Rear seat protector in an F10 M5

[steakandchips]

Anyone bought or even seen one of these?

http://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/topics/discover-bmw/acc...

I want to use it to ferry the dog around without destroying the leather in the back seats. Anyone got any experience of one?

S&C

[popeyewhite]

Spend 4 times that and buy an old Jeep Cherokee. Not sure how you can contemplate having a dog in the back! It won't work anyway - dog snot and slaver will get on the windows, the dog's hair will travel and the whole car will stink.

[Wills2]

That will do fine if it's short infrequent trips.

[popeyewhite]

Wills2 said:

That will do fine if it's short infrequent trips.

"ferry the dog around" !

[JMBMWM5]

Forget it, buy an estate, M5 the wrong car for Dogs.

[steakandchips]

Bit late for buying an estate. Although I might have bought an estate at the time if they made one. And I'm not about to change an M5 for an RS6. So I shall have to work with what I've got (the hardship!).

[JMBMWM5]

steakandchips said:

Bit late for buying an estate. Although I might have bought an estate at the time if they made one. And I'm not about to change an M5 for an RS6. So I shall have to work with what I've got (the hardship!).

Good luck.

[BOR]

We use a similar, but generic cover in our F11. The BMW cover will be completely OK, (if a bit expensive). Works quite well.

We don't use the side covers because it makes it difficult to get the dogs in and out with them in place.

I would also recomend folding a towel in half under the cover, and flipping it down when the door is open, to prevent the dogs' claws scratching the paint or trim in the door frame.

The cover will have cut outs for access to the seat belt socket, for a dog harness.

[DB77]

Just get rid of the dog. Simples

[steakandchips]

BOR said:

We use a similar, but generic cover in our F11. The BMW cover will be completely OK, (if a bit expensive). Works quite well.

We don't use the side covers because it makes it difficult to get the dogs in and out with them in place.

I would also recomend folding a towel in half under the cover, and flipping it down when the door is open, to prevent the dogs' claws scratching the paint or trim in the door frame.

The cover will have cut outs for access to the seat belt socket, for a dog harness.

Thanks, BOR, appreciate the advice. I'm looking forward to transporting my two Irish wolfhounds in the M5. Only kidding, one dog only.

[CSLchappie]

I've got one, used it for over four years in an e60 m5 to ferry a pair of often wet and muddy border collies here there and everywhere. It kept the interior in tip top condition, even when my old lad did an epic piss of biblical proportions after spending a couple of hours swimming in the sea.

I still have it and now use it in my touring, in fact I used it today to take a set of winter wheels to my local fitter as they fit perfectly across the back seats when stood up.

[steakandchips]

CSLchappie said:

I've got one, used it for over four years in an e60 m5 to ferry a pair of often wet and muddy border collies here there and everywhere. It kept the interior in tip top condition, even when my old lad did an epic piss of biblical proportions after spending a couple of hours swimming in the sea.

I still have it and now use it in my touring, in fact I used it today to take a set of winter wheels to my local fitter as they fit perfectly across the back seats when stood up.

Your father was swimming in the sea for two hours?

[CSLchappie]

No, this furrie sod sat up at the back, I used to call him my old lad because he was the older of the pair -

[HoHoHo]

Although my dog looks like butter wouldn't melt.











He'd eat it in about 14 seconds











And then st it out on the nice Sakhir leather

[popeyewhite]

The reality.

Also a nice carpet won't do much for the smell of wet dog, the smell of animal crap they've been rolling in, and the slobber they get on the back of the front seats.

Could I turn this on its head for a moment? Why get a dog if you always fancied an M5?

[JMBMWM5]

Who would buy an M5 having DOGS!!!!

[SuffolkIan]

I have an early version of the BMW seat cover that I bought for an E46 M3, it's still going strong 14 years later! Kept the kiwi leather clean with my old english sheepdog in the back.

Ian

[steakandchips]

JMBMWM5 said:

Who would buy an M5 having DOGS!!!!

I had an M5 first but that can't stop me having a dog/children/incontinent elderly relatives (delete applicable risks to your leather). I've got another car that can transport the dog but there will be occasions when I can't use it and I will want to use the M5. I'm just trying to work out if it's possible to do that without destroying the back of my still pristine motor.

[popeyewhite]

I had two M3[s] that occasionally were used to transport a collie X. Broke my heart every time a tiny scratch was found!

[CSLchappie]

That's the beauty of the cabin cover, the hair, crap, dirt and smells get on that, not the car. Once you've fitted it a couple of times you can install / take out the cover in a minute or two, I used to leave mine airing the garage and fitted it as required.

We go to Anglesey and North Wales quite a bit and I'd much rather take my car than the other half's... That said when my touring blew a throttle actuator the day before going to Anglesey for a weeks' holiday we fitted the main part of the cover into her Hyundai i30 as it partly fits in place using the headrest pillars.

popeyewhite said:

The reality.

Also a nice carpet won't do much for the smell of wet dog, the smell of animal crap they've been rolling in, and the slobber they get on the back of the front seats.

Could I turn this on its head for a moment? Why get a dog if you always fancied an M5?