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Hi All,

MY 944 (square dash) has cream "tombstone" seats with leather side panels. The seam has split between the leather and the cloth on the seat bases closest to the door on both the drivers and passengers seat. I imagine this is due to brittle leather.

Is there a DIY repair for this? I was thinking of backing the leather with some reinforcement and restitching - is this realistic?

I've got my eye on a cream leather interior off of the internet, but also not happy with spending £400 on a interior for a £2k car at this time! Not sure I could get it past the girlfriend.

Will

Its vinyl, not leather. Early seats split because they don't give. Later type seats (tombstones are manual sports seats, which have a wide head rest and look like a grave stone) have an expansion fold which gives, preventing the materials from eventually parting.

A good/experienced with Porsche trimmer can usually repair them, but they will fail again unless you use new fabric and PVC.

Oh right OK, so it's probably worth leaving them as they are?

Have my eye on a cream leather interior, just trying to work out if the seats are worth £500 to me it look a little better!

Will

i used a company call J M Grant in birmingham, they have always done a cracking job on my seats.

or werks924 for seat cover kits. site is in german though

Id suggest Vaughan Green in Loughborough. Massively experienced with Porsche seats.

If youre buying better then keep your old seats plastic-wrapped. If the leather is good then the £500 wont disappear and youll always be able to cash it in.

£500 seems like a lot. I realise that youll want to keep them under your hat, but you can PM me a link and I will tell you what I think - but itll probably be 'too dear'. Send a pic of your car/interior too as the value to you can be greater for a low demand colour, if it suits your car. Not black should always be cheaper though.


Simon

Id probably use a trimmer to fit seat covers too. How much are W924's covers? Ive seen pictures of covers for 924S LMs in grey and turquoise, but no prices for those (sports seats) or regular seats that I could make out with my schoolboy German.

OP: how tall are you? I have a set of 'cream' leather out of a LHD Turbo. Height is important because the electric height adjustment on series two seats lifts them up from their lower position and only the drivers seat is electric. Not an issue if youre taller, but a real impediment if youre only 5'6".

Theyre by the side of my desk here, but I hadn't really considered selling them before as theyre special/unusual, but there is a limit to the number of seat sets that I can keep in the house before Im regarded as mental (currently these, black leather electric sports seats & early script tombstone sport seats - also a mint set of JDM MX-5 NB one piece seats in tan leather and a pair of Sparco racing seats, rears for the Grey-Beige turbo leather seats & leather sports seats and a 968CS rear 'seat')

Id forgotten the perfect set of basic electric black script seats out of an S2 too, but theyre in my shed so they don't really count.

ohh yeah, vaughan green is good

Vaughan has been on the telly a bit now and his prices have crept up, but he mended Porsche seats for me 20yrs ago and he has been doing them ever since. Considering his experience which is invaluable on these seats, Id say that he was cheap.