Upholstery Repair, seats, foam rubber, leather dye

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That is probably possible but difficult, those foam pieces have deep grooves cut in them where they fit over the steel pipe frame.

John K. Gates
--
'97 Jetta GLX - daily driver
'85 Scirocco Flash Silver, waiting for my new house/shop for a complete
teardown/buildup sometime soon...

----- Original Message -----
From: GTG <NavySEAL2B@insightbb.com>
Date: Monday, August 2, 2004 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: Upholstery Repair, seats,  foam rubber, leather dye

> 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 
> fromscratch 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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