Author Topic: Dye for MB Tex ?  (Read 17880 times)

DavidAPease

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Re: Dye for MB Tex ?
« Reply #25 on: February 22, 2021, 21:47:42 »
Hi, Francis,

The 3-digit upholstery codes are a sort of short-hand for a set of interior specifications.  They tell you whether the interior was trimmed in MB-Tex (1xx) or leather (2xx), and also the color of both the seats/trim and the carpet.

If you look at this page:

https://palmbeachclassics.com/upholstery-codes/

you can see that codes 132 (MB-Tex) and 242 (leather) both indicate the same red color seats (red 3000), as well as the same red carpet (red 3004).

Hope this helps make some sense of the numbers.

          -David
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Re: Dye for MB Tex ?
« Reply #26 on: February 23, 2021, 10:56:10 »
That’s funny David.  Our own Tech Manual has the same information with same photos etc.  We did not copy ours from the Palm Beach web site. mmmmmm. Just saying.
 At least they acknowledged where it came from even if they did not seek approval to do so.




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