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Originally Posted by gprsh924

Matt I need to post pics of my 107k mile E39 seats. They look fantastic.

I think if you can find a car that had been well taken care of, conditioned with a quality product on a regular basis, garage kept, etc then they would look good. But the AVERAGE BMW, and I've looked at a lot of them, does not tend to hold up as well as the competitors. By average I really mean neglected, as most people don't like the work that comes with keeping leather nice. I went to look at a local 2001 W210 E55 yesterday just for the hell of it because it was sitting about 1 mile from my workplace at a dealer's lot. The car was a neglected rusty POS, but the leather seats looked great. I briefly considered a 2001 E39 M5 that has been babied since new by CCA owners, at 83k the front seats need a complete refinish. Only two examples I know, but it is consistent with what I've seen.