Has anybody replaced seat covers?

[Brian in Tucson]

Originally Posted by morgal48

The seats in my 2000S looked awful, and after considering costs I opted to try Leatherique as a starting point. The results, for me, were better than expected. The seats don't look 17 years old. At a recent PCA GTG folks were surprised that the interior was original. The process is slow, but the results, and cost, make it a reasonable option. The car is 1500 mi. away right now so no pictures are available.

The seats in my 01 base WERE awful! How an 01 Boxter (74500 miles!) could be that bad is beyond me. They looked like a 47 Ford truck that had been parked next to a barn for 30 years. The pleather was shredded, the foam was degraded, and the metal parts inside the seats were exposed. Had to sit on a bit of rug to drive the poor car home (it has other problems.):ah:

I elected to buy a set of black pleather seats on ebay. Very nice but with the scuffs mentioned in an earlier post. I paid $600 for the pair, shipped from Santa Fe, I live in Tucson. Close enough to the original Metropol blue to not stick out too much.

Deep cleaning and a bunch of other work and the interior, while not exactly new looking, looks 100% better than it did.