Crappy 18yr old seats
Mark R
speedracer.mark at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 17:18:44 EDT 2005
The least expensive is used. But if your frames are in good
condition, a good upholstery shop can replace the foam and make you
new covers (installed) out of any material you like, using your
existing units as patterns. Sometimes you can find decent hides
inexpensively that aren't big enough to do the entire seat but big
enough to do all of the bolstering. Then do alternating color or
alcantera for inserts.
I've sold some alcantera for just this purpose with older vehciles.
Always worked out really nicely, especially if you can find some
decent leather hides inexpensively.
Mark Rosenkrantz
On 7/29/05, barry at moonbeast.com <barry at moonbeast.com> wrote:
> The seats in my car are one of the remaining few items that really, really need
> addressing.
>
> They are the electric beige leather heated seats, with the usual seam
> splitting, hardening, and cracking. The passenger seat is just hard with split
> seams, and the driver's seatback is the same way. The seat itself though is
> pretty badly trashed.
>
> So I'm looking for a cost-effective way of getting decent seats back into the
> car-- seats with the same adjustment and heating features, that will look
> nice. Just nice, they don't have to look OEM exactly.
>
> I'm interested in how other list members have solved this problem, or
> suggestions on how to approach it-- I haven't been able to locate any
> replacements of that vintage in decent shape.
>
> TIA!
> =BB=
>
> '87 5kcstq
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