I was wondering if anyone has tried to recover their original seats..either with the premade covers or thier own. Since I havent found the seats I eventually want in the car and the covers on ebay were like $500, I decided to sew up a temp solution. I borrowed a sewing machine for the weekend, but never having used one I wasted a bunch of time figuring out how to thread it and what all the buttons do etc. and so wasn't able to finish before giving it back. That's why there are still some saggy parts but overall I'd say its an improvement.


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I'm curious how other's have turned out so post pics if you have some, thanks.

 

that's a quantum leap from what you had before

 

Yea looks a hella lot better to me!! let me see if i can dig up some pics of my seats. I dont think I have any befores, but I deff got afters!

 

holy **** dude thats pretty damn good for not using a sew machine before ..you should teach me how hahaha

 

edit:great job man looks amazing

 

Damn fine job for a first attept. I suspect some of the wrinkling is due to the foam not filling the covers out as much as the original foam did. For the seats to look right, the foam and covers need to be nearly exact as the originals, otherwise they can take a bit of tweaking to snug up.

I bailed on redoing the seats on a Z I have been working for a couple of years, labor only was 450 for the 2 seats, they are much more complicated than the 7 seats. When I find the fabric I want for the widebody, I will be redoing mine myself, the 1st gen seats are a good starter seat for the inexperienced.

 

howcome all RX interiors turn to ****, is it just the kind of people who tended to have owned them in the past?

 

holly **** nice job, want material did you use?
You could also swap seats from a 2nd gen or miata if wanted a cheap upgrade

 

Don't suppose you made patterns for those badboys? Looks like it'd be worth trying, but I need my seats for driving and such, can't really take them out

 

No Joke! A pattern would be AWESOME. I think they turned out pretty good - 1000x's better than what you had before. I'm also re-upholstering my interior... so if I could use your pattern I'd be in heaven!

 

Not sure what the material is called, it was labled "GTRMN UPHOLS" and was $15 per yard and it was about 1.5 yards for one seat.



I put some soft cottony stuff I found laying around under the center sections too. The regular vinyl stuff was only $6 but didnt stretch as much which may have been better since the first time I put it on it was really loose and I had to go back and sew everything closer:




You mean like this?

 

Damn thats nice. Good work

 

Wow, you did a fantastic job for your first attempt!
Local upholsterer quoted 250 - 300 per seat. If you do it again with some contrasting colors/materials, that might look even sharper.