I wonder if Avonside got steak knifes too?

No he didnt, although I have had awesome customer service from Lawerence, I had a major disaster just before xmas 2007 and had a major road trip over xmas and new year planned I was driving down to the French alps with the family ie 2 young boys in the back and wifey up front and one of the cable sets had shattered in the cold as it got stuck under the seat and I had only one set working :( you can imagine my nightmare trip ahead , so a quick desperate call to Lawerence in the USA and a new set of cables arrived within a couple of days, mine and the wifes sanity saved. And yes we had a wonderfull ski vacation and the Invission system worked perfect, in fact my eldest was in heaven as he had a new PS2 for xmas and was able to play it in the car, what joy. I wish I was a kid again I never got any of this treatment on my family car vacations we were left to play I spy looking out of the window LOL LOL :bustingup:bustingup

Mike, why are you so special?

I have officially started as Director of Customer Service for Gil Hibben Knives. Seriously you guys are all going to get knives so I can stab all of your old headrests and put little slits in them if you don't stop blowing me up like this.

It's embarrasing when I blush. :p::p:

Thank you all for your support and yes for the record Jeff I really haven't seen a headrest like yours before. I am going to try and DR. Frankenstein this together so it does the same thing as your factory headrest. But very interesting looking. A first for me and I am quite sure not the last.

Avonside...Greetings to the UK! Booyakasha from the West Staines Massive! Wadwan!

Hey I hope you are doing great. Please give my love to the Queen, I just got a kit out to her so she can watch reruns of Ali G and Little Brittain in the Ambassador 7 Series! LOL! J/k!

Thanks to you all for your cander and enthusiasm. But I have big bucks to make so I can keep you all happy. And now I am off to the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe they need a kit or 2 in Ecuador?

Take Care!

-Law :thumbup:

Congratulations on your new position. I look forward to getting my set of cutlery in the mail soon!

I know I got curious about my headrests so I started browsing ebay for other 4.8is with comfort seats. Everyone that I saw (not real good photos), seemed to have their headrests completely wrapped in Nappa leather. So, I guess I am special in a way, well not me, my car's interior.

I am going to Mexico in 2 weeks Lawrence, you think I can have the new ones for the long trip? It's like a 20 minute drive to the airport. :rofl:

As if anyone needs to ask.:thumbup:

Wow, so the boss is leaving and starting to work for a knife company. That sucks, but glad I got my free knife set; anything goes wrong with them I know who to go to for A+ customer support! Down side is that it looks like I won't be getting a DVD set through him after all which is okay, because as good as they are I think I found something better.

Hey Lawrence! Can you help me out with my headrests too? My leather doesn't match either. I have the Alcantara/Nappa sport seats. I noticed they didn't match well but the car has been in the shop for the past week. I'm going to call you tomorrow.

Jeff- I have been looking at a bunch of headrest photos and I guess one of the differences between comfort and non-comfort seats is that comfort seat headrests seem to be made from 3 panels of leather, whereas for example sports seat headrests look like they are made from 2 panels. Take a look. The first two are sports seat, the 3rd is yours.

Also, since comfort seats also came in Dakota leather I found a couple of photos that seem to show the same leather on those 3 panels. So I'm left thinking that it is the comfort seat + nappa that is the issue, which would isolate it to just the 'is models, and not the comfort seat all by itself.

Good find Mike! :thumbup::thumbup:

Comfort Seats would be 3 panels of leather and non-comfort seats would be 2. In the comfort seats the front and back are all one piece with the sides being an individual piece of leather.

I've been trying to look for comfort seats in other X5's particularly the 4.8is, and I haven't came across any good photos to where I can see the detail.