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If you have a non-nav factory setup then it's a lot easier. I pulled the whole interior to run cabling for future amps, extension fakra cable, future sub, plus backup camera. And a few other things as well. Also, my wife wanted me to pull the interior too so she could do her signature detail in the living room. She took 3 days to detail all the panels, carpets, etc. She does an amazing job and now the interior looks brand new.

:wow: so you brought interior parts inside and wife clean/detailed them?
I wish my wife is willing to do that....

crystalworks

12-24-2014 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by white46 (Post 1021345)

:wow: so you brought interior parts inside and wife clean/detailed them?
I wish my wife is willing to do that....

Yep, I count my lucky stars every time we buy another used vehicle. She makes me pull the whole interior. She's not happy until it looks new... I'll take some after pics. You can see in the pics I took the interior was dirty from PO. A normal cleaning won't take out dog hair, soiling, etc... and the X hadn't been apart yet so she hadn't done her thing on it yet. Now the X smells better, looks better, and sounds better. :)

Still have some things to sort... need illumination wire and to fix some interference I'm getting with the reverse cam. Other than that it's done. I'll get to work on the DIY PDF and review probably this weekend after Christmas.

Happy Holidays everyone.

Ricky Bobby

12-24-2014 07:23 PM

Merry Christmas bro and that's awesome for your wife you are lucky to have her!

admranger

12-25-2014 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by crystalworks (Post 1021306)

Also, my wife wanted me to pull the interior too so she could do her signature detail in the living room. She took 3 days to detail all the panels, carpets, etc. She does an amazing job and now the interior looks brand new.

Details on her process/products please. :thumbup:

crystalworks

12-25-2014 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by admranger (Post 1021406)

Details on her process/products please. :thumbup:

http://i57.tinypic.com/zx3a80.jpg

That's an E46 M3 vert interior we had here.

Her process is long and arduous. And apparently a closely guarded secret... lol. I just asked her and she wanted no part of sharing it. Women. LOL. ;)

admranger

12-25-2014 04:32 PM

I think I'm on to you. She covered everything in a light coating of peanut butter and the dog took care of the rest. Simple.

crystalworks

12-25-2014 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by admranger (Post 1021417)

I think I'm on to you. She covered everything in a light coating of peanut butter and the dog took care of the rest. Simple.

My wife and I had a good laugh at that one. Cheers to you. LOL. But seriously she has like 3 cleaning steps and a conditioning step on leather/vinyl with a final wipe down of BMW leather/vinyl conditioner. Carpet she has a 2 or 3 step process depending on the starting point.

Guyster4.8is

12-25-2014 10:37 PM

Today I was feeling in the generous spirit and took a leap of faith and let my 18 yr old daughter who's back home on leave from the military borrow the X for a trip to her grandmothers. She's has experience driving BMW's though, as she was the primary driver on my E39 for 2 years during high school, so the interior gauges and layout is familiar. I think she fell in love with the 4.8 power though, and wants to keep it. lol. :nanana: NOT!

four.8is

12-26-2014 04:50 AM

Spent 350$ at detailersdomain on a bunch of goodies.

campy82

12-26-2014 04:41 PM

Used a can of VHT nightshade to turn the backup and turn indicator portions of the tail lights to all red. Got the idea from FMU's Project X. I think it came out great, and will post pics once I can give it a proper wash.

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