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mart you can keep your fart infested cloth interior to yourself!

il grab some daylight pics tomorrow of the interior i need to put the shelf in etc but 99% complete now it looks awesome i just wish i knew how to dye the carpet beige again and i would have done that too!! very chuffed with the results fla probably best to give me a call bud and il chat you through it if you like? pm your num,ber or something and il give you a bell tomorrow ive got to take the lady out tonight im ofski! cheers oil herst il see what pics ive got when i get in but daylight ones would be best

if you could strecth to it then C 9 ADO is available... oh wait its the same money out of your orginial question its a tuffy i think id go with the first one as it just looks better

lol she can have the bloody dog its a pain in the ass!! nrobrado has got one on here too! he will tell you the same.. furntiure clinic ring them and ask them for it they will send you the right gear.. 1) get a compressor make this absoluite rule as it is so much better and quicker and easier and you loose less gear. 2) get the colour, gloss finish and satin finish, and last but not least alcohol cleaner. the leather prep as far as i can tell is cellulose thinners (i used that when the leather prep ran out) this will save you some bucks! 3) go to tecos or boots and get a big bag of cotton wool 4) go to a car accessory shop and get some red absavive sponge cloth stuff 5) make sure you have a hair dryer handy i have all the instructions from there meadium package i bought if you let me know what your intending to do il give you a rough idea of the quntities you will need to get

i re fitted the drivers seat yesterday evening and used it today no probs with it at all and the best bit is the heated element works a treat!!!! you beauty! lol if anybody wants any advice or help on this stuff i dont mind answering a few questios (i know im no expert but il tell it how it is) you can pm me or whatever i think if your wanting a partial re-trim then this is definatly they way ahead it looks so good in the flesh , my car looks like one of those magazine features with mega mint interior now and i am so chuffed lol

the element fit the base much better now i then turned mt attention back to the seat re-furb... the drivers bolsters were bad much worse when i looked at them in detail and i began to wonder if i could make them better these pics were taken after i started the prep in no paricular order... i broke out the filler and went a bit crazy the bolsters look so much better

riiiiggghhhttt onnnnnnn your on a slippery slope my man no not slippery treacherous!! lol once you do a couple items your fecked and you'l end up doing them all as the old stuff though maybe clean will look shite! nlol tried uploading all this crap last night but as i was typing it all deleted!!! il try again! thought id tackle the drivers seat today as i was stripping to clean it up i thought heck il see if i can fix the heater element , as if it didnt work it would only piss me off! so to start you got to take the centre section out by pushing the metal bar thats held in by these shitty clips.... once thats been achieved you should get something like this to look at you have then got to take out the staples around the edges and gently take the leather off the foam the heater element will then be revealed, it looks like this.......... see the two wires attached at the bottom , you need to get a multimeter and set it to buzzer to check continuity if you place the red and black across these wires and the circuit is complete then it will beep!! if it has a break in it, it will not sound and therefore you need to check further.......... this one looks ok and checked out ok. next onto the seat base and do the same take out the staples etc the heater element is sandwiched between this cloth material... over the years this one has creaped back and squashed up i thought that this might be the cause of the fault?? i seperated the cloth to see what the loom looked like the element looks fine needed to go deeper ah whats this?? yep the element has burnt out..... the trick is to test the element where you think its good and work back from there i localised the3 fault but i wanted to see where it exactly broke... so i went about stripping the wire back slightly to find the break and i struck lucky here it is if you look carefully you will see the blue wire that has melted between the break making the open circuit... i then soldered it up and ironed the material flat so it would fit the base again i sprayed it with spray glue and then placed the heater element back out as ti was supposed to be

lol you bitches at least i will be crusing in style.........................muhahahahahahahahaha unlike you pussys in the doom blue cars!

the colour is called corrado beige........... its on thier system as that and that is what is on the bottle it comes in.... my seats both have stickers on them and its called hellbeige!! if you let me know how much your thinkning of doing il let you know what you will need as i did it on a wing and a prayer..

i think its just hit me ...you cant actually bring yourself to drive it as you havent any recaros!! lol the thought of coming to see us is just so embarressing you make up excuses so as not to drive it! even rob has porker seats now!!! matts got his s3's mate youve got to spend some of that money your hiding lol i could always cut you some foam and we could strecth you bolsters ?

i have a test light and ive placed it in the connectore that would connect to the seat and it lights up when you roll the switch round and turnsd off when rolled the other way, so with that i take it the relay works fine??? i mean im cleanign my seat too and i have already taken the upper seat apart to find nothing, so im left with no option ,butto take the base apart in the morning!!! i dont own a multimeter so im gonna have to buy one i rekkon!

