beaver rs 88

Has anyone had there recaros retrimmed in leather on the bolsters and headrest but left the centre in the original fabric? If you could post a few pics as I'm thinking of having mine done but the retrimmers want 950 + vat to do them! Anyone else think that's abit expensive?

neil73

Sounds expensive to me mate, who's given you the quote?

1.9 xr2 on 40's

thats fookin crazy
look on ebay to get a hide or even rememnet large enough and any upholdster can do it
i stripped a set of recaros once and bought the leather and my mum was sposed to make them but never did
leather cost under £40 enough to do fronst and rears, if they are able to take the material apart and copy it its so easy to do

given a basic machine you could do it unpick the seems, cut copies of the greymaterial in leather and sew back together inside out, and reattach, you can even coevr up mistakes easy because the covers will pull about quite alot

for a grand and over i'd give it a go 1st even if you buy a shit seat for £50 and make patterns from that

i told my mum to do off the shelf leather kits but she never bothers, could ask 600 i recon and £200 to fit if needed which takes minimum time really

beaver rs 88

Its a local company in sheffield called sheffield retrimmers (belowskis) there shit hot but very expensive he has a roll of the original 90spec zolda fabric and says he won't charge me more for the fact its not available anymore yeah right lol anyone got any pics of theirs in half leather?

fish99

I dont know if its much help, but my old man has just taken his Taxi in today to have the drivers recaro seat retrimmed in half leather. They are charging him nigh on £300 just to do the one seat.

beaver rs 88

Its an expensive buisness this retrimming game I really want them done in leather but ijust can't justify throwing that much money on some seats. Anyone no if sparco, cobra etc make tilting front seats as they maybe cheaper than having the originals retrimmed at this rate

luke19790_3

is £950 for the front seats?

beaver rs 88

no its for both fronts and the rear bench mate

kidsRS

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i paid 1300 for full retrim in my old beemer, front n rear recaro seats, front n back door cards in black n white leather was a mint job

martinmilne

Ive got 90 spec half leathers will get some pics up love them was brought off ebay didnt know it would have cost that much

1.9 xr2 on 40's

you may have original 1/2 leather recaros
i have these
tennis edition

rs milesy

I had my series 1 seats retrimmed in grey leather similar to original colour fabric, leaving the centers in the original fabric, by JP King in leicester cost was £700, a few years ago mind, front and back seats look superb, but I saw some done in dark blue on the seriesoneturbo site in luca's car and they look so much better, wished I had seen them before and had mine done the same.

jonny s2

iTrader: (12)

Good re-trims dont come cheap, i had the rare black half leather,with zolda middles in my amethyst cab many moons ago, and looked great, better than the grey i thought!!

what colours the car?

martinmilne

Mine are in a hatch and slightly different to the tennis ones have got black half leathers too but only fronts

Karlos G

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Maybe give this guy a call?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rs-turbo-r...item20c79db1e5

Rogeyboy

iTrader: (2)

They look a nice job too!
Good spot Karlos!

beaver rs 88

Karlos I'm bidding on them at the moment. Just need to see if he can do the back bench the same cheers.

Karlos G

iTrader: (4)

They do! Seen a few different listings with retrimmed Recaro's and all looked pretty good (well, as much as you can tell from a small pic of course! lol)
Sweet!

rs oldschool

If you were near to me I would have trimmed them for 450 and you supply the leather or add 85 to 120 for hide depending on colour

beaver rs 88

Where you based mate I'm on my phone so can't see a location don't get much time to go on laptop.

rs oldschool

Hi I'm in south Wales

beaver rs 88

Bit too far away lol think I'm gonna start looking at new seats its gonna be cheaper