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The backstory....No good deed goes unpunished. I was helping my wife's cousin disassemble a gas grill, for disposal. I put a screwdriver in my back pocket, while taking the thing apart, and forgot about it. We get the grill apart, and I get in my car to go home, and immediately shove the screwdriver through the upholstery.
I hit the internet, checking out the major Corvette suppliers, and all they will sell is a complete set of replacement covers (leather) for both seats. All I really need, is the one, driver's side lower cover. The car is 21 years old, but a low mileage car. The passenger seat has hardly been sat it. I really don't want to spend $11-1200 for all four covers.
I came across a supplier called "Richmond Auto Upholstery", located in Texas. Along with being an actual upholstery shop, they also sell individual covers, for repair purposes. They sell, through their E-Bay store, the cover I need.
After all that, my question......does anybody here have any experience with this supplier? If so, were you satisfied with the quality of their seat covers, and how is there customer service?
I realize you screwed up and made a terrible, stupid mistake but why should the cousin have to settle for a seat cover which just covers existing damage (which will continue to degrade, get worse) - just a REAL upholstery business in the area.
Never heard of this company, but if you are going to do the install yourself, there are plenty of videos on youtube to show you how.
If you don't want to get involved in the installation, any shop can get the material and do the job.
Just replacing the bottom section is no big deal.
The one company I personally would not go to is "Rides", advertises on the corvette forum.
I think they go under a different name now, something like "sharper image" or some name like that.
I got booted off the corvette forum because I stated their products looked like **** when installed, and they do.
My advice is to call a shop in your area, and let them handle it.
I realize you screwed up and made a terrible, stupid mistake but why should the cousin have to settle for a seat cover which just covers existing damage (which will continue to degrade, get worse) - just a REAL upholstery business in the area.
HUH??????
First of all, the damage was done by me, to MY car. And the term "seat cover" is what is used, to describe the material that covers the underlying foam of the seat.
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Originally Posted by CALGUY
Never heard of this company, but if you are going to do the install yourself, there are plenty of videos on youtube to show you how.
If you don't want to get involved in the installation, any shop can get the material and do the job.
Just replacing the bottom section is no big deal.
The one company I personally would not go to is "Rides", advertises on the corvette forum.
I think they go under a different name now, something like "sharper image" or some name like that.
I got booted off the corvette forum because I stated their products looked like **** when installed, and they do.
My advice is to call a shop in your area, and let them handle it.
I plan on having the cover professionally installed, as I'm pretty good with wrenches under the hood, but not with hog ring pliers on the seats! I doubt that the current upholstered section can be adequately repaired, because the puncture is in the section where the leather is perforated.
The backstory....No good deed goes unpunished. I was helping my wife's cousin disassemble a gas grill, for disposal. I put a screwdriver in my back pocket, while taking the thing apart, and forgot about it. We get the grill apart, and I get in my car to go home, and immediately shove the screwdriver through the upholstery.
I hit the internet, checking out the major Corvette suppliers, and all they will sell is a complete set of replacement covers (leather) for both seats. All I really need, is the one, driver's side lower cover. The car is 21 years old, but a low mileage car. The passenger seat has hardly been sat it. I really don't want to spend $11-1200 for all four covers.
I came across a supplier called "Richmond Auto Upholstery", located in Texas. Along with being an actual upholstery shop, they also sell individual covers, for repair purposes. They sell, through their E-Bay store, the cover I need.
After all that, my question......does anybody here have any experience with this supplier? If so, were you satisfied with the quality of their seat covers, and how is there customer service?
Thanks in advance!
Don’t have any experience with that supplier, but would suggest getting on one of the bigger corvette forums and inquire. I frequent the BMW forums for my model and they are a wealth of information for these sort of things. Lots of owner input!
Upholstery shops are disappearing rapidly, we had one here locally that had been in business over 70 years that I loved and they up and closed due to aging owners and no one to take over.
That's a good video, however the section of the seat that I damaged, is a perforated section of the seat, which makes it difficult to repair in a manner that wouldn't be too obvious.
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