E30 Zone

G'day, For the benefit of my carpet dye supplier (and me, of course) can anyone tell me the composition of early BMW carpet ie. acrylic, nylon, wool, polypropylene ????

Bump, anyone?

Your dashboard carpet will likely be made of the same stuff, and have a label on it.

Cloud wrote:Your dashboard carpet will likely be made of the same stuff, and have a label on it.

Dashboard carpet wheres that when its at home?

Cloud wrote:Your dashboard carpet.....

Is it like a lady garden?????

Does it come with window carpets?

Dashboard carpet
After market cover up job that has now been ditched for new dash.
I would take a guess at 75% of E30s in Australia have this lovely styling feature

......erm...cool

bss325i wrote:

Cloud wrote:Your dashboard carpet.....

Poolnoodle's old dashboard carpet (click)

And here it is, once in a life time offer. The bidding is getting pretty hot!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... RK:MESE:IT

C'mon guys, bid bid bid, you know you want to. If sun isn't a problem in your neck of the woods it will also keep the dash warm in winter.

Some clown is going to pay for my new dashboard for me
Like I said, a must have extra for the sunny climes and here is why:

But seriously, can anyone answer my original question???

BMW build quality.

If cracks in the dashboard are your biggest problem, you're doing better than 90% of the Zone.

Where is this all going?? I just want to know if standard cut pile circa 83 carpet is suitable for dyeing (ie. nylon not acrylic)

Try a burn test. As I remember it, nylon melts whereas acrylic burns straight away.

Here you go. I was wrong about the results you'd be looking for though:

http://www.sewnews.com/library/sewnews/ ... ab0303.htm

I know a few people on here have dyed their carpets. Not sure who though. Get a tiny cut out of carpet from another E30 (breakers, someone off the zone) and test it on a little square. See if it will be ok.

Hi poolnoodle,

I have a breaker 323 sitting out the front at the moment, I could do a burn test or post you a sample tomorrow from work if you want to pm me your address.

Matt

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... ie+carpets

Thanks for the offer Matt but I will send a small sample cut from above pedals to the dye suppliers and they will confirm for me.

I wish we had cracked dashboards instead of rust.

Blitz wrote:I wish we had cracked dashboards instead of rust.

Saying that is quite funny... One of mine has minor rust issues growing around the scuttle panel.... the other has a cracked dash.

Chris-W wrote:Here you go. I was wrong about the results you'd be looking for though:

http://www.sewnews.com/library/sewnews/ ... ab0303.htm

how do you find this stuff..