Re: Seat R&R

[Alex Rosser <lxrosser@necro.ugcs.caltech.edu>]

In message <6959@isham-research.demon.co.uk>you write:
> Yup - four others have given me much the same reply.

That's what happens when I don't read e-mail for a couple of days... I get
behind.
 
> But - why weren't they used first time around?  Does the upholstery
> industry not know about them?  I can see the great convenience of zip
> ties (which we call cable ties) but is there really going to be another
> 150k of durability?

I'm making a guess here... When the seat is first built the advantage of hog
rings would be that they make their own holes in the seat material when
they're installed(as I'm sure you noticed, those things are *sharp*). One
step: Install the hog ring. To use zip ties they'd need to do two steps:
Punch the holes in the seat material, then install the zip tie. 
When you do the R&R, you've already got the holes punched. 

I'd expect the zip tie will outlast whatever you opened up the seat to fix...
and that's all that really matters, no?
 
> A pox on concourses, BTW.  I drove a concourse winner at Chatsworth
> last year - the engine ran like a dog and it wasn't properly aligned.
> Wrong priorities for me.

You mean you don't think cleaning your car is more fun than driving it?
You want to get a real antipathy for concours people? Try buying a high
milage 911 for use as an autocross platform. It's fun explaining to people
you'd pay the 75% price premium they're asking for their garage queen, but
you plan to put on 15K+ miles a year and gut the interior.

-Alex
 1971 Volvo 142E		1994 Volvo 944T
 1987 Porsche 911 Targa		1986 Audi 4000cs Quattro