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Hi guys, long time reader first time poster!

I have a beautiful 2008 E70 M-Sport 3.0SD (twin turbo) in black with beige leather/lower dash.

It was spec'd with the aluminium dash/door trims, to my eye it does not work well with the interior colour.

I did have a fellow come and wrap them gloss black but this was done on the car and subsequently isnt as 'perfect' as I'd like it.

I'm struggling to find someone willing to remove the trim and paint them!  Any idea in the herts area?

Cheers, Paul

Here is a pic of the trim before I had it wrapped.

There is a long thread in the how to section, may be useful
http://xdrivers.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,105.0.html

Cheers, I'm not 100% in my personal ability to strip my car to its bare bones!

I keep looking at the dent and scratches on our 35d dash trims and I think it's about time I did something with them, I did the carbon thing on my Mrs 123d a few years back and the results were great just don't think it will suit the X5.

I'll have a go at the glovebox later

Put it back to standard - looks great 

Removing the door panels:

http://vimeo.com/27405938

more:

http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/x_serie ... rim_panel/

Console trims:

http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/x_serie ... left_or_r/

http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/x_serie ... _or_right/

Lower glove box then lower lid:

http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/x_serie ... _glovebox/

http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/x_serie ... vebox_lid/

Removing the actual door trim:

http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/x_serie ... ht_door_t/





I'm changing the Mrs Trims over the next few weeks so I'll do a "how to"

You are a legend!  Want to do mine? Lol

Doubtful ha ha

I'm only doing this myself as I know my attention to detail is somewhat higher than the average bmw tech...

Thanks Doc, we just tackled the job and your information was invaluable.

The trim will go off to paint this week, pics to follow.  The car is currently in pieces!!

All done, took a good few hours to refit, happy with the overall result.

I couldnt see anything wrong with the original, but now looking at this it looks great.

Thanks, there wasn't anything wrong as such with the original, just me being a fussy old man lol.  I likes what I likes!  Yeah I'm pleased with the finished result, can really see the metallic when the sun catches the trim. 

Looks really good! Great job!

Many thanks