Randy
Not a hard job, takes about 4 to 6 hours maybe
Mercedessource.com has a good guide for rebuilding seats around $20.00
Good MB Shop forum article which references poly foam material for use in
123 chassis seats (not too different from 115)
http://www.mercedesshop.com/Wikka/W123SeatRepair
I have done two seats each the drive side of two different 123s See if you
can call some of the used MB salvage yards get a good PASSENGER SIDE SEAT
this can be easily reversed for a driver seat. I picked up a very good seat
I mean very good for $100 delivered from a salvage yard. I gave the guy the
official mb tex color and he got it for me. Shipped it without the rail as
I can resuse he existing one.
Regards Tom Scordato
----- Original Message -----
From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:40 PM
Subject: [MBZ] seat repair
I checked with World Upholstery and they want $235 for a horsehair pad to
put into the front seat bottom on my 115.
I know I saw on here somewhere about repadding the seats with foam etc.
Who has done this and how well did it work
out? Am I better off to have a local upholstery shop make me something out
of dense foam or to try to do it myself.
Shaping the foam would be the hard part I guess - after finding something
suitable. I just wonder if something more
modern than the horsehair pad would be as good or better at a lower cost.
I'd have to look more closely but I don't
think the passenger side is really in need yet so I could get away with
just doing the driver's side. I had thought
about doing both until I got the quote. I'm frugal (and poor) so that
isn't to my liking. Two of them would be $470
plus shipping of probably $25 or more plus taxes of 14% (on the value
converted to Cdn $).
Randy B
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