Tan is not tan?

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  • SpyHunter
    Grease Monkey
    • Aug 2008
    • 318
    #1

    Tan is not tan?

    The '91 318is I just picked up has a tan cloth interior. I have some "extra" tan leather sport seats out of an '87 325is that I just threw in the car. Colors do not match at ALL. Cloth tan has more red in it, and the leather tan comes off having a greenish hue. Not a big deal, as I hope to go grey and black soon enough, but thought it was interesting.

    Everybody else knows about this though, right?
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    • topdown323
      Wrencher
      • Dec 2007
      • 248
      #2
      there is tan, and there is sand. i learned this lesson with my grey market e30. and finding anything remotely e30 in nebraska is a futile act lol


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        • SpyHunter
          Grease Monkey
          • Aug 2008
          • 318
          #3
          Ah. I haven't had too hard of a time. Kicking myself for not picking up the full set of houndstooth door cards I found at the yard. ;)

          But, yeah, it isn't great. LOL.

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            • topdown323
              Wrencher
              • Dec 2007
              • 248
              #4
              wait houndstooth where? and you did not pick them up?

              course, i just swapped out the cardinal for the black, so yeah:)
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                • speedminded
                  Wrencher
                  • Oct 2008
                  • 291
                  #5
                  Originally posted by SpyHunter
                  The '91 318is I just picked up has a tan cloth interior. I have some "extra" tan leather sport seats out of an '87 325is that I just threw in the car. Colors do not match at ALL. Cloth tan has more red in it, and the leather tan comes off having a greenish hue. Not a big deal, as I hope to go grey and black soon enough, but thought it was interesting.

                  Everybody else knows about this though, right?
                  Hypothetical story, "Red is not red. I picked up a red fender and the colors do not match at ALL. It had more of an orange hue. I thought that was interesting."

                  The point? Just like there's more than one red there's obviously more than one shade of "tan". There's even a sticky at the top of this sub-forum that shows pictures of each interior with examples and color codes...

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                    • SpyHunter
                      Grease Monkey
                      • Aug 2008
                      • 318
                      #6
                      You're right. Sorry. There is a beige and a natural. I didn't notice this mentioned before, and didn't bother to look through the interior sticky that diligently. My bad. All I ever heard of was TAN. Tan this, and tan that. I have never seen a FS add for a natural sport seat. Or a beige sport seat. Just tan. So excuse me for not doing a thorough and exhausting search. I will not dare post next time, until I have done so. ;)

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                        • speedminded
                          Wrencher
                          • Oct 2008
                          • 291
                          #7
                          Originally posted by SpyHunter
                          You're right. Sorry. There is a beige and a natural. I didn't notice this mentioned before, and didn't bother to look through the interior sticky that diligently. My bad. All I ever heard of was TAN. Tan this, and tan that. I have never seen a FS add for a natural sport seat. Or a beige sport seat. Just tan. So excuse me for not doing a thorough and exhausting search. I will not dare post next time, until I have done so. ;)
                          lol it's all good man, logically BMW is going to have more options than most other manufacturers.

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                            • rhett325i
                              E30 Addict
                              • Jan 2005
                              • 575
                              #8
                              duplicolor vinyl and fabric dye has a tan color that matches natur pretty well

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