Seat repair

[ccannon19]

Thought I'd check to see if anyone has any ideas as I need to get both my 390se seats sorted out and it is past my capabilities.

Car has sat for around 15 years doing nothing in a damp garage and is currently in the middle of a mechanical resto, chassis out body off type. Seats have come out and are with me currently and the leather is in reasonable condition after I gave it a quick clean, but the wiring underneath which keeps the seat foam in has rusted out almost entirely. Will probably also need to replace the base seat foam on both. Is there anyone who does this service, or potentially could that people know of? Am not overly fussed about getting the leather fully restored until I have the whole car back and all then all the leather stuff can be done at once. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Am Surrey based but not averse to shipping them to someone.

Thanks, Chris.

[adam quantrill]

What do (or did) the seat springs look like? It's one thing I've not had occasion to inspect in all these years...

If they are the zig-zag type springs commonly found under upholstery, you can buy replacements on fleabay.

[ccannon19]

Pretty disgusting as you can see! They’re very thin wires looped into a thin cord which loops through the leather. All rusted out and snapped. Seat foam would fall out if I actually sat on the seats. Way past my ability. :-)

[adam quantrill]

I would say you could do that yourself, get some thinnish galvanised iron wire (the sort from garden centres etc). Spotted a reel for 2 quid on the flea item number 114564883698.

Cut one end of your new wire at an angle to make it nice and sharp.

Then cut out all those rusty crosspieces and thread the wire through, each time you get to the side wrap it round and twist over itself, should last longer than the original.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Auto-Trim will be able to help. 0116 2169920.

[MJG280]

It is a good number of years since I fixed a Tasmin seat. I bought car seat quality foam off ebay and used cable ties instead of the wires.
The foam was thick enough and shaped using an angle grinder with a rough stone cutter blade.

Very comfortable

[nwarner]

Great idea using cable ties

[ccannon19]

Thanks for the help and suggestions! Am going to have a look over them closely and potentially do it myself over Christmas break when I have some free time.

If it all goes wrong I'll send them on to someone!