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Old 08-10-2017, 08:26 AM
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Wow. Looks great! I may need to do this to mine sometime soon.
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Here are the A-Pillars. The first one turned out to be a pain in the ass. I cut the hole for the insert in the wrong place and had to redo it. Also these are tough to get back in. For now, I just painted the insert and left it - will go back and do it later. Good news - only 3 reasonable screws on these and no broken parts. It turns out that having more than one e46 is like having multiple children: You spend too much time with one and the others misbehave. A coil went out on my son's which required my attention.

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Now to fix the bubbly arm rest on the passenger side.
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Old 10-03-2017, 09:59 AM
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I decided to go ahead and do the 330i. I ran out of the stuff I did on the M3 so I went down and got some more which to my surprise had a much better color match and texture. Even more interesting, the new fabric matches the Dupli-Color perfectly. Also did some process improvement. Sedans are harder to do (without braking stuff) than coupes.
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Old 10-03-2017, 03:16 PM
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nice...was watching a couple of DIY videos for leather seat repair...gonna try to do that on mine this winter...
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Old 10-03-2017, 08:44 PM
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My seats on my e46s are in reasonable condition but the armrest on my M3 is tragic. I have been watching vids on re-wrapping them.
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Old 10-04-2017, 09:06 AM
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the arm rest is easy...you can buy a new cover on ebay for cheap and swapping is simple...
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