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Originally Posted by chrisE92
Looking forward to the part list! I'm pretty much done with my car, so this will be a nice project. Thanks!
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Just keep in mind that this was all done on an E93, which is quite a bit different from the coupe.
With the convertible, the tops of the lateral panels of the rear seat are separate from the lower half and therefore interchangeable. In the E92, they are one piece. In the E93, the separation is just above the ambient lighting strip. So...all I had to do in the rear was order the top part in black from BMW and replace the ambient lighting strips.
In the front, I had the door tops custom covered in black Dakota leatherette. The E92 owner would have to custom cover the tops of the front doors
and the tops of the rear lateral trim panels.
But, I'm afraid it gets even more complicated for the E92 owner. All I had to do was order a new "package tray" (the big plastic piece on the trunk lid) and two small pieces between it and lateral trim panels (which are part of the roof mechanism) and I was done. Took no time to swap out these parts with the roof down. But...the E92 person would have to swap out the rear deck trim from the inside, which is not
that hard to do but a bit more involved than what I was faced with since you have to deal with speakers, get into the trunk, etc.
Plus, I'm not sure how it would look in a creme beige interior without a black headliner, but...it might be just fine. Other than my original interior being a beige blur (and being much less masculine-looking than I was used to in my all black interior E46), the black headliner seemed very lonely, begging or more black inside when the top was up.
The original car had two
very different personalities - top up and top down. Now it is a lot less schizo.
