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Old 10-23-2017, 01:13 PM   #1
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Cloth or leather?

It's the most YOLO purchase I'd make, but we are pretty sure we will be ordering one of the last F80 M3's for late June ED.

I'm settled on several fronts (moon roof instead of CF roof, yes to competition pkg with dark wheels, exterior color, MT, etc).

The one thing I'm still torn on is the interior. As you may or may not know, there are 3 options:

1) Cloth/leather (leather is basic 3er leather) - free
2) "Extended leather" Seats & door panels in fancy leather - $1k
3) "Full leather" Entire dash is wrapped in leather and also top of doors gets leather. An additional $3.5k over extended leather.

If you go with extended, for the same price you can get individual leather, which IMO has better contrasting areas on the dash. Examples below.

http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/u...psdc300bdf.jpg

Cohiba brown below (the color I would pick if we were to go with Individual.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8604/...e26766e3_c.jpg

http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/att...1&d=1444400366

$3.5k is a lot of money for a leather dash, but it does look a lot nicer and allows for different colors.

I like cloth/leather because of the comfort and grip, but I do have kids and think wiping leather will be easier. In both options 1) & 2) I'd go with black.

Thoughts?

Oh, an the exterior color will be Sakhir Orange. It would look like this:

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