# Interior swap on my e30... **URL:** \ **Category:** Builds\ **Created:** [April 25, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404 "2008-04-25T08:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![graphicrage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@graphicrage](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/graphicrage)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/1 "2008-04-25T08:32:14Z")
I just completed an interior swap on my e30 last night so I figured I’d share some pics. Took much longer than I expected (2 weeks) because of the unfortunate discovery of the rusted floor pan on the passenger front due to a leaky a/c drain. It’s POR-15d for now, planning on having a new floor pan welded in over the winter since it’s off the road then anyway. So I went forward with the rest of the swap, here’s some crappy cell pics. SOOOO much nicer, the seats are awesome (out of an 89 325is). I have a 320i non-s so my seats pretty much felt like springy folding chairs and the rain and snow for a year into the car didn’t help matters. Before… ![http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/2398503323_2507afb409.jpg](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/2398503323_2507afb409.jpg) After… ![http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2438732876_c84249bb56.jpg](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2438732876_c84249bb56.jpg) ![http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/2441112938_dde084ef01.jpg](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/2441112938_dde084ef01.jpg) ![http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/2440285003_c3cc321229.jpg](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/2440285003_c3cc321229.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/2 "2008-04-25T08:34:43Z")
cool… Black always looks better … The tan interior BLOWs … I hate looking at mine everyday ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Slopoke](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slopoke/32/7248_2.png) [@Slopoke](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slopoke)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/3 "2008-04-25T08:37:09Z")
nice :tup: ---
**Author:** ![Anonymity](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/anonymity/32/7215_2.png) [@Anonymity](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Anonymity)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/4 "2008-04-25T08:50:34Z")
was this a stock swap? meaning from another car not aftermarket. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/5 "2008-04-25T08:50:55Z")
> [@Anonymity](#): > > was this a stock swap? meaning from another car not aftermarket. YES. ---
**Author:** ![graphicrage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@graphicrage](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/graphicrage)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/6 "2008-04-25T08:57:10Z")
Yeah, everything is stock, including the carpet… Not sure what year the carpet is from because I bought it from someone other than who I got the seats from, but the thing is SPOTLESS. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/7 "2008-04-25T21:18:35Z")
Any “middle” shots, specifically POR’ing the surface? ---
**Author:** ![graphicrage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@graphicrage](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/graphicrage)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/8 "2008-04-26T06:22:52Z")
I thought about that right after I installed the carpet, that I hadn’t gotten any POR15 shots… I basically just hit the affected areas, the driver pan had some very light surface rust and the driver rear had some minor surface as well, but the passenger side is a bloody mess that will get corrected over the winter. i just slopped it on as thick as I could to preserve it’s current state until it’s repaired professionally, and put down the carpet. All in all, not bad for a car that sat without it’s top for a year and was filled with snow and rain. The carpet had dried, but the pad was still sopping wet behind the drive seat when I finally pulled it out. It turns out the floor pans suffered only minor damage from that, the real damage was the years of a/c drain hose leakage onto the passenger front pan. The new carpet was a real bitch to get in. It has the padding molded right onto it. The old carpet had a separate pad which was identical, but not attached to the carpet. When the carpet comes back out to weld in the new passenger floor pan, I’ll probably por15 everything. It’s a tough call, it’s a can of worms the more you get into it and I don’t want to do a total frame off restoration, at least not yet, it’s not THAT bad… ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/9 "2008-04-26T09:16:58Z")
looks good, want to trade? 🙂 [http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48950](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48950) ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/10 "2008-04-26T10:19:09Z")
E30’s are body-on-frame? Looks good regardless, get those seats reupholstered and you’ll be in business :tup: ---
**Author:** ![graphicrage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@graphicrage](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/graphicrage)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interior-swap-on-my-e30/47404/11 "2008-04-26T21:10:39Z")
The seats don’t need to be reupholstered, none of the cracks are through the leather. They just need a good cleaning and polish. And no, I don’t want to trade. I love my seats.