E30 Carpet

[poolnoodle]

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 ????

[poolnoodle]

Bump, anyone?

[Cloud]

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

[Chase007]

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?

[bss325i]

Your dashboard carpet.....

[maggspower]

Is it like a lady garden?????

[GrindCulture]

Does it come with window carpets?

[poolnoodle]

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

[GrindCulture]

......erm...cool

[Cloud]

Your dashboard carpet.....

Poolnoodle's old dashboard carpet (click)

[poolnoodle]

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???

[Cloud]

BMW build quality.

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

[poolnoodle]

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)

[Chris-W]

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

[Chris-W]

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

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

[Nay]

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.

[matt320]

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

[Steve]

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

[poolnoodle]

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.

[Blitz]

I wish we had cracked dashboards instead of rust.

[Nay]

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.

[corkie]

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..