BMW- cream leather interior - is it hard to keep clean?

looking4advice

I had a look at a BMW during the week, which ticks all the boxes but has cream leather seats. Just wondering how they are to keep clean, especially the cream carpets?

I don't have any kids, don't need it for commute and it would be kept in an underground car park so it would be kept 'clean' without too much effort.

VolvoMan

No; cream interiors are never easy to keep clean.

Reloc8

Mate in similar circumstances to you has one.

Not easy to keep decent looking generally.

Especially when a colleague's pen leaked all over the passenger seat.

Look for a black leather interior if I was you.

sid40

have a 520 with "oyster" leather which is like an off-white/light cream colour. No probs whatsoever six months in. Do give it a wipe down with a leather cleaner every 6-8 weeks, still looks new. Black leather very oppressive looking? My carpet is black so easy to keep clean, not sure how the beige carpet would fare? Also have rubber mats which defo help keep the floor area clean...

-Corkie-

I think cream leather makes the car look more substansial compared to a black interior.

Eric Cartman

cream/grey leather is harder to keep clean , but when the car ages a bit it wont show up the marks that black leather will , I just use autoglym to clean the seats and it removes most bits

VolvoMan

-Corkie- wrote: »

I think cream leather makes the car look more substansial compared to a black interior.

I'd probably be inclined to go for cream leather seats and a black interior.

-Corkie-

VolvoMan wrote: »

I'd probably be inclined to go for cream leather seats and a black interior.

Ya true allthough I will never have one because my wife detests it for some reason..:rolleyes:

looking4advice

sid40 wrote: »

have a 520 with "oyster" leather which is like an off-white/light cream colour. No probs whatsoever six months in. Do give it a wipe down with a leather cleaner every 6-8 weeks, still looks new. Black leather very oppressive looking? My carpet is black so easy to keep clean, not sure how the beige carpet would fare? Also have rubber mats which defo help keep the floor area clean...

I suppose my main concern would be keeping the cream carpets clean - wet shoes etc.

-Corkie-

looking4advice wrote: »

I suppose my main concern would be keeping the cream carpets clean - wet shoes etc.

Get a set of black mats..

smtdos

Autoglym leather cleaner and a finger nail brush will keep the cream leather perfect.

Voodoomelon

looking4advice wrote: »

I had a look at a BMW during the week, which ticks all the boxes but has cream leather seats.

What a bizarre sentence, cream/oyster leather is THE box to tick!

looking4advice

Voodoomelon wrote: »

What a bizarre sentence, cream/oyster leather is THE box to tick!

Different strokes.......I like the look, its just the practicaliy of it all. The leather seats should be fine. The cream carpet would concern me more.

Voodoomelon

If you're single, cream all the way. If you have a messy wife/gf/kids, go with something darker.

EDIT: I love the interior of this E38, best of both worlds: http://www.gmscars.co.uk/bmw_740_sport_avus-details.html

-Corkie-

Voodoomelon wrote: »

If you're single, cream all the way. If you have a messy wife/gf/kids, go with something darker.

EDIT: I love the interior of this E38, best of both worlds: http://www.gmscars.co.uk/bmw_740_sport_avus-details.html

Thats savage, I love it.

dharn

have one with cream leather no bother keeping it clean, go for it

R.O.R

Being very familiar with what cars look like after 3 or 4 years of hard use, I would never go for a car with a beige or cream carpets.

The Oyster / Black option offered by BMW is ideal giving the light seats and black elsewhere.

A decent compramise would be black mats - see if you can get the dealer to throw them in as part of the deal. That doesn't leave too much carpet exposed to get filthy.

Don't worry about the seats though. Leather wipes clean without too much effort.

heate

I've a BMW with white seats (yes white), black dash, headlining and carpets. Seats need the odd wipe after a long journey in blue jeans and every couple of weeks, I've 270km on the clock and the interior looks as new.

I have found that light interiors are what you want to avoid esp. carpets from foot marks and scuffs all over the dash and what not. Eventually impossible to clean

Eric Cartman

cream leather, cream carpet, wood trim - doesnt get better than this , im 50/50 on the dash though, might look well in black

WestWing

I always use this on cream leather. Does a nice job and smells good.

bazz26

Light coloured leather trim is not an issue, just a rub of a damp cloth and some leather cleaner/restorer and it looks practically brand new. Light coloured carpet/mats on the other hand is a PITA to keep clean especially around the floor area. Getting some dark coloured mats might help.

Cream/beige interior does look the part though but can be high maintenance. I hate black leather as it seems to wear too easily, mine below has grey leather with black headlining and find it is the nicest colour combination.

Eric Cartman

bazz26 wrote: »

Light coloured leather trim is not an issue, just a rub of a damp cloth and some leather cleaner/restorer and it looks practically brand new. Light coloured carpet/mats on the other hand is a PITA to keep clean especially around the floor area. Getting some dark coloured mats might help.

Cream/beige interior does look the part though but can be high maintenance. I hate black leather as it seems to wear too easily, mine below has grey leather with black headlining and find it is the nicest colour combination.

imo that looks a bit monotone for me , a light burl wood trim instead of the aluminium and it would be perfect , the leathers looking clean though , good job

heate

bazz26 wrote: »

Light coloured leather trim is not an issue, just a rub of a damp cloth and some leather cleaner/restorer and it looks practically brand new. Light coloured carpet/mats on the other hand is a PITA to keep clean especially around the floor area. Getting some dark coloured mats might help.

Cream/beige interior does look the part though but can be high maintenance. I hate black leather as it seems to wear too easily, mine below has grey leather with black headlining and find it is the nicest colour combination.

Well I think the problem with a high maintenance interior is that you spend all of your time with the car inside it looking at all the marks. I have a 7 series and have seen 7's with that sand and dark sand interiors - looks disgusting and shows wear like nothing else.

bazz26

Eric Cartman wrote: »

imo that looks a bit monotone for me , a light burl wood trim instead of the aluminium and it would be perfect , the leathers looking clean though , good job

Wood trim is very rare to find on the M Sport model due to brushed aluminium/carbon fibre being associated with the Sport trim and I much prefer the brushed aluminium anyway.

My old Volvo S40 had wood with grey leather and was ok, it really depends on the car though.

Big Nasty

Cream / Brown leather looks really good and is very easy to maintain. In relation to the mats, black is the hardest colour to keep clean.

Hiace.

MCMLXXV wrote: »

In relation to the mats, black is the hardest colour to keep clean.

He's right; jet black carpets are just as hard to keep on any car.
Mid/dark grey/charcoal is the easiest keep looking clean.

As for a cream interior it depends on the users lifestyle.

Loads of young sticky jammy kids, or an outdoors type job - avoid the cream.

No kids or grown older, or single, and a nice clean office/indoors job - cream is fine, and very nice.