der Mumienwagen; E91 330i Touring
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The mountain of parts for this is ever growing.
The walnut interior trim finally arrived today. I’m in the process of giving it a proper clean because it’s a bit manky. I’m polishing a few wee bits of wear out. It looks loads better against the lemon leather than the polished aluminium trim.
Once it’s all cleaned and polished I’ll get it fitted and whilst the centre console is out, I’ll replace the white shifter bush and fit the Z3 shifter.
I need to do an oil change at some point soon and possibly the plugs too. The diff oil and gearbox will get done too.
The E46 M3 gearbox mounts are here too ready for fitting when I remove the CDV.
New front discs have arrived and a pair of ATE ceramic pads and wear sensor are on the way from Germany.
The walnut interior trim finally arrived today. I’m in the process of giving it a proper clean because it’s a bit manky. I’m polishing a few wee bits of wear out. It looks loads better against the lemon leather than the polished aluminium trim.
Once it’s all cleaned and polished I’ll get it fitted and whilst the centre console is out, I’ll replace the white shifter bush and fit the Z3 shifter.
I need to do an oil change at some point soon and possibly the plugs too. The diff oil and gearbox will get done too.
The E46 M3 gearbox mounts are here too ready for fitting when I remove the CDV.
New front discs have arrived and a pair of ATE ceramic pads and wear sensor are on the way from Germany.
wol said:
I've got an E61 with the aluminium trim. Can't stand it either but there's a lot of it so don't fancy spending the money changing it yet either!
I umm'd and ahh'd about removing the CDV too. I thought it was there to help protect (torque limit?) the gearbox slightly?
The trim isn’t too expensive if buying used. The aluminium works with certain leather in my opinion (I preferred it to the dark wood with black leather on my 335i and it works against the red interior that I retrofitted). I umm'd and ahh'd about removing the CDV too. I thought it was there to help protect (torque limit?) the gearbox slightly?
I’ve removed the CDV on the last new manuals and it’s been fine. It’s there to protect the clutch but the clutch feel is much better without it.
I think it will look great with the wood and light leather. I have light leather in my E91 (it’s an LCI so Oyster rather than Lemon) and Piano Black trim which I think works well together, but I know many people avoid Piano Black due to it being so sensitive to fingerprints. Either way, I think the M-Sport E9x looks much better with light coloured leather, and light coloured leather looks better without silver trim 
DC.11 said:
The walnut will be an improvement over silver for sure. I had my LE trims painted in Piano Black which I thought worked well with the lemon.
Was Piano Black not an option on the 1-series, or was it cheaper to have it wrapped than do a retrofit of OE parts?It’s a pretty rare option on the E9x due to it being a BMW Individual option (therefore pretty pricy), combined with the fact that many E9x are poverty spec and hence have the default no-cost silver trim.
pmorg4 said:
I think it will look great with the wood and light leather. I have light leather in my E91 (it’s an LCI so Oyster rather than Lemon) and Piano Black trim which I think works well together, but I know many people avoid Piano Black due to it being so sensitive to fingerprints. Either way, I think the M-Sport E9x looks much better with light coloured leather, and light coloured leather looks better without silver trim
Thanks. I fitted it last night (will get some pics today when I clean the car) and am really pleased with it. Piano black looks lovely when clean but the finger prints grate and the OE trim spec’d in the MINI scratches if you looked at it wrong. nipsips said:
I’ve got piano black around the multifunction switches on the steering wheel, and around the electronic handbrake in my work car and it literally drives me insane to the point I keep a microfibre in the door to keep it clean 
I’m sure the wood will look fantastic!
I used to be quite precious about my cars but being that I own an E91 for the primary purpose of hauling around a three year old and a two year old I’ve had to give up any pretence of keeping a clean car. Fingerprints on the piano black trim are the least of my worries I’m sure the wood will look fantastic!
pmorg4 said:
nipsips said:
I’ve got piano black around the multifunction switches on the steering wheel, and around the electronic handbrake in my work car and it literally drives me insane to the point I keep a microfibre in the door to keep it clean
I’m sure the wood will look fantastic!
I used to be quite precious about my cars but being that I own an E91 for the primary purpose of hauling around a three year old and a two year old I’ve had to give up any pretence of keeping a clean car. Fingerprints on the piano black trim are the least of my worries I’m sure the wood will look fantastic!
I’m still sad enough to try and fight the battle of family life and cars! My little boy is very critical of other people’s cars and is happy to tell them that their cars are disgusting. Court_S said:
pmorg4 said:
nipsips said:
I’ve got piano black around the multifunction switches on the steering wheel, and around the electronic handbrake in my work car and it literally drives me insane to the point I keep a microfibre in the door to keep it clean
I’m sure the wood will look fantastic!
I used to be quite precious about my cars but being that I own an E91 for the primary purpose of hauling around a three year old and a two year old I’ve had to give up any pretence of keeping a clean car. Fingerprints on the piano black trim are the least of my worries I’m sure the wood will look fantastic!
I’m still sad enough to try and fight the battle of family life and cars! My little boy is very critical of other people’s cars and is happy to tell them that their cars are disgusting. 
Gave the car a quick wash this morning before the sun decided to make an appearance to remove Forestry England’s finest white dust after using the car for a ride on Friday.
Obligatory snowfoam shots
After it was washed and dried, I started the process of re-polishing the car with a heavy cutting compound. I’m going to do it in stages so started with the boot lid. I used Koch Chemie H9 with a heavy cutting pad followed by Koch Chemie M3 and polishing pad. Some of the scratches are really bloody deep, but it’s better than it was.
I’ve also finally fitted the walnut trim, which I think looks much better with the lemon leather.
The air conditioner chap is due shortly and I’m wife and child free for the next 18hours or so, so I think I’ll get the car on stands, do the shifter bush / selector and change engine oil, gearbox oil and diff oil.
Obligatory snowfoam shots
After it was washed and dried, I started the process of re-polishing the car with a heavy cutting compound. I’m going to do it in stages so started with the boot lid. I used Koch Chemie H9 with a heavy cutting pad followed by Koch Chemie M3 and polishing pad. Some of the scratches are really bloody deep, but it’s better than it was.
I’ve also finally fitted the walnut trim, which I think looks much better with the lemon leather.
The air conditioner chap is due shortly and I’m wife and child free for the next 18hours or so, so I think I’ll get the car on stands, do the shifter bush / selector and change engine oil, gearbox oil and diff oil.
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