Seat bolster

Hi, anybody know if you can where you can get the seat bolster/ material for clipper please.

Newton Commercials sell the Foam Bolster.

Thanks

Morning dude…
i think you may find that Newton don't actually do the foam for the base of a Cabrio seat… looks like a Tintop.

They vary - tintops you can get the separate parts, outers & central base yet for the cabrio they are a complete base - 1 part, i may be corrected but i think all cabrio seats (later models 83/84 onwards) are pretty much the same except for the Recaro's in a Sportline.

VW part #191 881 375 D

as for Material, not sure if there's any British sites, try Classic VW - Mark Carter, if not Werk34.de will do it & there's a Dutch site too which i'm not sure of the name sorry…

 

Thanks for that. Didn't realise they were different

On my 89 and 3 90's Cabbies, all having sport line seats, the bolsters and the seat back and bottoms were one piece.  

The bolsters take a beating. puncture through the foam and eventually wear the material out from the inside..because of the wear of the iron bar on the bolster to the seat of your pants.

They can be repaired, as I have done that in the past as the newer ones are pricey, the foam costing as much as the cover…

I am pretty sure that the replacement 3 piece could be glued to the center, and it would be held in place by either hog rings, opps pc here, Swine Jewlery…. or wire ties.  I have had good luck in using "Gorillia Glue" to reattach the side bolsters to the seat bottom where torn, but using that you have to remember that a little goes a long way, and Clamping it together is better (I used Tape) to hold both bolsters to the seat bottom.

In the Archive Section below in the How-tos look for Briano's 90 Cabriolet links….  

I have also taken the Bolsters off my 90 and used Passat seat covers and foam on  the Cabriolet frame, the Velour was more fun to sit in cold, kept the sweltering sun to a minimum, and the wider seat bottom supported my wider seat bottom more comfortably on longer drives of over 800 Miles.

Thanks again guys, your right that it's a complete base in one piece, been round the sites, classic vw, heritage etc, all seem to be for recaro, I've had saved searches on eBay for the last year and nothing lol, if I could get the material there's a local car trimmers I know, maybe they can glue and shape a piece of foam in,not sure though,I'll have to pay them a visit👍

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Nope I an anti-social, so I don't do FB, the Wife and kids do, but not I…..

I had the drivers set on my 83 tintop retrimmed last year. As said already, it's different from yours as my base was 3 parts and I bought them from Newton Commercial. The guy that did the repairs said he could cut me the pieces of foam if neccessary but if possible buy premade ones. His words were that if the premade ones were made from injection moulded foam then buy them, if not he could make me some from a block of injection moulded foam but they would be hand cut so the shape may not be as exact as a properly moulded one. If you find a good retrimmer then he should be able to make you the bits but make sure it's out of injection moulded foam or it won't last very long.
Be prepared to pay, my seat cost around £450 all in but it's like new and really comfy.
Hope this helps.

Thanks for advise

the foams on post-84 cabrio is same as mk2 golf from 84-89 so that should help with your search. as mentioned differ to tintop gti and are 1 piece.

a passenger seat will usually have everything you need for a repair, baring the backrest which will have a hole in it for the tilt handle on the wrong side if you need the backrest material