I thought I would post a picture of what one of my R&R'd seats looks like. After a lot of thought, posting around, reading around, calling, and conversation about getting some life back into my seats, I finally was able to find a shop that gave me an answer I was happy with.

The pleats were almost entirely worn in these seats. Additionally the piping was fraying and a nice coat of dye did them well. My local interior shop remade the center perforated pleated panels and re-used all of the old foam.

Many folks just told me to pack up my seats and get them off to one of the experts, which I thought was a little expensive for what they actually needed. It was not seeming to be the right option for me and my car. We saved a good amount of leather material on these seats. There was no need to throw the old covers and foam away.

In doing what I described to both seats, in addition to re-dying the rear seats and reattaching the driver side rear seat (it had come loose for whatever reason), reinstalling my center console, tightening my door panels up, making a new shift boot, re-covering the armrest cover, and giving the steering wheel a little dye to even out the color, I will have spent around $2000 and my interior will be a 9/10 interior. The large extra cost to get 10/10 is better spent elsewhere!

With time, persistence, dedication, and knowing how to talk to someone that you want to do your repairs, you can make it happen for a good price. Our 928's don't always have to empty the bank account.

I think they look beautiful.

 

Looks great.

 

Beautiful.
Great job.

 

Good job .

 

I want ? I can has them?

 

As the VIR Track Instructor calmly said as the car was about to spin off the track.

"Good recovery".

 

Hi Royal,

Looks really great. Is everything installed? Any pictures of the rest of the interior?

 

Too bad all the stitching is pulled out of the seat base...mine is too. People that don't know what they are supposed to look like say "but what is wrong with the seats?". I know what is wrong because I know what they looked like when they were new.

 

I think it's a great recovery too!

Also, the lighting is poor; the bottom of the seat is more pleated than it actually looks. It is very, very close to the original. The substantial added cost to make it 100% as opposed to 99% is not worth the nominal benefit. I will have a very, very nice 8.5/10 car when I'm done with it, at a reasonable price, not a 9.5/10 driver at a broken bank price. My next 928 can be a GTS with low mileage...

Not quite yet, Bob. I should have the car back in four or five days with everything installed. Definitely on the downhill slide of things.

 

What is important is that you like them, few of us can afford to meet everybody else's taste.

 

Those came out great! Nice work.

 

Sadly that seat is not "****" at all (depending, perhaps, on one's sexual desires), but is in fact one of the worst jobs of fabricating the Porsche 928 seat inserts that I have seen. When you say that they pretty much match the originals, I assure you that that is only true in respect to the originals after they have shrunk and deformed after decades of sunshine, moisture and lack of leather care that your's and most others likely have suffered, and not original as with when the car was new. It saddens me to learn that you have paid most of $2000 for that kind of workmanship. All you have now is seats with the used up worn out look, but in new leather. The lines of the perforations in the new leather used do not even line up with the inserts.

However, if you are happy with them, then I guess all is good.

 

hahahahahahaha No good deed goes unpunished here on Rennlist !!!!!!

 

Your seats are perfect. You show them off in your avatar and you are proud of them, I am happy for you. Mine are not yours and I'm not playing them off to be.

Nowhere did I say these were perfect or the best. I did say they were close to the original which I will stand by.

Furthermore, I decided to replace only the pleats/inserts and re-dye most of the seats.

I did say that I thought I got a lot for what I paid---in addition to a bunch of other things done to my interior. This price was not only seats.

The response I have gotten here and elsewhere is mainly positive and FYI FWIW, I have brought attention to the bottom of the seat to the shop I took it to. The bottoms look great in person, not as good in photos, and the foam/pleat on the forward most bottom pleat, I have decided needs to be redone. They have agreed to rebuild that section.

If you're trying to drive me away from what I have generally found to be one of the most welcoming internet automotive communities that I've come across yet, then you're doing a great job.

This car isn't a 15k original mile OB. It's a gray market European that I've decided to put back together. I own other cars and a business to run too. Would you have rather I not be doing this overall, at all? I have other vehicles. Questioning my spendthrift? Be happy to show you photos of any of them and what I've tended to and put back together.

Way to welcome a nascent member that's trying to learn to the community.

Thanks, buddy.

 

No, my seats are not perfect. I am not the rennlist recruiter, but merely one of the participants in what is commonly known as a FORUM. When you post something that insults the intelligence of any of us I guess you let yourself open for any suggestion about what you are posting.