Crappy 18yr old seats

[David]

For used seats, I highly recomend the Recaro Trophy seats found in the VW jetta GLi and Golf GTi (Mk II). I love mine and get compliments on both looks and comfort all the time. It only took a little modding to get them to fit my CGT.

Dave
1987 CGT 2.3
SE VA
> 
> From: Mark R <speedracer.mark at gmail.com>
> Date: 2005/07/29 Fri PM 05:18:36 EDT
> To: "barry at moonbeast.com" <barry at moonbeast.com>
> CC: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Crappy 18yr old seats
> 
> 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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