re-trim cavvy interior?

[Jonszee]

I have just had my quote back for a full cream leather re-trim and they want £800 minimum so obviuosly i aint gonna pay that,has anyone got any alternatives or ideas how to re-trim myself to save myself some money?i can do the door cards as ive done these before on many other cars for friends ect but not sure about dash and seats.

[rodgerq]

i know a guy with two full cream leather hides if you are interested i can get a price for you

rodgerq

[Jonszee]

ye that would be great mate if ya could

[triple8]

easy to retrim yourself if ur using alcantera - everything comes off the foam and unstiches - you can stitch back up easily too - took 6 hours to do my 888 rear seats - you will need a pretty good heavy duty machine to do some of it but i had mine done on a household machine - some of it was difficult but not impossible - cost for me was 120 in materials to do the rear seats twice.

also glen yale has someone he knows, glens currently advertising on astra sport offering leather retrims via his friend/contact

[Vauxfan]

There is 2 full leather hides on ebay right now! Why don't you get the cally cream front seats, then unpic the rear cav 1s and copy the pattern with some new material? then tackle the rest. add to this post when you decide to do it, with progress pics as i want to do this too! maybe, but cream from a cally fits in to a 3dr mk3 astra, door cards included i've ben told! so i may do that instead.

[Jonszee]

have ya got the link for these bits on ebay?

[Jonszee]

is this the item you was on about?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEATHER-FULL-H...QQcmdZViewItem

[Vauxfan]

is this the item you was on about?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEATHER-FULL-H...QQcmdZViewItem

No m8! i will have a look. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/A-WHOLE-HIDE-D...QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/A-WHOLE-HIDE-D...QQcmdZViewItem

[rodgerq]

its actually 3 full leather hides the guy has. these are bridge of weir leather, its one of the best leathers in the world, used by the likes of aston martin etc. they were £155 each new £300 for the 3 of them. these are brand new.

rodgerq

[darwins]

mate be carefull, dont bother with cheap hides, you can get good hides for about £150 per skin from bridge of weir, they are based in scotland and the leather is very good quality, with desent quality dye (that wont rub off on you closes, like cheap leather does). bridge of weir is as good as connerly leather.

by the way, i was an upholsterer for 3 years

[rodgerq]

mate be carefull, dont bother with cheap hides, you can get good hides for about £150 per skin from bridge of weir, they are based in scotland and the leather is very good quality, with desent quality dye (that wont rub off on you closes, like cheap leather does). bridge of weir is as good as connerly leather.

by the way, i was an upholsterer for 3 years

its actually 3 full leather hides the guy has. these are bridge of weir leather, its one of the best leathers in the world, used by the likes of aston martin etc. they were £155 each new £300 for the 3 of them. these are brand new.

rodgerq

rodgerq

[Jonszee]

well the price aint moved yet but its early days.

[Benn]

find some one breaking a cav turbo and buy the seats, ok there black but still heated leatherrrr

[Oakey22]

by the way, i was an upholsterer for 3 years

how many hides would you need to do a calibra interior?