Leather trimming?

[TW]Fox · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:17

Hi guys,

I'm looking at getting the centre console and potentially the lower dash area of the car trimmed in leather.

Before I embarrass myself by calling into some places only to be shocked at the sort of prices involved how much would you consider reasonable for this sort of work?

TY

Fr0dders · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:20

No idea

bet Classic Car Services in Leicester do though

http://www.classiccarservices.co.uk/private.html

They're a leather interior specialst and the work comes highly regarded. Expensive however. But they're exacting standards would be right up your street.

[TW]Fox · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:22

Basically there was an obscenely rare factory option called 'Extended Leather'. This trimmed the lower half of the dashboard beneath the aluminium trim and the sides of the centre console in padded leather.

I want this and have given up trawling Ebay for 2 years for the centre console out of an M5 (Which had the leather console but not the extended leather as standard).

Just need some ballpark figures, if its going to be £300+ then I can't be bothered.

Fr0dders · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:25

if nobody else can give you an answer, give them a ring in the morning and they'll be able to give you a figure

they can leather trim anything, furniture etc.. so a piece of dashboard wouldnt be a problem.

but based on the prices the people on the VXR forums paid to transform half leather to full leather (upwards of 3 grand) i can easily see a piece of dashboard being over £300.

CaPtBlaCk · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:25

I have not used them but they seem to do what you would want:
http://www.bespokeleathering.com/index.html

4nonymous · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:32

For a good job you will definetly be looking to go moar than £300.

Jez · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:33

Yeah, no way this will be anything like £300

Fett · 4 Feb 2010 at 23:44

I would have thought there would be a noticeable difference in price if you remove the lower dash and console yourself. Flock it instead, Juha.

gbradders123 · 5 Feb 2010 at 00:36

post back if you do get a price!

TheVoice · 5 Feb 2010 at 00:40

I hear there's a place in Poland that can do it in half a day.

Sukh · 5 Feb 2010 at 00:44

TheVoice said:
I hear there's a place in Poland that can do it in half a day.

Genuine lol.

monkey_boy · 5 Feb 2010 at 10:03

What's the attraction to this for you fox? If what you're talking about is the colour matching dash to the rest of the interior, then it seems like a bit of a waste to replace your black soft touch dash with black padded leather.

Matt82 · 5 Feb 2010 at 10:05

got any pics of the extended leather dash option?

4nonymous · 5 Feb 2010 at 10:13

Just putting this in here purely for the turn on.

Matt82 · 5 Feb 2010 at 10:14

the pic is blocked here. presumably its a leather clad man?

Cyanide · 5 Feb 2010 at 10:17

4nonymous said:

Someone get overly fond of the Mini?

monkey_boy · 5 Feb 2010 at 11:16

Are the dash lowers the same as the E53? That might be an easier way. Mine has the leather lowers and my car is by no means top spec.

[TW]Fox · 5 Feb 2010 at 11:17

Had a quote of 230 for the centre console. Is your X5 leather? Wow thats pretty rare, got any pics?

Fr0dders · 5 Feb 2010 at 11:35

Thats pretty good, was it from the company i suggested or somebody else ?

monkey_boy · 5 Feb 2010 at 11:51

Im at the hospital at the min so can't yet. The missus is in labour. Will take some pics later though.