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This will be intriguing to see what gets posted.
On the vein of lower cost when my wife bought her last car ( not a Porsche) the dealer had the almost ideal car in forecourt new without wait cancelled order but it didn't have the seats she wanted.
Haggling we bought the car well and I promised to sort seats to her wishes. Found an interesting place whose day job was bespoke classic retrim on high end classics but had a sideline to trim cars based on outsourcing the actual fabrication of all interior to low cost country but they provided the removal /fitting with their craft skills. Craft skills used on Surrey commuter belt Cassics old Ferrari etc deployed on less exotic cars.
Results were good. Doubt I'd use them if my 73 car needed seats over proven like Southbound but given that 911 are not that rare and presumably original seat built by OEM suppliers as production process back in the day to a set of popular trim combos is there something like this already for Porsche? Putting volume to one place would allow material quantity and productio runs to get materials more authentic possibly?
In non Porsche case for wife seats were even cheaper than if we had ordered from factory on option and they've held up well. And nice job originally in terms of material and fit. Not quite the same granted.
I'm not in market for seat retrim so maybe already done as I've never looked really. The key was the combo of good local craft skills of specialist trim shop hand on car at start to measure and order correct item and then fit covers but a more productionized outsourced cover low cost and scale efficiencies - also one throat to choke as I dealt with the trimmer shop and wouldn't have known the offshore part if he hadn't explained the business model. Fraction of if they'd completely bespoked them.
Steve
PS When I was group ops director at Lotus the trim line was at side of main assembly staffed with experienced folks who'd done it for years. Nice to see such work.
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Actually the hard part is getting the preformed foam. We currently have 19 sets of sport seats waiting for some kind of recover. Most are getting non black recovers. Will post some midway after we have some practice or better yet once the cars are ready for sale.
thanks
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@jacksonb: where are you located? europe?
best
uwe
