Question Premium Package leather upholstery: what is actually leather?

    Yeah, so: Premium Package leather upholstery on our cars: what is actually leather? (This option deletes alacantra pretty much everywhere AFAIK)

    Center console, shift and brake boots?

    Sides and backs of front seats?

    Door armrests?

    Rear seats?

    A lot of this looks like vinyl to me and I don't want to hit it with leather treatment if it's not appropriate.
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    Seats, shift boot and knob, handbrake boot, door card centers, and steering wheel if not alcantara. Nothing else is leather...

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    Sides and backs of seats are not leather. Bolsters are as well as center armrest.
    2006 CiC 6MT
    ZHP, Cold Weather, Xenon
    Sapphire Black / Black Leather / Black Cube

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    Quote Originally Posted by wsmeyer View Post
    Sides and backs of seats are not leather. Bolsters are as well as center armrest.
    Forgot about armrest, because I don't have one. Lol


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    In coupes the side armrest pads are leather.

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    I can only speak for verts but on those side armrests are not leather unless you opted for the Montana leather option.
    2006 CiC 6MT
    ZHP, Cold Weather, Xenon
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    Quote Originally Posted by wsmeyer View Post
    I can only speak for verts but on those side armrests are not leather unless you opted for the Montana leather option.
    There is only one leather option, Montana. Those side armrests aren't Montana leather though... they don't have that grain to them, but they are still leather.
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    my car has the premium package and the wheel, shifter and handbrake boots are all alcantara. those in leather did not come on the ZHP/ZAM that i'm aware of.

    the canadian M Sport cars got leather wheel, shifter and handbrake boots, though (and easy giveaway when trying to determine if a canadian car is a ZHP/ZAM or M Sport - also the M Sport got the standard 330 exhaust).
    peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by wsmeyer View Post
    I can only speak for verts but on those side armrests are not leather unless you opted for the Montana leather option.
    Quote Originally Posted by az3579 View Post
    There is only one leather option, Montana. Those side armrests aren't Montana leather though... they don't have that grain to them, but they are still leather.
    Interesting, I haven't paid close attention to the grain but they certainly look leather to me. Maybe it's different between coupes and convertibles?

    Quote Originally Posted by slater View Post
    my car has the premium package and the wheel, shifter and handbrake boots are all alcantara. those in leather did not come on the ZHP/ZAM that i'm aware of.

    the canadian M Sport cars got leather wheel, shifter and handbrake boots, though (and easy giveaway when trying to determine if a canadian car is a ZHP/ZAM or M Sport - also the M Sport got the standard 330 exhaust).
    I thought late production 330i and 330Cis ZHPs were equipped with leather steering wheels, shifter boots, and parking brake boots. By late I mean roughly the last two months of sedan production and same start date for coupes through MY 2006. My father's '06 came with those all in leather, but my 02/05 came with those parts in alcantara.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BMWCurves View Post
    I thought late production 330i and 330Cis ZHPs were equipped with leather steering wheels, shifter boots, and parking brake boots. By late I mean roughly the last two months of sedan production and same start date for coupes through MY 2006. My father's '06 came with those all in leather, but my 02/05 came with those parts in alcantara.
    weird, i knew about the leather wheels, but not the matching boots. huh!
    peter

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