Check out my new Leather

ballooba

I was posting on here for a while thinking about getting leather seats or a re-trim. I finally booked it in with Nolan Auto Care last week and had it done yesterday/today. I've taken a few pics for the car perverts on Boards, unfortunately I neglected to take before photos but the cloth was in poor shape. Enjoy!







Actually, I have one (poor) before picture:

keefg

How much did it set you back?

ballooba

€400. That included rebuilding the cushions on the driver's seat.

jayok

Nice one - looks great.

RobAMerc

Is that €400 for a re trim of your old seats in leather ?
That seems really good value. I am currently getting a chair in the house done paying way more and its a far simpler job than a car seat !

ballooba

The €400 was for a genuine Toyota leather kit that was lying around surplus. The covers were put onto my existing seats.

One of the big problems with the previous interior was cigarette burns all over the place.* Mostly on the door cards. There are now only two or three cigarette burns left, one on the headlining and one or two on the sun visors. I think I will try and get replacement sun visors and then see if I can tone down the last one in the headlining.

*What scumbag buys a ~€40k car and puts cigarette burns all over it?

Guy:Incognito

ballooba wrote:

*What scumbag buys a ~€40k car and puts cigarette burns all over it?

Especially on the sunvisor. How would you even go about doing that? I very rarely touch my sunvisors, let alone do them damage.


The problem with commercial vehicles is that an awfull lot of people treat them like skips and dont take care of them ( interior wise). They end up filthy and full of tears etc.

Personnally I treat my van the same as I treat my safrane, with care. I got it 3 weeks ago and its had two fairly vigorous cleans so far. I just don tlike being in a dirty car/van.

ballooba

Stekelly wrote:

Especially on the sunvisor. How would you even go about doing that? I very rarely touch my sunvisors, let alone do them damage.

God knows.

Stekelly wrote:

The problem with commercial vehicles is that an awfull lot of people treat them like skips and dont take care of them ( interior wise). They end up filthy and full of tears etc.

Personnally I treat my van the same as I treat my safrane, with care. I got it 3 weeks ago and its had two fairly vigorous cleans so far. I just don tlike being in a dirty car/van.

Exactly, it's like working in a dirty office surrounded by apple butts and crusty coffee mugs. Not pleasant.

Although it's costing me a little bit, my auto will be in a lot better shape for the next person who buys her. Hopefully that won't be for a long long time though.

Stephen

Impressive price you got. Any idea how much it would have been if you had back seats too?

Volvoboy

Very nice, you and the missus will have to christen (sp) them!!:D




-VB-

Esel

ballooba wrote:

What scumbag buys a ~€40k car and puts cigarette burns all over it?

Maybe a female or metrosexual chain smoker who touches up their hair a lot?

[edit] Didn't realise it's a van. Maybe a scumbag employee about to be fired getting revenge? [/edit]

colm_mcm

We use Nolans for fitting all genuine Toyota leather kits, very good quality work. he also does soft tops.

ballooba

Stephen wrote:

Impressive price you got. Any idea how much it would have been if you had back seats too?

He only had the bits for a commercial. I'd say that is the main reason for the price.