What does this spring do?

[Porsche9]

Originally Posted by Jgkram

Ok, in my ongoing project to refurbish the interior trim, I have gotten around to the seat trim. In taking off the seatback adjustment lever, this little spring pops out and flies to God knows where. I finally found it in the seat rail and I now wonder if it does anything other than help hold the lever off of the seat trim panel. Any ideas??? I assume it goes into the hole I've highlighted in the photo (spring end first).

My second question. I have been covering all of the trim pieces in black lambskin leather and I must say am really pleased with the result. I have thought of trimming out the seat lever panel in leather as well as it does not get a lot of abuse. However what do you guys recommend for the umbrella pocket threshold trim. Paint, Plasti-Dip, just remove the soft touch crap and leave???

Thanks as always...

I took mine apart and where you are pointing is exactly where this spring goes with the shiny bit poking out. Based on this thread I took mine off really carefully to avoid it from flying out.

By the way, how did the refinishing go?

[Jgkram]

Thanks for checking on the spring thing. I'm not an electrical type guy but I think I convinced myself it must be important. When I was taking off the driver side trim plate, I removed the lever that actuates the seat back. I then "tested" the small white knob on the switch itself and could not get the seat back to move. Just for giggles, I placed the lever back on the plate with the spring in contact with the plate, and the switch worked! What's up with that?

The refinishing Is going well and is still in process. I stripped all of the rubbery coating off of both sill plates and seat trim plates. What a pita! I decided to treat the sill plates with C Quartz DLUX ceramic coating. It's tough as nails and lasts forever. The sills turned out really nice. Deep black with a satin finish. The seat trim plate, when stripped, turned out to be a gray color instead of black. I didn't like the way it looked on black seats so I have decided to plastidip it in black with a glossifier coating on top. It should be ok as it doesn't take a lot of hits. Check back in next week and I'll have photos posted.

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It is a pain to remove the rubber coating and yes the seat trim plate is grayish. My interior is graphite gray but figured the plate would be black. Now I have the tough task of matching the color or just go with black.

Curious as how the sills look and if plasti dip holds up. My plate looks pretty rough so I concerned plasti dip won't hold long.

[Jgkram]

So here are the promised photos of my continued interior refurbishment. I have tried to give a couple of comparison shots of before and after as well as a couple of close ups. I have not finished the plastidip application on the seat trim plates yet but will post those later this week.

#1 = Comparison of the seat trim plates. Bottom one is stripped of OEM coating and top one is coated with C. Quartz. Although it looks black it's actually gray when on the black leather, therefore the reason I am trying the Plastidip.
#2 = Comparison of drive side sill plate before and after C. Quartz application.
#3 = 100% coated drive side sill plate.
#4 = Passenger side sill coated with C. Quartz.
#5 = Passenger side sill close up.
#6 = Driver side door trim showing lambskin leather covering armrest and door pull cover.
#7 = Passenger side door trim showing lambskin leather coverings.

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Real nice results!

I went ahead and tried a product made by Rust Oleom called Flexidip. I appears to be similar to Plastidip but they had a grey color really close to what I'm looking for. I need to let it dry for 24 hours and then I'm going to reinstall it. I may need to do the other plastic trim that covers the hinges to get everything matching as the color match is close but not perfect.