07/05/2026
TLDR: beautiful car needs a better headliner etc 😆
This car is stunning! Before this one, I’m not sure I had ever seen an E34 M5 in the flesh, they’re pretty rare and this is an excellent example. Beautiful Avus Blue with the silver grey interior is such a great colour combo. 👌🏼
Anyway, there’s always room for improvement and unfortunately this car had previously had its headliner, pillars, sunroof panel and rear parcel shelf recovered in a not so great faux suede. I assume due to the lack of stretch in the material, the trimmer had opted to glue fake seams and panels in the grab handle apertures and around the sunroof opening. The sunroof panel was glued directly over the original and the glue used throughout wasn’t up to the job and would sag in warm weather.
To be fair it was a neat job and was probably quite tricky to do, but it wasn’t right. Next post will be the afters.