Show Us Your Motors!

almoststew1990 said:
I'm also thinking about getting new (same colour) trim for the doors as mine is very scratched. Then maybe gear knob and steering wheel trimmed if I really find myself swimming in spare cash!
Click to expand...

If you have the carbon cube trim, don't buy new ones, just re-spray your existing items. The carbon cubes are in the material, so a light dusting of black spray paint fills in all the scratches and has them looking like new very quickly.

Did the same on my E46 and the result was excellent:

8I3rizH.jpg.png


Another guide can be found here. I'd advise re-spraying all of the trim in the car at the same time however to make sure you get a proper colour match, seems silly not to whilst you're spraying everything else.
 
[TW]Fox;28092231 said:
The mats in my 530i have yet to wear through in 207,000 miles. So it looks like a fairly useless guarantee, any quality mat will last a long time.
Click to expand...

I think your 530i ones are thicker pile than the standard E46 ones from BMW no? The new ones I got in the new year from BMW were £70 and are very good quality and strong yet under the driver's heel area you can feel that the pile has indented in just 5000 miles. It's not visibly distressed and still looks new after a vacuum, but the physical wear is there.

If the wool twist posted above is twice the thickness of the prestige (which in turn is thicker pile than the BMW standard E46 mats) then they will look and feel that much more luxurious surely.
 
[TW]Fox;28092231 said:
The mats in my 530i have yet to wear through in 207,000 miles. So it looks like a fairly useless guarantee, any quality mat will last a long time.
Click to expand...

Didn't you buy it on 140k? How do you know previous owners didn't replace them?
 
Voxination said:
If you have the carbon cube trim, don't buy new ones, just re-spray your existing items. The carbon cubes are in the material, so a light dusting of black spray paint fills in all the scratches and has them looking like new very quickly.

Did the same on my E46 and the result was excellent:
Click to expand...

Oh wow they really did come up well I'm defo going to be trying that out!
 
loltim said:
Didn't you buy it on 140k? How do you know previous owners didn't replace them?
Click to expand...

I bought the car at 4 years old from its original owner. He specified the car from new and explained to me exactly what had been replaced since he purchased it, along with invoices for literally everything, right down to every single tyre.

The mats fitted to the car are the same as those fitted to it when he purchased it.
 
I imagine people will haggle the prices down to close to what you paid, no?

If not, how did you get it "so cheap"? :p
 
I've already paid £12k for it from new, £11.6k was the remaining left to own the car :)
I was forced into buying it because my new car isn't ready until September.
 
Wait, so in total, if you sell it for 13K, you paid £20,600 to own a 118D for 3 years? Please tell me I'm reading this wrong? :confused:

Holy balls.
 
Acme said:
Wait, so in total, if you sell it for 13K, you paid £20,600 to own a 118D for 3 years? Please tell me I'm reading this wrong? :confused:

Holy balls.
Click to expand...

You are wrong - it's a 118i.
When I sell it for £13k, I've paid £10k to own it for 3 years 4 months.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom