jdistefa

This guy is a retired doc?
Makes you wonder if he was encouraged to 'retire'...? An ******* like that should never have been practicing medicine.

FlatSix911

He sounds like a tool - beware that the leather doctor also has a poor feedback record on ebay:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...userid=aglausa

MarkD

Thanks to Andreas and Tom for sharing their experiences with this guy. I know posting this kind of thing is a touchy proposition.

He is not only a pathetic businessman but a disgusting human being. Calling someone "cancer boy"? What a loser.

Land Jet

Yea, I couldn't agree more. Pathetic.

Air Kuul TT

Tom,

I'm sorry to hear that you had to deal with this a-hole. And thanks to you and Andreas for bringing the issues to light. I believe atan888 had his SW recovered with Alcantara for his SY C4S... you might to PM him... perhaps you can get your SW done properly.

md11plt

Thanks, Tony, but the point is moo (I know it's mute , but that cracks me up). This happened just as I found out I was sick, so I had to get a replacement wheel and I sold the car. Selling it was painful at the time, but I'm better now and I just love the turbo. Everything the 997 was not, and should be

RallyJon

moot

pcar964

+1

md11plt

I know, Jon, just trying to have some fun

vivaleduc

I just spoke to the guy about doing a wheel for me and came here looking for ideas on steering wheels...ran into this thread...I almost puked on my keyboard when I read about the cancer comments. Unbelievable

SKM

Continuing on the original postings about the leather air bag having a smoother grain than the vinyl air bag and how the steering wheel typically has more grain to the leather, I have noticed that as well.

I have a new leather air bag with the smooth grain and I am looking for a three spoke steering wheel to go with it. My experience is the same as the early posts to this thread that the leather three-spoke 996 986 etc. steering wheel has alot of grain in it when compared to the air bag leather.

However, I have seen smooth leather steering wheels occasionally where the leather is essentially as smooth as the original 993 steering wheel was. The smooth leather wheel matches the smooth leather airbag well. Does any one know which models or options of Boxsters, 996s, GT3, GT2, etc. had the smooth leather wheel and/or air bag?

SKM

Ok, using the search function, found a Rennlister photo of the smooth leather steering wheel and the leather airbag. So there appear to be two types of three-spoke wheel leather - smooth and with grain.

kdeaton

Here is my experience, for what it's worth...

Sent my wheel to this joker in December. Did not get it back for 4 and a half months. When it came back, it was the most awful thing you could lay eyes on. I so wish I had pictures, but I called him from my mechanic's shop, where it was delivered, and he told me to pack it back up, and he would have FedEx pick it up, to make it right. After many calls, he sent it back out, and this is the result. Believe it or not, this is the 'New & Improved' version. Straight out of the shipping container. It is awful leather, very poorly stitched, lumpy, and he left glue slopped on the spokes. I just hope it will clean off. Anyway, trying to call him to get my steering wheel, 90% of the time I just got voicemail, which he NEVER called back, and when I did reach him, I got the sorriest excuses. Which all would have been water under the bridge had I received a decent product at the end. How someone stays in business with his lack of customer service, and beyond poor workmanship, is beyond me. Just hope this gets around, and people don't have to learn by the same mistake I did, to the tune of $350.

BTW, it's the wheel for a 1957 Benz 190SL.

debo2k3

OMG, horrible leather color and stitching...and everything.

AOW162435

Very sorry to see that!

He is, as I've thoroughly shown on recent threads, a complete and utter jackass. He should be ashamed of himself.


Andreas