Upholstery Ideas... - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Jeph · 04-08-2006, 05:10 PM

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 · 04-08-2006, 05:42 PM

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 · 04-09-2006, 12:28 PM

I think that would look fantastic!

Can you photoshop me a supercharger?

ralegen · 04-09-2006, 08:26 PM

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 · 04-10-2006, 07:32 AM

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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 · 04-10-2006, 02:18 PM

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.