Upholstery Repair, seats, foam rubber, leather dye

[NavySEAL2B at insightbb.com (GTG)]

I would personally just go with a block of foam and cut it to size.  I saw
on one of those chopper shows on discovery where they built a seat from
scratch with a foam block.  I also saw a step by step how-to on "chop cut
rebuild" on speed channel for replicating old seats.  I think in both they
used an electric carving knife (like for carving turkey) to cut it nice and
smooth.  Not sure where you'd get a foam block like that, but it can't be
too hard to find.

-Grant-



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris" <vze28h54@verizon.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: Upholstery Repair, seats, foam rubber, leather dye


> For those of you who have repaired your seats:
>
> 1.  Did you have to use OEM foam rubber? (I'm thinking specifically about
> the side bolsters. The OEMs are molded into shape.  I had the foam in one
> bolster replaced by a shop and they said they would use a more dense foam.
> This led me to believe that a generic block of foam was used and perhaps
> only needed to be roughly shaped in order to work.)
>
> 2.  If  OEM foam should be used (and I don't think the foam for our cars
is
> still available from VW) did you find foam parts from later year VWs (or
> other cars) that could be substituted (perhaps with some reshaping)?
>
> 3.  Has anyone re-dyed their leather upholstery?  I see a place on the Web
> called World Upholstery  www.worlduph.com advertises an aerosol dye called
> "Classic Leather Dye".  Has anyone used this product and if so how did  it
> work out?  Haas anybody dealt wiht World Upholstery?
>
> 4.  I have also seen leather repair kits advertised that can supposedly
> repair cuts, tears or holes in leather (and supposedly look good) but I
> can't imagine that would actually be the case.  Anybody have any
experience
> with them?  My guess is that the only way to really repair a torn leather
> panel is to replace the panel.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
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