New Carpeting | Resale Value | Change of Color

[MS616]

Hello Dear Friends,

I wish you are all wonderful this fine day. As part of my restoration, I'm re-carpeting this wonderful piece of art. I have a Signal Red Exterior with Full Black Interior and Cream Carpet per data card and what's inside vehicle. Looking at some Photos, I'd love to match the cream carpet to the all black interior. Will this have any negative effects on the future resale of the vehicle? Do you suggest I re-carpet the to match the original data card and what came with the car? Attached For Reference is my Vehicle and another Signal Red with Full Black Carpets.

Thanks,

[Tyler S]

That all depends on what you are planning to do with the car. Keep and drive it or sell it? If you are keeping it then by all means make it your own and yourself happy with the changes you like.
Unless you are planning on advertising it as a concourse restoration then carpet color won’t really have an impact on sale price. Especially if its in the future and the carpet is no longer new.

[114015]

Hello Mehdi,

Can't see any creme on your pictures.
280 SLs (I assume yours is a 280 SL) never came with creme carpets along with black interior.


If your data cards says black interior (either 131 or 240 in field "8 Ausstattung") then you should either have a dark brown carpet or a two-tone black and light-grey pepper-and-salt carpet, both DB Tufting.
Your 2nd picture looks barely correct for a late 280 SL, a bit faded perhaps.

So yours (assume the car on the second pic is yours) is mostly correct.
I would not recommend changing that - or if so (if more faded than it looks on the pic) I would try to find the exact colored carpet again.
I cannot fully agree with Typler here ... it is instead highly recommended to keep it mostly original, at least with visual things. That will have a large influence on your sales prices when you sell your car in a few years.
Don't know where you saw anything "creme" on your datacard...
Only thing that is supposed to be "creme" (i.e. light-grey to be correct) are or shoud be your sun visors.

Just my 2 cents ...

Achim

[john.mancini]

I could not agree more with Achim. The black interior trim with the contrasting "Salt and Pepper" carpets is very attractive. Much more attractive, IMHO, than black on black. Since your car is very original, I would keep the interior appearance that way too.