Re: Seat upholstery

[John Karasaki <johkar@teleport.com>]

To bad none of that material is available on this side (USA) of the pond...


At 10:37 PM 12/22/98 -0000, Jim Haseltine wrote:
>Back at the start of the summer I managed to find a wrecked 20V Ur quattro
>and salvage the half-leather interior. It wasn't in too bad a condition
>considering that it had been exposed to the elements for a few months
>although some of the cloth was damaged (if people _have_ to smoke in a car
>why cant they put their cigarettes in the ashtray?), but I figured that I
>could live with it. Then, later this year it was mentioned in the UK owners
>club newsletter that a firm has a supply of this cloth. I believe that Phil
>Payne posted the firms' name and address on the list at about the same time.
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>Anyway, I dont need much prompting so I contacted them. AVA Leisure have
>replaced all the "quattro" woven logo cloth panels and supplied sufficient
>of the plain striped cloth to allow me to have the door panels retrimed to
>match. A truly excellent job - the seats now look so much better that if it
>wasn't for some recognisable marks on the leather I wouldn't think that they
>were the same set. Turnround was rapid too, I despatched the seats on a
>Thursday and the job was completed the following Tuesday.
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>I have got one problem though. The seats look so good that they make the
>rest of my look rather tatty, so now I've got to get on and sort out the
>bodywork.....
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>Jim Haseltine.
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>>      AVA Leisure
>>      Forge Wood Industrial Estate
>>      Gatwick Road
>>      Crawley
>>      West Sussex
>>      RH10 2PG
>>      +44 1293 442830
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Best Regards,

John Karasaki
Portland, OR