Devs1980 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi all. First post here. Bought a 52-plate 330i MSport a month ago. It's got blackberry nappa leather interior, and Harmon Kardon hifi with tape player! http://www.e46zone.com/forum/gallery/image/5175-16715784148-0bb2d7b060-z/ http://www.e46zone.com/forum/gallery/image/5180-16902235232-67f3e4d6d6-z/ First job was to debadge it. I've always preferred BMWs debadged, ever since my dad had a E-reg E30 325i and had it debadged. http://www.e46zone.com/forum/gallery/image/5176-16715787588-d6cc3de75b-z/ I noticed a bit of an oil burning smell ocassionally from the engine and found there was a slight leak from the valve cover, so swapped the gasket. Changed the plugs whilst I was there back to NGKs. http://www.e46zone.com/forum/gallery/image/5181-16903387655-6eed0392b8-z/ The interior is gorgeous, in fact it's what made me buy this one over a couple of others I was looking at. I love the colour and the leather's really soft. It's got quite noticable cracks in the surface, but nothing goes through the leather. So I need to get some scuff guard or something like that. Any suggestions welcome. http://www.e46zone.com/forum/gallery/image/5178-16716016940-25c2b4fa15-z/ http://www.e46zone.com/forum/gallery/image/5174-16281061354-417a80e79c-z/ The_Judge_ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRyan Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Welcome aboard mate, Blackberry Nappa is a lovely option to have! Its looking dry so I'd start with something like Gliptone to rejuvenate it a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay. Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Sapphire black with blackberry Nappa? Terrible combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay. Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 I used gliptone scuff master kit on mine - dyed it looked a bit tired like yours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yatsy999 Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Very nice dude, altho im a little biased, blackberry fwend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devs1980 Posted March 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 I used gliptone scuff master kit on mine - dyed it looked a bit tired like yours Looks lovely! Noticed yours as soon as I started reading e46zone. Do Gliptone make their kit in blackberry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay. Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Thanks pal, I just ordered maroon & it comes with tinters to make it the same colour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devs1980 Posted March 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Thanks Jay, that's great. I've seen that kit on the bay. I'll get on to that :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay. Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Sound mate Get the gliptone twins as they are known too to clean it & make it nice & matte finish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Judge_ Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) Hmm, someone told me to de-badge once, maybe he was right ...... Nice looking motor dude Edited March 24, 2015 by The_judge aka Suf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDevil Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 I used gliptone scuff master kit on mine - dyed it looked a bit tired like yours Looks lovely! Noticed yours as soon as I started reading e46zone. Do Gliptone make their kit in blackberry? Hello mate Yes gliptone do a blackberry kit but its not advertised on ebay message them on here for blackberry and get ur discount i have not got round to redying mine, let me know how you get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 (edited) Hi, This is my old car! Do you still have it?? I had it from new and put 58000 miles on it from Sept 2002 to Aug 2006. Was originally my company car and ordered options as a factory order via lease plan using Synters in Nottingham. I wanted red leather but it was cancelled as an option so changed it at the last minute to the blackberry. Been hooked on BMs ever since and nothing I owned compared to the manual 330i feel since. It actually had an engine fault on it at 30000 miles and BMW replaced the cylinder heads under warranty so interested that you took top half of engine off. Just a service or something more sinister?? Also interesting looking at leather after 14 years. It was a more vivid plum colour when I owned it although those side boulsters were beginning to show some wear. Love to hear if you still got or not?? John Edited January 10, 2019 by JohnB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berts Posted January 11, 2019 Report Share Posted January 11, 2019 8 hours ago, JohnB said: Hi, This is my old car! Do you still have it?? I had it from new and put 58000 miles on it from Sept 2002 to Aug 2006. Was originally my company car and ordered options as a factory order via lease plan using Synters in Nottingham. I wanted red leather but it was cancelled as an option so changed it at the last minute to the blackberry. Been hooked on BMs ever since and nothing I owned compared to the manual 330i feel since. It actually had an engine fault on it at 30000 miles and BMW replaced the cylinder heads under warranty so interested that you took top half of engine off. Just a service or something more sinister?? Also interesting looking at leather after 14 years. It was a more vivid plum colour when I owned it although those side boulsters were beginning to show some wear. Love to hear if you still got or not?? John Sorry but it doesn't look likely the car is still about , just looked at MOT history on https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk and on there it says MOT ran out in September 2016. It had 136,052 miles on it when it passed the Last MOT in 2015. also Devs1980 not been on forum since April 2016 which might point at it been scrapped in 2016 but who knows maybe it's still sitting in a barn or garage somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo Posted January 11, 2019 Report Share Posted January 11, 2019 Or stripped to be tracked/drifted etc.. berts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
