retrim in leather

Anonymous · August 13, 2006, 23:20

dropped my boxster interior off in norfolk on friday s:)

s:)

seats
roll bar pads
door cards
mobile phone console
cubby lid

and porsche crests embroidered on the seats

£610 (cash)

Anonymous · August 28, 2006, 10:28

interiors finished and its poor s:(

s:(

seats have baggy/loose areas and the door cards are particuarly bad. (lumpy and disformed)

The door cards are being redone by someone else now and I'm also considering having the seats redone as well.

Its unfortunate that were off to St tropez in the motor so I had to take them back as they were, but in all honesty I would never use this chap again.

They would probably look ok in a corsa/nova or old car (his normal clients) but they are definately not upto Porsche standard (or mine)

Obviously he has done work before that owners have been happy with. But after driving 240 miles to see him, 240 miles to drop them off and 240 miles to pick them up I'm not overly amused. s:evil: :evil: s:evil:

markiii · August 28, 2006, 10:40

not good, any pics Perry?

loadswine · August 29, 2006, 20:38

Horrified to hear that you had a poor job Perry. I would not have given the details out if I had not been totally satisfied with my own job.
Others have seen mine and nobody has said that it was a shoddy job.
I know my car is older than your Porsche and not worth as much, but I still wanted a decent job when it was done.
Hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction in the end matey.

Anonymous · August 31, 2006, 10:29

no probs matey, yours came out fine and good luck to ya s:D

s:D

I pointed out to him that I wouldnt be happy if the finish wasnt exactly the same as stock, ie nice and tight with none of those 'pleats' that appear when the cover doesnt fit properly.

unfortunately theres a lot of these and they are high lighted on the yellow leather parts, probably because its so bright.

The door cards have lumps that look like the glue has started to go off possibly? you know how evostick goes like 'snot' when its going off?

also where the centre panels of the door cards have been prised apart , they now have uneven edges where they used to be smooth, you can see where a tool as been used to lever them apart at the edges and 'dented' the panel underneath the leather, on the edges.

when I picked them up I put some of the faults down to the bright lighting in his workshop room and hoped they would look better in the car, but unfortunately not.

He was good enough to post the remainiing leather down to me so that I could get the cards redone properly but that hardly the point is it?

going away for 10 days and will make a desision when I get back, but I think its probably going to have to be a c0mpletely new retrim by a a prefessional company not working from their house.

I had exactly the same thing with a bodyshop once, I had a great respray and recommended them to a friend. they cocked his car right up! such is life I suppose.

spoke to 2 specialist porsche breakers and for a second hand interior it is £2000 ! so another retrim is the best option at present.

youi live and learn s:wink: :wink: s:wink:

markiii · August 31, 2006, 14:44

if they screwed it up I'd be expectign them to put it right, you shouldn't need to pay twice

heathstimpson · September 6, 2006, 16:19

Quote from: "markiii"if they screwed it up I'd be expectign them to put it right, you shouldn't need to pay twice

Too right s:shock: :shock: s:shock:

Anonymous · September 10, 2006, 17:57

Quote from: "markiii"if they screwed it up I'd be expectign them to put it right, you shouldn't need to pay twice

theres no way hes going anywhere near my car again!

Having now spent 10 days and 2500 miles wacking it down to st tropez, caans, nice, monaco, san remo etc I'm defo liking the yellow leather s:D

s:D , just not the poor workmanship s:evil: :evil: s:evil:

heathstimpson · September 10, 2006, 18:55

Much better than that green interia it did have; very nice indeedy s:shock: :shock: s:shock: s8)

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