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03-09-2005, 04:44 PM

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My Ride: 2009 550i sports, Nav, logic Best E60 yet 2004 545i, sports pkg, logic 7 steptronic, rear shade,orient blue with beige interior, blue tooth enabled Razer Phone. 2004 X5 3.0, sports pkg, stepronic, summer pkg. imola red. 2006 Mini Cooper S, manual, sports, prem pkg, nav and kitchen sink.

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Originally Posted by Iceman' date='Mar 9 2005, 06:35 PM

[quote name='E60Speed' date='Mar 9 2005, 09:42 PM']When I changed the trim on my E39 I could see it was real woods, as you could see a very small strip of it on the edges of the trim

My E60 doesnt have wood trim, maybe someone with it should remove one piece of trim and check

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Ok ok ok...

Yes, it's real wood. It's very thin, but it's real wood.

The manufacturer is: Dr?xlmaier

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03-10-2005, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by fishskis' date='Mar 9 2005, 03:07 PM

[quote name='igor' date='Mar 9 2005, 12:42 PM'][quote name='pmmeke' date='Mar 9 2005, 01:26 PM']Just a general observation: the fact that nobody on this topic knows if its fake wood of real wood proves that it is well made. Otherwise everybody would know for sure its fake

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On the contarary I was saying from the very beginning it is a CHEAP (fake) wood from a
second class shop. It is a shame for e60.

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I disagree. I like the Poplar wood; I think it looks great.

It is standard practice to use a "veneer", which is a very thin strip of wood, but is by all means real wood. I would be very surprised if BMW did not use real wood.

BTW, "cheap" and "fake" are two distinctly different things. If you do not like the wood, and think it looks "cheap", that is not the same as asserting that it is "fake", which means it is not real wood. BMW says this is wood in all of their literature; do you believe they are not being truthful?

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But they also say RUTHENIUM don't they?

Ok, I must admit that I am not a specialist in the furniture but I try to explain what I
mean. If you go to a shop to buy a desk, you can have it in REAL wood that means made of solid wood panels or in FAKE wood(I call it like this;in German there is a very good word for it - "Nachbildung", unfly I cant find the precise English equivalent for it) where you just have this veneer surface but the base cud be something like compressed shavings or whatever. So BMW e60 wood trim IMHO looks like the second poor option (whatever you call it fake or cheap look).