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Old 11-18-2012, 03:30 AM
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Front pillar fabric

My 2 front pillars have bubbles in the grey fabric. Are these easy to replace with black ones? It's annoying
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I know you're out of warranty but I had a couple of mine replaced for that problem while under warranty. Maybe a friendly dealer will do a good will warranty replacement?
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Yes, they are easy to replace. I did this on my wife's, but went through the trouble of removing her old fabric, and then replacing with headliner material. If you are just doing a straight swap with another set of A-pillar's, you only need to remove the "HPS" cover, the underlying screw (T-20, I think) and then pulling off the pillar covers.
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Yes, they are easy to replace. I did this on my wife's, but went through the trouble of removing her old fabric, and then replacing with headliner material. If you are just doing a straight swap with another set of A-pillar's, you only need to remove the "HPS" cover, the underlying screw (T-20, I think) and then pulling off the pillar covers.
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Old 11-19-2012, 03:23 PM
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When you said good will I went
Of course there's a possibility

I kinda thought about changing them
to the other Black headliner fabric.
What's it called????? Starts
with the letter "A"

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alcantara???
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Actually I had to dig to find it. I believe It's called "Anthracite".
I wonder what it would look like if I changed the front pillars to
that material?
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Nah, you prolly don't want to cover your pillars with coal.

Now, alcantara, that might be a better plan
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I know you're out of warranty but I had a couple of mine replaced for that problem while under warranty. Maybe a friendly dealer will do a good will warranty replacement?
You were lucky that it was covered under warranty. My dealer didn't even budge even when I got the local BMW reps involved. So, instead of replacing the 2 pillars that cost them under $100 and make me a happy customer, they chose to give me a $100 gift certificate instead and still a somewhat dissatisfied customer. What kind of moron BS decision is that?

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Actually I had to dig to find it. I believe It's called "Anthracite".
I wonder what it would look like if I changed the front pillars to
that material?
Wouldn't it look odd with anthracite pillars on grey/beige headliner?

FYI...I started noticing that my pillars started bubbling after about the 3rd year. But it has always gone away after parking in the sun. Surprisingly, it still haven't peeled off yet after almost 9 years (it still bubbles). I've always figured that I'll just peel it completely off if it ever comes loose and if it looks bad enough, I could just replace them since it's relatively inexpensive. Only trouble is that I can't tell if mine is grey or beige as the two color are so close.

Hmmm...upon closer inspection, I'm also noticing that the fabric near my seatbelt is doing the same thing (bubbling)
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