Upholstery Ideas...

[Jeph]

Sooner or later my seats will need to be either redone or replaced. The driver seat already has a case of skin cancer at the left hip/lumber region. I was thinking of ideas and I thought this would look kinda cool... (see photoshop below) What do y'all think?

[98Boxster98]

I like it because that's pretty much what I want to do except the insert gray portion I think I going to try alcantara (suede.)

[denverpete]

I think that would look fantastic!

Can you photoshop me a supercharger?

[ralegen]

How much do you think this will cost?I would love to do mine too; I even thought of going a cheap route. I think there were seat covers that "supposedly" covered our seats really well. These covers went for a little over $100 on ebay, but I wasn't able to run into them again.

[98Boxster98]

Originally Posted by ralegen

How much do you think this will cost?

As most things Porsche, it's not going to be cheap. For example, GAHH has replacement seat covers for $1500 in standard colors. So I anticipate just a little north of that figure. I've only had casual conversation with upholsters on this. It's not something I can do soon, though (middle of the pack priority.)

[Jeph]

I don't see why the price would be any different on a Boxster as a Miata or something. Seats are seats. I've noticed when a dealer sends cars to an upholestery shop for leather (cars that aren't available in leather), the mark-up isn't ridiculous... $800 or so.

That suede-like idea sounds a-ok to me! It would look better/less shiney than leather. I'll have to call some shops around.