my 1992 525i has cloth interior? anyone know why?

[Gayle]

Young Pete

Take a pic. We want to see them.

[Paul in NZ]

cloth was standard here and in the UK,leather was an option....and to make it more confusing,mine has most options but no wood trim.....

[pmlmotorsports]

ok, here goes..........most, if not all 525s were dealer pre-ordered cars, and virtually all these cars were ordered with leather. However, a few select owners actually ordered their cars and waited. If you wanted a 1989 - 1993 525i and were willing to have it built to your exact specs, you could've ordered it with leatherette or cloth as standard, or spent the extra $$$$ and ordered leather. It's like anything else in the auto industry, if the car manufacturer needs a lease to be @ $299/month, they'll offer the bare bones basic model to "fit" the price-point. Similarly, in 1995 MOST dealers offered the E34 with the M-Tech kit for their inventory as BMW made it part of a "premium package" that usually included wood trim interior and BBS style wheels.


HTH

[JAlfredPrufrock]

Voted I wish I had cloth.

[shragon]

ok, here goes..........most, if not all 525s were dealer pre-ordered cars, and virtually all these cars were ordered with leather. However, a few select owners actually ordered their cars and waited. If you wanted a 1989 - 1993 525i and were willing to have it built to your exact specs, you could've ordered it with leatherette or cloth as standard, or spent the extra $$$$ and ordered leather. It's like anything else in the auto industry, if the car manufacturer needs a lease to be @ $299/month, they'll offer the bare bones basic model to "fit" the price-point. Similarly, in 1995 MOST dealers offered the E34 with the M-Tech kit for their inventory as BMW made it part of a "premium package" that usually included wood trim interior and BBS style wheels.


HTH

all 95 e34's in the US came with m-tech sideskirts (not front and rear bumpers), regardless if the car was bare bones or fully loaded. premium package on the '95 525i added leather seats, wood trim, basketweave wheels, etc... i have the original brochure.

for example, here's a '95 525i with no premium package (notice the wheels), but it still has m-tech sideskirts.


however, most recently, i have seen one picture of a '95 e34 in europe, which was a lowly 518i or 520i, with no m-tech sideskirts and lower black bottom bumpers, but it did still have a wide grill.

[DallasBill]

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It also has a euro only opiton (I'm pretty sure) ,with the rear center armrest down, it has a water-proof bag that comes out so you can put your snow ski's in the trunk and into the passenger compartment.
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Chris

I know the ski bag was an option is Canada. A friend in Calgary has it on a '94 they purchased there new.

[Anthony (M5 in Calgary)]

I know the ski bag was an option is Canada. A friend in Calgary has it on a '94 they purchased there new.

A well received option too - my last 3 bimmers have had them: '88 325iS, '90 535iM, '91 M5.

[Young Pete]

Young Pete

Take a pic. We want to see them.

sorry dont have a digital camera right now....ok i will describe my Euro? bimmer. i bought the car used from a local used car lot back in 1999.

its a 1992 m50 alpine white 525i automatic with one color(gray) all cloth seats/interior no leather whatsoever (not even leather trim), the cloth looks very nice though, not the two tone kind like the e34 i see from the guy from croatia!!!!. These seats are definitely genuine oem look straight from the factory, with heated seats and 2 pairs of armrests that look very oem. it has no wood trim, it did not come with an obc, just the regular digital one, the the wheels were the stock bottleneck type. it did come with a toolkit underneath the trunk (im sure every e34 would). oh yeah, its got power windows on all for sides. last, its got a POWER ANTENNA IN THE BACK! I SEEM TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THIS TOO..............

PLEASE HELP ME FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS CAR............................

so far so good its got 192k miles and counting.

THIS IS PROBABLY A CUSTOM BUILT EURO SPEC MADE TO ORDER I ASSUME. I WILL TAKE PICTURES WHEN I GET A DC. could this be a direct order from germany at one time....

ANY COMMENTS.......

[Paul in NZ]

PLEASE HELP ME FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS CAR............................

check the last 7 numbers of your vin here ,type it in the car "serial number" and see for yourself.....

[Sean H]

Probably not a custom euro car or a transpant or anything like that. Cloth interior was a no-cost option on early US 525's. It just wasn't a very popular one.