Getting to the bottom of it '2 '(seats).

Evening Folks,

After getting the carb's back on Pearle I was able to free up some space to start on CD's seats.  The seat bottoms were beyond repair, if it had just been the thread in the seams I would have tried to save them but the leather was worn through so we decided to get new covers.  The foam appeared to be original and interestingly the cover was glued to the foam along the center portion.  The reason I mention this is that this has been a small point of contention on the JL forum in the past with some folks saying that they were not glued etc.  I will use 'lasts' to hold the seat cover in the 'groove' in addition to contact cement, this has worked very well on mine and it was a tip I picked up from one of my auto upholstery books.

Seat being readied for disassembly 

Seat latch mechanism, this car is 698 cars later than mine which doesn't have a locking mechanism.  We will want to get new covers for this, the originals are plastic and quite frail however the S3 cars had a similar mechanism with a metal cover plate.  I have been lead to believe that the metal ones will fit on the same way with a little modification so may check them out depending on the cost difference.

Worn out seat cover

Old foam, has started to decay

Pealing the cover off the foam and seat frame.

Old foam, the stories it could tell ;-)

Making a 'last' which will hold the cover into the corners, the yarn goes through the edge of the cover at the corner and is drawn through the foam, then it's secured underneath with a 'button' to prevent it from being pulled through.

Seat frame with diaphragm, will glue the foam as per original to the edge of the frame, you can see the 'lasts' in place before the foam is flipped over and glued in place.


Well that's it for tonight, tomorrow will finish up the seat bottom then move on to the back rest.

Cheers,
Lynn


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