Yes welcome to another edition of Starscream's appearance mod threads!
Ive been busy with the Carbon Fiber fabric again, Some of you might recall my previous thread when I did my friends M3 interior in this material,
-------> http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8590
So I had a bit of left over material to use, and I was thinking about doing my door handles in the M,
Now here is a before pic
In my M I have the Chromeline Silver trim along with Full extended black nappa leather
(for pics of my thread on extended leather http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4377)
Even though I love the chromeline silver I thought It might look good in carbon fabric to match the carbon leather in my car,
The fabric is pretty close to the real thing, Its a little more shiny, But its very close and to the untrained eye you would think its the same thing,
So thanks to board member "jra" who donated to me his old door handles he had experimented on (as I didn't want to ruin my chromeline handles) I now had 2 used handles to play with,
So here is what I did,
Started with the handle and a left over piece of carbon fabric, also noted the weave of the carbon leather in my car and matched the pattern accordingly
A closeup of the carbon fabric
Then I sprayed the 3M glue on the door handle after a light sanding and alcohol rinse
I then started to wrap the handle and smooth out the air bubbles,
I'm not going to bore with exactly how I folded it over and glued it etc etc but here is the final handle
and the other as finished and some close up's
Ok so we will get into those installed a little later,
Now quickly onto the next mod,
In all recent BMW M models thay have all had the ///M footrest,
I like this footrest and having an M I want one!
I noticed they sell them for the E90 3 Series and I might just get another for my E90 down the road, But they retail for around $20!
So I bought one and modified it slightly to fit to the Z4 footrest,
I pulled my footrest out of the car (its only attached by velcro)
and then I cut the attaching hardware off the back of the M footrest and 3M taped it to the Z4 Footrest,
Yes its not a "perfect" fit, but it does look nice installed,
Ok now on with what everything looks like installed,
You have to forgive the lighting, I started taking the pictures outside and they came out a little washed out,
I then took it inside and it came out a little dark but these were the best of the bunch,
and then finally the footrest installed
Hope you enjoy the pics and writeup!
Ive been busy with the Carbon Fiber fabric again, Some of you might recall my previous thread when I did my friends M3 interior in this material,
-------> http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8590
So I had a bit of left over material to use, and I was thinking about doing my door handles in the M,
Now here is a before pic
In my M I have the Chromeline Silver trim along with Full extended black nappa leather
(for pics of my thread on extended leather http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4377)
Even though I love the chromeline silver I thought It might look good in carbon fabric to match the carbon leather in my car,
The fabric is pretty close to the real thing, Its a little more shiny, But its very close and to the untrained eye you would think its the same thing,
So thanks to board member "jra" who donated to me his old door handles he had experimented on (as I didn't want to ruin my chromeline handles) I now had 2 used handles to play with,
So here is what I did,
Started with the handle and a left over piece of carbon fabric, also noted the weave of the carbon leather in my car and matched the pattern accordingly
A closeup of the carbon fabric
Then I sprayed the 3M glue on the door handle after a light sanding and alcohol rinse
I then started to wrap the handle and smooth out the air bubbles,
I'm not going to bore with exactly how I folded it over and glued it etc etc but here is the final handle
and the other as finished and some close up's
Ok so we will get into those installed a little later,
Now quickly onto the next mod,
In all recent BMW M models thay have all had the ///M footrest,
I like this footrest and having an M I want one!
I noticed they sell them for the E90 3 Series and I might just get another for my E90 down the road, But they retail for around $20!
So I bought one and modified it slightly to fit to the Z4 footrest,
I pulled my footrest out of the car (its only attached by velcro)
and then I cut the attaching hardware off the back of the M footrest and 3M taped it to the Z4 Footrest,
Yes its not a "perfect" fit, but it does look nice installed,
Ok now on with what everything looks like installed,
You have to forgive the lighting, I started taking the pictures outside and they came out a little washed out,
I then took it inside and it came out a little dark but these were the best of the bunch,
and then finally the footrest installed
Hope you enjoy the pics and writeup!
