Re: repairing leather seats

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

Are you saying that the leather cover on the seat bottom is 3-piece? I know 
that the bolsters are separate from the centre section padding but I'm 
pretty sure that the cover is all one piece. Finding another seat to swap 
parts from isn't really an option for me - you hardly ever see leather seats 
in the breakers yards near me and I have beige leather, which is even rarer.
I've no problem about replacing the bolsters, it's just i'm not sure how 
easy it will be to unstitch & replace the individual squares of leather. 
Have you done that at all or just swapped complete covers?

Ewan Hopkins.

>From: thescirocco@juno.com
>To: ewanhopkins@hotmail.com
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: repairing leather seats
>Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:20:20 -0400
>
>On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:57:50 GMT "Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>
>writes:
> > Any of you guys out there tried repairing leather seats? Several
> > parts of my driver seat leather are cracked/worn and I have some spare
>leather > I could use to replace the worn parts.  I was thinking of
>replacing complete
> > damaged sections, so how easy is is to remove & replace the side
>bolster
> > panels ( bottom & seat back) and also some of the seat bottom panels?
>Do I
> > have to undo lots more stitching besides just that for each piece I
>want to
> > replace?
>
>The bottom bolsters swap right out, you just separate the seat back from
>the seat bottom, remove the bottom pad, and then you can swap the bottom
>seqat bolsters.
>
>When it comes to the seat back, you need to do some stitching...
>
>I usually get another passenger seat back and use that on the driver's
>side.
>
>Peter
>'79 Scirocco 16V project car, 2 black leather passenger seats
>'84 Scirocco 2.0L, 2 gray leather seats
>'83 GTI, stock seats with a center pad made from the rear seat material
>'80 Scirocco, '88 Scirocco 16V, '86 GLi for parts
>
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