E46 Sedan A,B, and C pillar reupholstering
2016 ж. 15 Там.
70 991 Рет қаралды
Being 10 years old Clara the 2005 330xi had sagging A,B, and C pillars...thats unacceptable so here is how i redid them.
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Being 10 years old Clara the 2005 330xi had sagging A,B, and C pillars...thats unacceptable so here is how i redid them.
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Car IG: @boosted_clara
Out of all the other videos, this is the only one that goes really in-depth with all the pillars. I am currently missing some pieces from the pillars but now I know what to watch out for and get for my e46.
You dont need to remove the foot trims. You just have to pull it backwards / forward and there will be enough space to remove the bottom of the B pillar. That is quite hard too
Nice job! I have an E46 2001 330i. It has a gray interior. Went to jo Anne fabric and decided on black as well. Will be doing this in sections this week. Nice overview on removal of pieces. This will help tremendously.
I have a 2003 330xi I purchased last year. I had the interior headliner, but they would not upholster the pillars. The plastic was so fragile as I found out when I upholstered A and C pillars. I could not find any u tube videos on how to replace the B pillars except for yours. Thanks for the help, and oy was it a ton of work. I had broken some of the plastic pieces on every one of the pillars. Live and learn. By the way, this was my very first car to do this on.
Also, I'm 65 years old and have been retired for a year. I had so much fun learning, and it really boosted my confidence. Made lots of mistakes. Good thing it's my car. I'm also repairing a few small areas of the body and learning how to paint it with the help of my friend. What great therapy.
best tutorial for pillar removals bro, well done.
I did my 325i in black micro suede including the headliner. I even wrapped the wood grain trim on dash and doors too. Looks way different
Great video, keep em coming.
I still need to do my B pillar, but good job man. These ALL do this. Midwest cars take a little longer.
Looks awesome dude thanks for the vid
Worked for me, great, the peeling covering was driving me crazy
Great video. U relle go indepth n I like that you actually show the work being done unlike other people who just show the part alone.. imo I think you should have pull the fabric slightly tight this way to give it a little form. I've done mine n many e39s
Did you reattach those plastic trims back on the A pillar? I'm going to reupholster my e46 also and wondering how can I put them back and make it look flush with the pillars. did you glue them back on?
I have a 2001 BMW 740i sport with a black interior, grey pillars and headliner. I went with black, but on the B pillars I wrapped the sliding seatbelt adjuster insert with carbon fiber instead of leaving it grey. Left all the wood trim alone. I'm looking for 750il front seat backs in black.
I know this comment is super old but I want to thank you. I'm pulling my pillars of to wrap with perferated leather and I have some unused carbon fiber vinyl laying around. 🙏
Thanks bro really helped me
This is a good vid. My only complaint is that you didn't give many wide angle views of the finished product. That would be a good addition. I have a 2004 325i, and just did the A pillars. I'll definitely do the B and C pillars soon. Thanks for the vid.
How did you get your dash trim pieces to look like that? hydrodip or wrap?
Good video! Gonna do this in my coupe soon. My flock my pillars tho!
I don't get why you would cover them in black with a tan interior. My guess is that because it's easier to source black fabric locally than fabric matching the tan color, but black pillars in a tan interior looks terrible. It looks bettere than all that loose fabric, but not by much.
I can’t get the driver side Pilar trim to go in plz help
8:46 "There is like pubes everywhere" lol great video man I'm finally redoing my B pillars this will definitely help
How much fabric did you buy?
If you have used cellulosic thinner it would be easy to remove those fabric residues. No need to use dremel and damage the plastic.
GOOD video can you tell me what is the name of the fabric it looks nice
I don't know the name of the fabric. I only compared it to the factory and got the closest match at the fabric shop
Hello sir good videos My stock material for pillar Cannot go ou The glue is super tight What can i do to remove tha fabris?
wire wheel the shit out of it
Small tip, you might want too cut the sound out when your useing the grinder, it's not the best sound for headphone users :)
How has it held up over time?? Is it sagging again or doing well?
Downtime Media had no issues
Do you have a video on how you changed that ugly fake brown wood looking trim. I have the same car and it's all cracked and honestly very nauseating to my eyes and gives me horrible anxiety haha. I want to change it to black.
I do not. If you search on an e46 forum I'm sure there are a lot of good DIYs of it. Basically for everything but the trim around the shifter you just need to get something soft under the trim and carefully pull up. All of the trim on the doors and dash is held in by little clips.
take it off and use the black wrap you find at autoparts stores like autozone
What is that sound at 1:04? 😂
10:42 whats this ??
“There are just pubes everywhere!”
Those c pillars should have a bolt behind the light
getting that fuzz crap off is the most fun part!🤬
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Word of caution. Disconnect the battery so you remove the possibility of triggering the airbag. Thnx.
rednightist Don't tell me what to do! Im poking my airbags right now nothings happening. Still poking it nothings ha
rednightist sure wish I knew that lol but I didn't even remove my pilar I remember the battery after I inserted my tool on pillar B bam air bag light grrrr
Christina Garcia airbag light reset tool
crosswire7777 thks I have the Carly app I was about to see if it would reset it thanks
Just a FYI my Carly tool dose reset airbag
What glues did you use?
3M-80 you can use 3M's 77 too
I was wondering why you would put black upholstery when the interior is beige but then I saw your interior trim and realized you're a professional car ruiner by trade.
thankfully I've changed out the trim since this video
Good because that stuff was fonky looking. I saw it at the end and I was like, "Whoa." for a second. Also when you disassemble your interior, thats when you can go in and do a good cleaning on every part front and back. Cool video.
And now we've all realized that you're a professional moron. There is plenty of black trim in this car, and making jackass statements to people who are just trying to help others says more about you than him. I think you're too stupid to realize just how stupid you really are... How's that?
@@AquaStevae At first. Look after dunning kruger effect, please. Secondly, he is very much right. The point is, he has got a good car, it's interior is just about perfect as it is. Then the guy in the video decided not to change it, but to ruin it. How that interior looks is disgusting. No offense, it's just a fact. I can imagine that in a video he is kicking his car to make it more "stylish". Or glue his towel on the seat, because why not? + the guy even used the worst possible material because it was cheap and not designed for it, so really, why not? If he would have done the whole interior giving everything a different color. Yes. That's still a very bad idea but that looks far more acceptable. (Seen it before.)
The back seats go down on facelifts? Wtf someone trade me lmfao
My suggestion is to spend the money and buy the genuine part Trying to fix it yourself will look like garbage
This video demonstrates just how flimsy our modern day automobiles are constructed. Starting with sub-standard materials (e.g. fabrics, adhesives, plastics, etc.) all the way through poor assembly methods at the factory, the majority of our cars are put together in a matter of hours and turned out by the thousands each day. Highly over-priced and inferior in quality, they end up in the driveways of unsuspecting families who end up paying way too much for car loans, auto maintenance and repairs. The whole system is designed to rob us blind and send us into debt for years to come.
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One of the safest cars on the road buddy. You are ignorant.