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Is Contrasting Silver Stitching Not Standard?
Featured on BIMMERPOST.com Further, the following text can be found in the "Individual" subsection of the "Design" section. Quote:
For me, the silver contrasting stitching was a strong player in me picking the black interior over the Silverstone interior. I certainly hope that it will come that way. Hopefully someone can clarify this and that this point in M3/M4 showroom is only a fluke UPDATE: Just received confirmation from BMW Canada through my dealer. The contrasting silver stitching will be part of the "Individual" offering starting with July production. Further, it will only be offered along with the FULL Merino leather option and not with the extended option . They should receive pricing for the "Individual" stitching in the next few weeks. That sucks. I feel that it is very close at being false representation on the part of BMW. The price tag/description beside the M4 at the car show did not mention this. Anyhow, it was most likely in the fine print . So that seals the deal for me. Going with Silverstone interior instead. I am not willing to shed $2500 for full leather + $X for the stitching. UPDATE #2: To make things more confusing, I just received this e-mail from BMW Canada: Quote:
UPDATE #3: It finally seems that black extended and full leather interior do indeed come with GREY contrasting stitching standard. I wonder what is the point of the Silverstone Individual one then? More contrast? Shinier? ? Last edited by CanAutM3; 07-12-2016 at 07:59 AM.. |
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I have to say I was surprised that they had contrast stitching on the show cars, since like you I would have assumed those would not have been optioned with individual or added cost options unless shown on the chart that was next to each show car.
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03-12-2014, 05:06 PM | #4 |
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Looks like black leather will have black stitching.
Even BMW UK configurator is not showing contrast stitching with black leather. It used to show white/silverstone stitching before. This is very disappointing. I will now have to choose different interior choice. Last edited by parky1215; 03-12-2014 at 05:16 PM.. |
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This definitely would be very disappointing. I actually like Silverstone most of all interior colors, but since it's hard to keep it clean, I'd maybe go with black and the contrast stiching was the big bonus of it. In the swiss configurator there's still the contrast stiching, but maybe they'll remove it as well (as appartently in UK).
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That really effing blows if true, I changed from SS to black just for that reason. I mean wtf how hard is it to change the fabric color and not charge so much. F you BMW... Ok where do I sign up lol.
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We just can't win. If some different colored thread is going to cost thousands, you might as well just opt for a fully Individual interior. Charging that much for a thread color change is downright ridiculous.
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In the pictures below from the press release, it is also clearly not black. The stitching of the full leather on the passenger dash and the upper portion of the doors is black. The rest of the stitching is silver/grey. Last edited by CanAutM3; 03-12-2014 at 08:31 PM.. |
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In the Belgian configurator, the contrasting stitching seems to be gone from the black interior. However, it still seems to be present on the black sections of the silverstone interior (see pics below). If that is the case, I will be changing my order to silverstone. I hope BMW will not change this on us too .
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Contrast stitching looks great and costs BMW zero in added costs if they make it standard. I'm not sure why they didn't go this route with the black interior.
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I hate all black interiors but since I want AY, I was going to allow myself to be ok with a black interior because of the contrast sticking. I seen the contrast stitching in Detroit and it looked really good. If this is true, then I might just have to drop the 2k on ind stitching. I dislike all black interiors that much! Question though... I wonder what that first AY/BLK M4 that rolled off the production line had? That should have been the full production version of the car.
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This is not the case in the F8X where the trim is limited to a small portion of the dash and centre console. The trim does not extend to the doors or rear quarters. The contrasting stitching is a must to avoid the black interior to be too boring IMO, especially in the rear. Last edited by CanAutM3; 03-12-2014 at 09:46 PM.. |
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It clearly sates it will be available in July 2014.. Matte exterior colors available in 2015.. At least that's what it said last night when I read the text..
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