My Glacier Green interior color change.

[Miket4991]

Hey guys. So a while back I picked up this 01 glacier green. Finally took care of all the mechanicals. Decided to give and interior color dye a shot. This car was sand beige with brown door panel tops and brown dash top. Some parts were so sun bleached, they looked pink. Ill take some better pics, but now its completely black. Going for the mint choc chip ice cream look on this car

[Miket4991]

This is pretty much what I've done so far.

Front bumper restoration
Rear bumper restoration
Pixel fix
TB gasket, PCV, valley cleaning
Torque converter seal
Transmisson service
ZF filter
Guibo
Transmission mount
Transmission control module
Motor mounts
Front bumper trims
Front bumper plate delete
Rear main seal
Rear coolant plate
Passenger mirror glass
Start wheel refinish
Oil pan reseal, check for any guide material.
Found chain job already done and never a timing fault
Vanos check valves
Complete interior color change.
Front crank seal.
Headliner, all pillars redone
88c Thermostat
Upper rear control arms
Front tension strut bushings.
Zimmerman x drilled rotors(front)
Texstar pads
Vanos solenoid gaskets
Mechanical fan delete

[peacoben]

LOVE the color. Looks exponentially better with the black interior!

[SoCalJuan]

Very cool, what brand die did you use?

[Ghettobird52]

Very nice! Great work.

[Miket4991]

Very cool, what brand die did you use?

Thanks, it was a combo of leatherique, some spray dye and some rit dye. I dunno how sturdy it is just yet, but only I drive or get in the car so just have to be easy on the sills and stuff like that. Nomatter what, its light-years better than before.

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LOVE the color. Looks exponentially better with the black interior!

Thanks, I almost gave up on restoring this car because the interior was so bad lol.

[Sobek]

Damn that looks good!! I love that colour combo. It's interesting how back then BMW seemed to really push certain colour combinations on people - here in Australia, Glacier Green was almost ALWAYS sold with green leather interior. Oxford Green always came with Sandbeige, Silver E38's almost always had grey interiors etc etc... Cars with different combinations to these are more the exception than the norm.

I'm all for swapping it up, it's a big job doing all that dye work but man it looks great now

[Miket4991]

Damn that looks good!! I love that colour combo. It's interesting how back then BMW seemed to really push certain colour combinations on people - here in Australia, Glacier Green was almost ALWAYS sold with green leather interior. Oxford Green always came with Sandbeige, Silver E38's almost always had grey interiors etc etc... Cars with different combinations to these are more the exception than the norm.

I'm all for swapping it up, it's a big job doing all that dye work but man it looks great now

Thank you! So does your car. Haha yep. I've worked on bmws for a while now and its few and far between that I see an E38 with black interior. I think maybe the 90s E38s got more black. USA models have very predictable interior. The sanbeige can be nice, but wasn't working on this car for me. Its shadowline so kinda works. Once I got into it, it was a MUCH bigger job than I anticipated. All the individual plastic pieces for the seats, etc. Felt never ending lol. It still isn't over

[Miket4991]

Few before.

[Ghettobird52]

Thanks, I almost gave up on restoring this car because the interior was so bad lol.

Glad you didn't! I bet your probably one of few, if not the only, Glacier Green E38s in Northern California!

[Miket4991]

Glad you didn't! I bet your probably one of few, if not the only, Glacier Green E38s in Northern California!

Same here! I can finally see the end results taking shape. It wasn't far from the junkyard or maybe being parted out 6 months ago. I dont expect to see many glacier greens around . Finally has grown on me.