Spike, I have black plastic trim in mine. I suspect all styles are plastic.

Ian.

I can't speak for the newer style wood trim but on the older E34 the trim was a wood veneer finish moulded for the relevant section in the car. These were replaced for the later models with plastic wood effect trim. I would hazard a guess that the E39 would be plastic wood effect as well.

I am on the look out for carbon efect trim if anyone knows a supplier for the E34.

Russ

spike wrote: Hopefully an easy question. E39 , is the wood trim really wood or a plastic imitation. My guess is that it is plastic. Anyone know?

Wood

Thanks Lozlee i checked the prewoodec stuff on there and they do a carbon trim so i mailed them asking if they do them for the E34.

Russ

Russ,

How did you get on with the dash kit? I'm thinking of changing mine too as I have a wood look on aluminium kit which just looks bad.

Cheers

Still waiting for a reply i think i may mail them again and hope to get a reply monday/tuesday before i go off shore.

Russ

Tried phoning larkspeed and get no joy but have found a site online that does 2 kits 11 piece for £85.90 inc vat and del and the 21 piece for £130.55 check out http://www.designtuning.co.uk/home.html - Design Tuning .

Russ

Also found a couple of sellers on ebay at £116 inc del for uk supplier £77 plus del from germany and euro car parts do the kit for £116 plus del for the 22 piece (3 pieces are just screw covers).

Russ

Has anyone seen the quality and fit of these kits?

I also saw a method where the actual car part can be printed on. I was utterly amazed. Check out http://www.cubic.co.jp - www.cubic.co.jp

that looks rather cool. however i feel taking the car apart to get the parts finished is a tad extreme. Regarding the kits themselves from the info i have obtained they are 2.5mm thick with a very high gloss finish to make it look 3 dimensional. I have already purchased parts like this and they do look quite effective looking at them in person.

here is a picture of a dash surround i bought in carbon trim it looks a bit funny in the picture but looks alot better in different lights and angles.

Once i get the rest of the trim it should offset the black interior a little making it not so dark.

Russ

Slightly off-topic question but since Russ has posted a photo of his dash above, I thought I'd ask... does anyone know what the little round light above the oil pressure warning lamp is?  It's the one adjacent to the 0 on the rev counter.  My manual doesn't say what it is so that got me wondering...

Paul

Ingenious, clever folk those Germans!  Thanks for correcting me there (next time I'll read the handbook properly)

Paul

Hi Russ,

Great fit. The pictures on Design Tuning's site do the kit more justice. I didn't see the clocks surround in the E34 kit,though.

The clock surround i bought off ebay.com (US seller) a few months back just to see if it would look any good before doing the rest of the car. The black carbon fibre effect does accent the black interior well without it standing out too much.

I am off shore from tomorrow so i wont be able to do much until i get back in 3 weeks but when im back ill look into the kit more.

Russ