Interior Detail: 1989 BMW 325is

[not7fifteen]

Picked this car up for myself and spent about 4 hours on the carpet/interior. The guy inherited it from his father who passed away and I don`t think it had been cleaned in YEARS. The extracter had the nastiest brown water I`ve seen yet in the holding tank. It had solid clumps in it when I dumped and rinsed the resevoir.



Anyway, on with the pics.



Used a Bissell Green Machine portable extractor, and some assorted detail brushes, lexol on the seats (which I need to do a few more times, they are DRY), and some no name cleaner on the dash/console/etc...



Before



http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/SlowStang/bmw002.jpg



http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/SlowStang/bmw003.jpg





And after



http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/SlowStang/bmw009.jpg





Still needs gone over again, but its a world from what it was and doesn`t smell nearly as bad either. Can`t wait till next weekend when my PC7424 gets here so I can start on the outside!





http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/SlowStang/bmw005.jpg



Looks ok from 15 feet or so but the hoods been repainted and needs wetsanded and its got some pretty intense swirls/holograms/scratches/etc. 19yo car after all...



Keep posted for a followup on the exterior!

[somebody]

Car looks great I just bought another E30 from the original owner and the interior needs some works so I will be doing the same thing this week. Good Work!



-Brandon

[not7fifteen]

Woah wierd.... see the 95 Arctic white Formula in the background?? Thats my other car... We have some freakishly scary taste in cars!

[somebody]

wow thats cool, I miss my 95 formula it was such a fun car.

[imported_sal329]

That is a great job on the interior. The E30 is a great DD, fun car to drive

[Flat]

Looks great, especially the carpet--what did you use to clean it? I`m about to do an interior detail on my `91 318is that has grey carpet that`s heavily soiled, the PO neglected it and had a thing for spilling coffee. Can I clean this stuff up with auto-parts store carpet cleaner or do I need to do steam cleaning or something similar?



I`m currently restoring/rebuilding a set of black leather sport seats. Mine have similar cracking but don`t appear as dry as yours. I`ve done 3 apps of Lexol clean/condition and it`s brought it out some but not great, it won`t take the `white` out of those deep cracks in the black leather. I haven`t looked into leather dye yet, I may do that.

[vt92]

Thanks for sharing, I like seeing interior details.

[David Fermani]

The leather looks totally different. And the carpet is like new. Great work.