I asked for some advice a week or two back on repair of the seats in my 76 300D
- and then didn't really follow the
advice given. We shall see how my version holds up.
I pulled the driver's seat out and removed the cover on the seat part. The
horsehair pad was, as expected, pretty
much
of the remains
of my old seat.
Randy B
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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:18 PM
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Any upholstery shop should be able to fix MB-Tex passably
Egg-crate sleeping bag mat is the way to go. I also used a thin
closed-cell foam pad under the two layers of egg-crate on the rear seat
of my brother's 75 300D. Get them at Target or K-Mart, the ones at
Wally World are too cheesy.
Cut to fit just larger than the springs with the points up,
I finally hauled the driver's seat out of my 76 300D last night and partially
dismantled it. The spring base seems
intact but has quite a bit of surface rust on it. I assume it had no paint of
any sort from the factory and this is
just the result of 30 year's exposure to humidity etc. Horsehair
Go to Meijer or Wal-Mart and buy a twin bed-size egg-crate mattress pad.
The size happens to be -exactly- the right size for restuffing a 115 seat.
One pad should be enough to restuff both passenger seats and the bench seat
in the back (but you'll be out of foam before you redo the rear seat
: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Seat repair again
Go to Meijer or Wal-Mart and buy a twin bed-size egg-crate mattress pad.
The size happens to be -exactly- the right size for restuffing a 115 seat.
One pad should be enough to restuff both passenger seats and the bench
seat
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I finally hauled the driver's seat out of my 76 300D last night
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I finally hauled the driver's seat out of my 76 300D last night and
partially dismantled it. The spring base seems
intact but has quite a bit of surface
Of andrew strasfogel
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Randy, what's wrong with ordering an OEM pad from Rusty? Are they that
expensive? Yours is a great looking W115 300D so why do something
un-original when fixing it?
On 6/1/06
: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:23 PM
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Randy, what's wrong with ordering an OEM pad from Rusty? Are they that
expensive? Yours is a great looking W115 300D so why do something
un-original when fixing it?
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Rory wrote:
I too, enjoy the smell of the horsehair seat pads. It is a smell that
evokes many memories, dad's Jags, Mom's Saab ('65 Model 96) and of course
the 5 Benz's I've owned. It's the smell of Quality!
It seems to be an essential part of the old VW smell, too.
David Brodbeck
'83 300D
, do you think the real thing is better than an update??
Randy B
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I have the OE
to ask for a price.
So, do you think the real thing is better than an update??
Randy B
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I have
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
Good used? That's what I tend to do.
-- Jim
Right on, Alex! Gotta have that well-aged horsehair smell, or as I call it,
the MB smell (didn't know about horsehair then).
Kevin in Hillsboro Oregon
1973 220D still here
for over 30 Years.
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Hey that sounds a bit better. Didn't know you had stuff like that.
Someone on one
2006 18:00:55 -0500
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I have the OE Genuine MB horsehair for $164.00. Why did you cal World
Upholstery?
Rusty
the business.
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 15K
Litchfield Park, AZ
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Speaking of which mine came in yesterday and is really nice. Tonight I'll
On Mar 17, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
Speaking of which mine came in yesterday and is really nice.
Tonight I'll pull the drivers seat in my 190D. Hopefully by Monday
morning I'll have it all back together. ;)
I bought the seat repair book from Mercedes Source, not one of his
On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Bob Rentfro wrote:
Speaking of seats, how much should I expect to pay for a good
palomino rear
seatback? The top of mine has erupted along the top perpendicular
to all the
stiching.
I'm going to call TriStar here in town and see what they
have...eventhough I
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Bob
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On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Bob Rentfro wrote:
Speaking of seats, how
Speaking of seats, how much should I expect to pay for a good palomino
rear
seatback? The top of mine has erupted along the top perpendicular to
all the
stiching.
There's one now at the U-Pull, or was when I was there two days ago,
I think it's $20. For that you get the bench and the back.
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
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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
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I have the OE Genuine MB horsehair for $164.00. Why did you cal World
Upholstery?
Rusty Cullens
BuyMBparts, Inc.
1-800-741-5252
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I have the OE Genuine MB horsehair for $164.00. Why did you cal World
Upholstery?
Rusty Cullens
BuyMBparts, Inc.
1-800-741-5252
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, March 16, 2006 5:32 PM
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I got a large piece of that memory foam from Meijer (like Wal-Mart, but
Midwest) that tops mattresses, cut it to fit, and used that in my 115 when I
redid those seats. Got rid of all the horsehair and the smell
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I got a large piece of that memory foam from Meijer (like Wal-Mart, but
Midwest) that tops mattresses, cut it to fit, and used that in my 115 when
I
redid those seats. Got rid of all the horsehair and the smell went away
too.
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
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