i dont understand why your so scared of it chris???? lol

your missing some pics bud....................... need some of your dice porn!! lol

found my gearbox plugs tonight rob so we can change that when ever you fancy matey!! yes this will be very nice indeed when you get it back will be such a nice colour even if it is plum your going for............... :tongue:

cheers rob , ive just called it a night ive just stripped down the driver seat and taken the leather off , i wanted to see if the heater element was damaged in there.......... but alas it doesnt look damaged im going to have to ni pout and buy a multimeter so i can test the continuity tomorrow before i rip open the base...... im taking pics so i can show a how to incase anybody needs to do the same at some point... il pop over and get the speaker supports tomorrow bud cheers

cheers guys , yea done the head rest was a pain as the material ? clip underneath had come undone so it took me ages and ages to get it back on properly looks sorted now though even spent some time cleaning all the seat plastics up so the seat is almost as good as new..... heater doesnt work on the drivers seat though??? i think im going to strip it down dont know what im looking for but i hope i can fix it!

got it phil cheers

Good Morning! going to start todays bloggy thing with................. guess what yes more boring ass pictures....lol maybe ott but i like to document everything as it happens or il never do it! got me work cut out for me today i really need to make some progress as im getting grief from the women in the house as im stinking it out!! (theyve been good up to now but yesterday was kinda rough), i have some plastics to prep ans some seats to repair... the drivers recaro sat next to the passenger one now looks completly shagged and im looking at it wondering where the hell do i start with it as it is quite a mess in comparison.... im not sure how this one is going to turn out tbh but ive got to do it.... one positive note about all of this is the furniture clinic who supplied me the clourant got it absolutly spot on!!! ????hows that you might be thinking......... well the rear seat base ive taken out today and the sides never see the light of day, and in all its glory the colour has been preserved....and its a damn good match,ok its still 16 years old and the seat i have just done has ot got any feed on it yet but you can see its almost there much better than i first expected! the bolsters on this one are far worse than the other.... but it is the drivers side so i guess should be expected..... this is something i have got to repair before it makes a hole!!! the back of most rados seats are trashed like this one always real dirty and have big scrathces /battle scars.... well thats what ive got to look forward to today ive got loads to do and im waiting for the posty to get some more gear so i can crack on.................

Hello no I took a chance , they want you to take a 5p size bit of material and post it to them they then match it exactly for you.... They had only ever got one corrado on file 94/95 can't remember which a customer sent jn a rear card sample I thought well as they supposedly only made 1? Beige it's got to be close enough! In the flesh once it's dried properly the match is better but this is still lighter?? Fresher IMO it looks much better than the original job the plastics now match properly and it's all one colour, I just can't wait to get it all back in the car to see what it looks like!

of course you can cheers fella!

i know can you believe it in the flesh they look so so good the drivers seat is in worse condition but hopefully i can bring it back to life!,, i will never look at worn leather seats in the same way again!!

ok back to my camcorder pics i prefer them to the camera we normally use.... balls i forgot to take a pic of the back but anyway you know what im getting at..... ive orderd some more colourant and finishes i havent airbrushed for years and years got me right back in the mood today i might even try and do something with my swg scuttle panel.......

well started on some more interior plastics this morning took out all of the boot plastics i have prepped them and sprayed them all i need to do is put the satin top coat on then they are finished.... i took a chance and ripped out the passenger side recaro seat today and thought bugger it im gonna go for it and see what happens.... , now they look ok dont get me wrong they are clean is not tatty but the leather is good, they have the useual bolster problems.... you can see hte ground in dirt you just cant get it out...... also in the above pics on the bolsters you can see the PAINT cracking i always used to think that this was the leather cracking and therefore shagged and need a re-trim, read on.................... you will have to excuse some of the pics as i wanted to try and picture it in natural light no flash the flash just makes everything look white!! you might be able to see on the varying photographs the different stages of the leather being prepped, you will notice that the cracks have almost dissappeard and the leather looking a lot lighter, thats because when you prep it it takes all of the shit off the leather revealing the colour uinderneath, even after the prep they looked good, in some areas i took all the paint off (by accident ) but it doesnt matter, on the upper part of the seat bolsters on the left hand side the leather had cracked just a small crack about 5mm long i used the repair filler and now its gone totally!!! i cannot stress enough how good this stuff is to use i really cant and easy wow ,so easy............ anyway the pics dont do it justice and it looks something like this.................... even the back after cleaning is still grubby so i did the back as well! before il stick the after ones up when i find the lead!!

yea sure matey everything i have used so far has come from the furniture clinic they sell different kits or single items i have only purchased the 'middle' kit £55 plus £5 postage and they say that will do a pair of front seats ............ i wanted to practise a bit first and im pretty confident that i wll get all of the plastics in the car done and maybe the smaller of the rear seats i am ordering some more on monday as i have some time this week to hopefully finish this lot off!! give them a call they are uber helpful and very reasonably priced and the kits contain just about everything you need!! i woudl urge though if you can get your hands on a compressor do it as it is so much better than the propellant

thanks guys appreciate that!