Swapping Seat Backs

[Starter986]

Someday I'd like to have the seatbacks leather changed to match the red interior. Just the seatbacks.

Can anyone share how to remove the seatbacks? I've seen some posts somewhere... but it appears tugging, sliding, and pulling are involved and I didn't want to muck things up.

Thanks!

[rexcramer]

Thank-you everybody for your help with this. There are professional leather options locally which I will search out eventually. I have leather products and gray shoe polish that I currently use with decent results. I am trying to buy some time and prevent it from tearing before I spend money. I need to spend money on brakes, oil change, horns and the OEM 6 disc cd changer, that recently stopped working, first.

I will post pictures as I go. Safe travels....

[MrBen]

The guy that installed my new top noticed I had a worn side bolster I think he called it. He had a book he could order the individual seat panels for the boxster they came already died in my case Savannah biege. I think he quoted me$300 to replace that panel

[rexcramer]

I finally got around to removing the driver's seat to explore the swap. The farther I got into it, the less it seemed to make sense. So I reinstalled the seat and waited for a better solution. Then KJC2050 posted before/after pictures of his seats a couple of weeks ago. He used a company, https://www.fibrenew.com/ with what looked to be amazing results. There is a local rep who worked on my seat this morning with the same results. I pulled the seat out and had it on a bench for the tech in my garage. +/- 2 hours and $300 later the seat looks great. The work has 1 year warranty.

Before and after pics;

[outsidetheboxster]

Originally Posted by Starter986

Someday I'd like to have the seatbacks leather changed to match the red interior. Just the seatbacks.

Can anyone share how to remove the seatbacks? I've seen some posts somewhere... but it appears tugging, sliding, and pulling are involved and I didn't want to muck things up.

Thanks!

Did you find a way to remove the seat back that you can share? I need to replace the recline motor in my 01 S. Sourced one off eBay but not sure how to crack the seat open and don't want to go further than necessary.

[KevinH1990]

Originally Posted by outsidetheboxster

Did you find a way to remove the seat back that you can share? I need to replace the recline motor in my 01 S. Sourced one off eBay but not sure how to crack the seat open and don't want to go further than necessary.

Boxster Seat Disassembly Procedure Part 1 of 2

There is some information about removing and reinstalling the seat-back motor in a pdf that I posted here:
https://rennlist.com/forums/boxster-and-boxster-s-986-forum/915206-upgrading-two-way-power-seats.html#post12956868

The pdf is too large to upload on this site.

[outsidetheboxster]

Thank you so much! I know what I'm doing this weekend. Maybe anyway. Fall is coming on fast and I have a lot left to do before the rains come back.