New seats or restore the leather ?

Porsche · 4 Jul 2004

the only downside (so far !) of my forthcoming 993 is that the front seats are showing the age of the 140k kms the car has driven !

options... get a new (prob' too much ) or good condition used sets .. but from where ?

or renovate the leather.. but with what.... ? (the drivers sides are very worn, bit of white showing ! and it's pretty much crease city everywhere else !)

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James Ball · 5 Jul 2004

What about getting Southbound to re-trim and possibly restuff them. Should work out a lot cheaper than buying new or even used. Do a search on the forum for their contact details.

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Porsche · 5 Jul 2004

cheers i'll give 'em a call...

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Shed17 · 25 Jul 2004

I know someone who has just had his car seats recovered by Southbound at a cost of £1000. Fantastic job but expensive.

You would be able to pick up new seats from some of the specialist breakers or alternatively have you seats re-connolised. I have gone done the latter route in the past and as long as you get a quality company to do it the results are great.

William

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Wooly · 25 Jul 2004

Sundeep

Check this out on ebay - more that just black seats but may be of interest to you depending on the condition of the rest of the interior.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10408&item=2485135627&rd=1

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Porsche · 28 Jul 2004

cheers but a tad too expensive as there were a set for £450 only last week !

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Neill Hammond · 18 Aug 2004

here is a great page about sorting out your Porsche seats:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/warmfuzzies/Seats/Driven_by_the%20_seat_of_your_pants.htm

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Pickled Piper · 19 Aug 2004

Sundeep, I don't know a great deal about Porsches yet but I do know about leather seats.

Unless you have got a large number of tears, then I would have the leather dyed and retreated. Sometimes called Connolising. This will restore the abraded areas on the bolster to a new condition. Remember the leather has been dyed already (it's not that colour on the cow).

If you do have the seats recovered you will pay a lot of money to get them looking as good as the original OE seat covers.

PP

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