OEM Black carpetting?

[bmwstephen]

Did BMW never make e30's with a black carpet from the factory? I noticed even in cars with black seats and panels, the carpet remains grey

[robrez]

Anthracite was the darkest oem color. You can still get the front (main) piece new, but the rear piece is NLA. Dirtboy has the anthracite front and grey rear. I think he's going to dye the rear to match.

[bmwstephen]

great! thank you very much!



Of all the black interiors I've seen in most of the e30s I run into, they had grey carpetting. I assumed it was an interior swap at one point but I guess BMW shut the production of black carpets to reduce costs. Could be worse though, I'm just glad grey makes a perfect 2 tone scheem

[Frog]

Anthracite was the darkest oem color. You can still get the front (main) piece new, but the rear piece is NLA. Dirtboy has the anthracite front and grey rear. I think he's going to dye the rear to match.

Where can you get the front (main) piece new? I think it is the other way around. The rear can still be purchased, but not the front.

[TurboFox93]

Check out my thread here. http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69557

[Frog]

Check out my thread here. http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69557

You can't buy them anymore. I went to theeurodepot and found nothing.

[36brua]

You can't buy them anymore. I went to theeurodepot and found nothing.

?

http://www.theeurodepot.com/products.php?cat=Njc

[BlueBMW]

Didn't someone have some good luck with dying the original carpets black using some upholstery paint? I thought they started with beige carpeting and it came out beautiful when turned black.

[Jand3rson]

Didn't someone have some good luck with dying the original carpets black using some upholstery paint? I thought they started with beige carpeting and it came out beautiful when turned black.

I started with tan carpet and used DupliColor vinyl and fabric paint, and it came out amazing.



After the first application:



Finished. The flash washes it out a bit, but it's a very deep black. I'm pretty happy with it.





You're going to need 3 cans MINIMUM, I ended up using 5 total. 4 on the initial process, and I wanted a spare for areas that I might find later that were lighter or got messed up. I'm going to be using black floormats, and I also didn't use hardly any on the transmission tunnel, since it's all covered by consoles. I didn't go as heavy under the seats, either.

[Jean]

Carpet Set, Anthrazit, Front, 09/85 on, OEM

Manufacturer Name: BMW OEM
Part #: 51 47 1 933 411
Condition: New
Price: $849.99


Lol, that's more than the cost of half of the e30s on here....

[robrez]

Carpet Set, Anthrazit, Front, 09/85 on, OEM

Manufacturer Name: BMW OEM
Part #: 51 47 1 933 411
Condition: New
Price: $849.99


Lol, that's more than the cost of half of the e30s on here....

Serious, which is why I jumped on a flawless front and rear anthracite carpet being sold by a rede30. He even removed the dash and heater core before pulling the carpet, so it's also uncut. I'm not looking forward to doing the same to install it

[Jean]

Ahh it's not too bad. Order new gaskets for the heater box/firewall/dash :)

[yberther]

or just cut it...

he's my freshly SEM painted carpet.

[Jand3rson]

What SEM did you use, the ColorCoat?

[Jean]

You don't really PAINT the carpet though right, you are supposed to DYE it...otherwise it doesn't feel as nice anymore.