My New Touring

Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:39 pm

Just gave my new 325i Touring a good wash and polish. Really pleased with it as i've not had an e30 for about a year now so i've forgot how fun they are.

Needs a few things doing but all in good time. Sorry for the bad pictures, I only had my camera phone with me!!

More pics to come soon.

Tom

Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:13 am

Is that rust on rear tailgate? It's so annoying and I had to replace whole tailgate on mine.

Looks good, so take more pictures.

Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:21 am

Can't beat a black touring

Just needs leather Gear stick & hand break gaters hey Toby ( will be ordering a set off you soon Toby)

Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:38 pm

Ok, got to work on the beast today and decided to tackle the headlining!!

As you can see from the pics, who ever had it before got soooooooo annoyed with the headlining they just chopped it off!

I sourced a second hand lining (which was filthy and had mould on it) so i carefully peeled it off from the board, put it in a bucket of bleach and hot water, scrubbed the hell out of it, then put it out to dry (in between it raining).

While that was drying outside, I got to grips with the inside of the touring. Thanks to Brianmoooore for the write up of how to get this down

Now the material was dry it fits perfect over the original board.

Just got to glue and tack it down now and put back in the car.

Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:46 pm

good effort with the headlining, i would be scared to tackle that myself lol, is the leather on sport seats?

Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:55 pm

It wasn't to bad actually. It needed to come off the board as that was manky also!!

Yeah comfy leather with heated fronts...

Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:06 pm

the headlining in my touring is pretty filthy but i dont want to run the risk of it sagging if i clean it!

Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:23 pm

I've got some spray adhesive which i've tested and seems to work. I'm going to spray it on, tack the sides, then with a paint roller go over the whole thing. Think this should work.

I thought it would all end in tears, but i'm quite surprised!!

Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:21 pm

Is this the touring off ebay with the cream sports leathers?

My headliner is sagging in the boot area aswell, but i never have time to do anything about it

Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:44 pm

tomtomiS wrote:the headlining in my touring is pretty filthy but i dont want to run the risk of it sagging if i clean it!

i used vanish foam cleaner to great effect on mine, it was manky but came out pretty good. the foam action meant i didnt need to scrub too hard so i didnt damage it.

sounds like an advert lol

Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:57 pm

Mine is sagging a bit at the back and a little bit grubby, I think I am going to take mine off and dye it black, then put it back up properly.

Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:12 am

aceraf - it may have been but I got it from spadge.

gizze - is was temted to dye mine but didn't have the balls to!

Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:57 am

looks like a great car, shame about the headlining tho

Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:03 am

Cheers buddy, gonna try and finish it later on so i'l try and take some more pics.

Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:18 pm

Tom i told you it would look better with a wash

Think i sold it to cheap now

Nice job on the headlining

Keep up the good work

Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:25 pm

Joules cheers buddy. I'm spending to much time on it!!! My misses isn't happy! I've now fitted the new clean headlining and i'm really impressed with it.

Pics to follow soon.

Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:07 pm

tom325sport wrote:Joules cheers buddy. I'm spending to much time on it!!! My misses isn't happy! I've now fitted the new clean headlining and i'm really impressed with it. Pics to follow soon.

Give her a cloth and some leather cleaner and get her involved then as she's probably feeling left out

Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:31 pm

Gave the beast a good seeing to today!! Out with the seats, good hoover inside, leather cleaner then on the seats, gave it a wash, then did the bumpers etc, then it rained!!

Gonna get the tappets and belts done next month and a service next week.

More pics to come soon.

Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:04 pm

Very good work. It's hard to beat doing the thing right. I was planning on dying the headlining in my touring. I'm not as scared of the idea at all now.

Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:28 pm

Looking good fella,what are those switches next to the hand brake lever?

Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:34 pm

shane320ii wrote:Looking good fella,what are those switches next to the hand brake lever?

They are for the heated front seats

Lets see some pics of this headlining re-fitted then Tom and did you find any of my change under those seats

Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:15 pm

Thanks Spadge, I'l take some photos tomorrow. I found the great sum of approximately 23p and a bag of sweets!!
I was gutted not to find more as my mate (chris who came with me to Milton Keynes) found about Ã‚£10 in his!! Not much but got us a few beers.