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 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:30 pm |
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Location: East Sussex
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As some may know, i recently got some recaro seats out of an Evo 4 with the intention of retriming them in some thick lush quality leather.
so, what colour should i go for? (two more shades of tan to be added when the samples arrive) - the red is actuly really nice in the flesh, not in your face at all.
i thought i'd do a little post of my progress so far.
Jobs Done:
Striping chairs down
Leather Supplier and samples sourced.
Industrial Sewing machine aquired and set up.
Jobs To Do:
Replace broken side bolster foam
Order Leather Hides
Make templates
Cut & Sew
Fit and admire.
Stripping Down Pics:
seat bottom
seat foam out
lower seat frame
worn seat bolster
tilts and hinge bits
top half
cover off - still cant get the sodding harness guides out!
pile of foam
pile of covers
and thats the progress so far untill pay day.
after ive done this, im thinking of offering my services to info members who are interested in a retrim on the cheap (labour wise). i know there's a few guys who were interested so let me know if its something you'd like.
comments welcome!
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Last edited by Lowercase on Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:45 am; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:42 pm |
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Joined: Sep 12, 2010
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Location: Manchester
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tan with red centre  or other way round, both would look simply divine darling
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:57 pm |
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Location: East Sussex
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:58 pm |
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Joined: Sep 12, 2010
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Location: Manchester
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black and tan! lightest tan you can though that looks lush!
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:21 pm |
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Location: East Sussex
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jdm style inserts?
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:28 pm |
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Joined: Feb 23, 2011
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Location: Birmingham
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Is that an Octavia VRs leather seats? They look nice.
Fabia VRs cloth interior is horrid, leathers are rare for the fabia
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:42 pm |
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| DanPug206 wrote: |
Is that an Octavia VRs leather seats? They look nice.
Fabia VRs cloth interior is horrid, leathers are rare for the fabia |
yea mate. good inspiration for a retrim. though im siding against light tan as just the little sample patch i have got dirty within a day.
so im siding with the red or black at the moment.
the idea is to trim them in such a way that i can put them into any car i buy and they wont look out of place.
thats the plan anyway, but im im going through this effort, i may aswell make them a bit special aye?
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:38 am |
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Joined: Feb 09, 2010
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Location: KENT
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What you going to do about the warn seat foam?
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:14 am |
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Location: East Sussex
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thankfully recaro sell replacement parts for most of their chairs and components. so the bolster foam will be replaced.
and them in gunna put a covering of duct tape on the lowers to help keep them together over time.
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:36 am |
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had an interesting evening last night, in what was a truly a**e clenching 20 minutes when i took a sharp blade to the foam of the recaro's! but after a whole lot of swearing and sweating i managed to get the harness guides free and re glued the foam, good as new thankfully.
just got to reserch my sewing machine a bit more at the moment to see if it can handle the leather, otherwise ill be picking up an old heavy duty semi industrial model off ebay for the £100 mark.
colour wise, developments made. got a full 3 booklets of samples from the suppliers and found a really lush off black browny grey colour that i think im gunna go for with anthracite centres. something a bit different.
will post some more pics soon of progress
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:13 am |
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Joined: Mar 03, 2010
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Location: Black Country Ay I
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Interesting project, will you be doing the back seats and door inserts to match?
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:24 am |
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these will be going into a new gti ill be buying later in the year.
the gti will be stripped of:
sound deadening.
rear seats.
radio and speakers
A/C
Airbags
and plans for the rest of the interior:
-Centre console blanking on air vents and radio and smoothed.
-dashboard smoothed of the gap over the passenger airbag and air vents (keeping the one to demist the windscreen) then wrapped in leather.
- lower centre console smoothed of all uneeded bits and trimmed in leather.
- front door cards: keeping the bit along the top with the door handle, and ill be smoothing the rest flat, using a thin line around the perimiter of the origional trim so i can use the origional fitting clips. and then trimmed in leather to match
- will do a really simple smoothing and leather covering of rear door cards too.
will look nice i think, certainly does in my head.
stripped to the bare essentials, but, with nice presentation. is what im going for
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:34 am |
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Location: East Sussex
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gunna get an old momo steering wheel too and refurb the metal and recover the leather. always wanted one of them.
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2000 Saxo VTS MKII - Silver - For Sale | |
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:43 pm |
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Location: East Sussex
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got me a retro semi industrial sewing machine for a steal of a price of £92. comes fully serviced, refurbished motor and a pack of new heavy duty needles ready to go.
isnt it a beauty... really powerful, can sail through 5.5mm of leather so will handle the job no problem! 
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:56 am |
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Location: East Sussex
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so, now the machines here, i started to set up a work space, and started making a surface to sit flush around the platform on the machine. so out came the mdf and a jigsaw cutter. removed all the edges joined it together and soon it will be covered in some cheap leatherette so the fabrics will be easier to slide around.
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and i was playing around on microsoft paint (because im technical me) and came up with a black and green scheme that i think im gunna go with as its different, and i like green. ill use green stitching on the black too probably.
what you think? all leather, quilted inserts. door cards, black leather top, green piping, dark grey alcantara pannel.
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Last edited by Lowercase on Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:20 pm; edited 1 time in total
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