Introduction & Product Development for Interior Upholstery!!
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Austin, you've been a HUGE help to my build. I picked out the materials from what you sent me (free by the way, THANK YOU!) and will get to that once the fabrication (he's lagging bad on this) and wiring (uhh, scary, that's my work), is all done.
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The other factor you have is that alcantara has different characteristics than the OE materials you see used on most racing seats. The OE materials are very thin, which allows them to stretch very well and avoid wrinkles while also not putting a ton of tension on the velcro attachment points. This is also the reason that it wears out quickly and also fades significantly. The alcantara is an upgrade in material quality, with the slight trade off in work ability compared to OE.
These seat covers also require assembly in the proper sequence in order to minimize wrinkles. We have installed covers and seen customers use other professional shops to install with great results. We have also seen covers that show a little more wrinkles because they were done by the customer or a shop with less experience. So, that is a variable that comes into play also.
Our patterns are designed for the use of the alcantara material specifically. We modified the OE patterns in order account for the material changes in certain areas. This is also the reason we have not done a set in leather yet, though we have had the request. It would take further patterning and changes in order to account for the differences in the material work ability to generate a set of covers that would install with minimal wrinkles in leather.
Hopefully that answers your question.
Thanks,
Austin
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Austin, great response, I'm wondering if you plan to do a video tutorial on how to install these seat covers properly or with your experience and knowledge? Reason I ask is that I'm located in Australia so can't bring my seats to you, but would like to buy a set of covers in future.
I plan to install the covers myself, but a little worried I might damage something in the process.
I plan to install the covers myself, but a little worried I might damage something in the process.
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Austin, great response, I'm wondering if you plan to do a video tutorial on how to install these seat covers properly or with your experience and knowledge? Reason I ask is that I'm located in Australia so can't bring my seats to you, but would like to buy a set of covers in future.
I plan to install the covers myself, but a little worried I might damage something in the process.
I plan to install the covers myself, but a little worried I might damage something in the process.
-Austin
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Austin, I am also in southern CA 93551 and interested in R1 (black alcantara/suede) seat covers. Maybe two pair will help with pricing? Thanks.
#112
Kits?
price for a set for fd3s seats? not the recaro once..
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shipped to Norway
I hope to get the thread going early next week for the group buy. Pricing will be finalized in that thread.
Yes, we can make a kit that a customer can install themselves.
Most of the materials we use are actually not flame retardant. The type of alcantara we use is not. You are correct though, alcantara is available in a flame retardant version which is used heavily in aviation applications. The foam we use is not either. Again, we do have access to flame retandent versions of our foam, it is just triple the cost.
Thanks,
Austin
Yes, we can make a kit that a customer can install themselves.
Most of the materials we use are actually not flame retardant. The type of alcantara we use is not. You are correct though, alcantara is available in a flame retardant version which is used heavily in aviation applications. The foam we use is not either. Again, we do have access to flame retandent versions of our foam, it is just triple the cost.
Thanks,
Austin
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Alright guys, this has been a long needed post, we were just waiting until everything was finalized. At the end of this year, we will be closing ESH Upholstering. My brother, who is the other owner and I will be making a transition into another business, still in the automotive field. We still plan to produce the products that we make which includes the RZ recaro covers, non bose privacy covers, and non bose trunk carpets. We will not be doing custom orders for anything else from here on out though. Eventually, if time allows, we will offer some of these services again. But, this will not be the primary focus of our efforts moving forward. We will remain a vendor and continue to offer our limited services here on the forums.
If you need any of the products we offer, feel free to contact us through the forums here or also you will see them on Ebay. We appreciate the support over the past few years and look forward to helping out as we can with members interior projects in the future!
Thanks,
Austin
If you need any of the products we offer, feel free to contact us through the forums here or also you will see them on Ebay. We appreciate the support over the past few years and look forward to helping out as we can with members interior projects in the future!
Thanks,
Austin
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