body and interior Marine Blue Vinyl Source

[LarsAlpina]

Blue plain Skai vinyl can still be ordered directly at your BMW dealer. Part number is 51 92 7 659 226. Material actually sold perfectly equals the old original finally.

 

Bought some of the reproduction blue vinyl delivered about 2,5 years ago with which the surface embossing was crap at that that time. Had a longer discussion with the woman responsible for all the vinyl and cloth supplied by BMW Classic - her name is Claudia Opel (no joke - real surname). She explained to me that BMW does no longer have old examples of cloth and vinyl in their archives to look at and compare with before the start of a reproduction. I expressed my unhappyness with the quality of the vinyl sold at that time especially considering that BMW does not really sell it cheap.

Finally we agreed that I would cut some pieces from the collection of still original, used seats in my storage (cloth and vinyl in some different colours and types) and send them to her. I do always have some sets of non-mint seats in storage awaiting a recovery so the cutting made no damage.

 

About 8 month later she sent the first examples of the newly reproduced blue vinyl to me that I was quite happy with. Former reproduction was trashed and from that time on the blue vinyl sold by BMW is good quality.

 

Best regards, Lars.

[HBChris]

Veteran has the same vinyl that World and GAHH sells, probably only one source in Europe that they all buy from.