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Old 04 July 2002, 06:27 PM
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Hi,

I was thinking about putting a leather interior in at some point and have seem some pics of leather covered bucket seats - which look great

Has anyone had leather put into a standard car with bucket seats and in reality are they as good as they look?

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Old 04 July 2002, 06:42 PM
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NitoSport will do a leather interior for you.
The car I saw looked fantastic, quality wise.
www.nitosport.co.uk
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Thanks

A place in Glasgow will do it for around £1000 - which seems the going rate for leather interiors.

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Old 05 July 2002, 01:20 PM
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Looked into having my old farmer giles non buckets seats covered and was quoted £1000-£1250 depending on colours, door cards, etc.

Gave up on that and bought a set of leather buckets from Grade A subaru for £650.00

If you can find something similar second hand (although I haven't seen many sets) you could probably still sell your cloth buckets for £300 - £400 which works out a lot cheaper than having your original seats re-covered.

IMHO, they are better than they look, best mod I ever bought.

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Thanks for the advice Chris

They do look excellent. Given that I only live 30 mins from John Banks I can see myself going for one of his Tek 2.5.x.whatevers first though

Sounds like the £1000 quote up here for the whole interior done in leather is pretty good.

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Power first, I like ur style
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i find leather seats not very grippy, and i tend to slide forward , say when braking hard. it gets annoying inching back into the seat.
my ex girlfriend had her my95 retrimmed, in leather and alcantara. was superb. apart from looking better (IMHO), less 'cold' , it gripped far better.
my evo is being done by jamie shaw at carisma in colchester next week.i will be getting black leather with royal blue alcantara, seats and doorcards. they also embroider logos into the seat, which i'll have done in silver.
i'll post pics as soon as its done.
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That would be great Spudgun - cheers

The slipping is a good point. Last time I had leather was in a Alfa 156 - which had leather momo seats. Did slip a bit, even with that car!

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richard
pick the car up tonight, i hope to have pictures up tomorrow night.
not a straightforward retrim mind, ive even had the grab handles and sun visors retrimmed etc etc. even the a,b and c pillars

i'll post the pics asap tomorrow
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sorry for the poor quality pics. it was the best i could do , didnt have much time.
hope you like 'em.
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Snap!

Nice choice of colours and materials.I did the same but couldnt justify several £k on it so did it myself (not finished yet tho still doing back seats and cards etc)
Alcantara is lovely- not slippy/sweaty/cold and far better looking (in my opinion anyway)I even had ebough alcantara left to trim a lot of the dash board.

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blimey, you should have done mine...nice job!! would have saved me a few quid!
blue alcantara with black leather, hard to beat, just looks so good
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Cool

have got black and grey leather fitted with wrx stitched int head thinking of replacing with sti interior from a 98 car any thoughts?
stephen
ps also retrimed door cards with grey alacantra they look the biz will post pics if i can
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