About five years ago I redid my seats with new foams and covers from Rimmer Bros. I believe they were actually made by a firm called Newton Commercial in England.
The covers were fine, and the seat back foams were pretty good (essentially the same construction as the originals), but the seat base foams were not so nice. The original seat base foams were molded latex, which is a high-quality material, and expensive to reproduce. The repro bases were made of common polyurethane foam that was shaped properly, but not nearly firm enough. They don't provide a real "bucket seat" feel, and going around corners I feel like my a** is going to slide off the seat, as if I was sitting in an office chair. If I could find better-made seat base foams, I would buy them and re-do the seat bases. I don't know if an upholstery shop could make up a set from scratch. They have a complex shape, and if the foam is shaped wrong, the seats would definitely look funny. Doug Braun '72 Spit --- Kevin Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > End of last season, the driver's seat frame finally > broke under my > excess girth, so I had to pull the upholstery off. I > redid the seats > with new everything about 10 years ago, using > materials from Victoria > British. I was never particularly happy with the > quality of the > materials, and taking the seat apart has pretty well > made me decide > that it is time to do it over again - the seat foams > are in a pretty > terrible state, and the cardboard parts of the seat > covers have > disintegrated. Does anyone have any opinions as to > who has the best > quality foams and covers? Or do all the places > pretty much sell the > same stuff and just get it where it is cheapest/most > convenient? > Given the crummy quality and ridiculous price of the > foams, I am > tempted to try making my own from bulk foam. > > Luckily, I still had the driver's seat from the > Spitfire I parted out > years ago, so that went in for the time being. Not > great, but the > worst of it is hidden with the top down. And my butt > covers the rest! > > Lastly, I really need a new tonneau cover. Is it > really necessary to > get the one with headrest pockets that is listed for > my car? I have > '74 seats with the tiny headrests that don't even go > up into them. > Seems like a flat one would be tidier, and they are > a bit cheaper. > > Hard to believe, but I bought Freddy 12 years ago > this July, on my > birthday. One of us is getting old.... ;-) > > Kevin Rhodes > Westbrook, Maine > _______________________________________________ > > Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html > > [email protected] > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires > > http://www.team.net/archive _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
