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Below pic of hole. I filled this with some seating foam I had laying which was really firm, cut a nice square hole and got ride of the damaged area then glued this in and cut to shape to get bolster shape back however the fabric wasnt pulling tight enough as it had stretched slightly with the damage and constant elbow pressure so then bought some wadding from fabric shop £2 for half a meter bargain and recovered the whole bolster. Fabric now sits nice and tight and no ripples and shape is back to original on bolster! Job done! Love working on these old cars, if that had been a modern car it would have taken me more than 45mins to get the seat out to start with lol!!
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Great repair on the seat! and a transformation of the paint work.
I'm looking at fitting a pair of Recaro LS seats to my 93 cabriolet.
Is the seat base the standard cabriolet base or have they used a different base due to the lower seated position?
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The rear of my sportline never had underlay in it (is this normal or has someone taken it out?) so I had to chamfer the sides of the underlay so I could tuck them and then the carpet under the seat guide rails to ensure they dont snag. Worked a treat and is nice and tight under them now.
Really happy with this underlay ticks a lot of boxes and should last.
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Madone with the two Cabs 82 (UK RHD) and 85 (US LHD) (92 sold)
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Then I painted the runner rails in textured paint so they look brand new again.
Also installed some new red seatbelts (kept originals) and got a bit anal about painting all the nuts and bolts
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Also installed the custom gaitor and gear know from page 2 you saw me doing just lifts the car to the next level… but I have kept all original bits as well just for future preservation.
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Oh and decided to put a new ground in behind instrument cluster and pack the connector out as is suggested with a strip of electrical tape while I had most of dash apart. My MFA only gave me the clock so who knows if it fixes it or not as I havnt tried yet. Fingers crossed!
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Deano777 said
Can i just ask you mate after looking at your photos my centre console is identical to yours with the circle holes cut into one oval ? Why is that ? Thought mine was a bodge job then saw yours any info ? Regards Dean
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I've seen a few for sale on ebay with one circle and one oval so its not uncommon but I cant explain why
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2003 BMW 330d Manual Saloon Msport
1985 GTI cabriolet black edition (42k miles)
1999 Triumph Daytona 955i Post apocalyptic, rat, brat, scrambler, steam punk, cafe racer
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Once later cabs came in with power window and tops they mullered the holes out to fit the switch plate even though some late cabs only had one switch for roof, or 3 for window and roof.
Just chopped out the plastic.
Why they couldn’t of found a way of making individual round blanking plates for the switches I don’t know
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