Interior Detail: 1989 BMW 325is

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not7fifteen

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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



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And after



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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!





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