Mark 2 Jaguar Interior

[TokyoRich]

So.. I bought my MKII about 18 months ago and got it straight into a paint shop to take it down to bare metal and respray it.. Now it is finally finished and I am turning my attention to the interior.

The question I have is that, the way I see it I have 3 options:
- Get a trimmer to completely retrim the thing
- Buy a full interior kit from one of the various companies that supply them
- Try to do it myself with furniture clinic products - problem being that the driver seat beading is gone so I would at least need an upholsterer to do that..

Any thoughts, have others been in the same position?

I have already ordered a full wood kit which should be ready in a month or so..

Exciting times..

[Flatinfourth]

TokyoRich said:

So.. I bought my MKII about 18 months ago and got it straight into a paint shop to take it down to bare metal and respray it.. Now it is finally finished and I am turning my attention to the interior.

The question I have is that, the way I see it I have 3 options:
- Get a trimmer to completely retrim the thing
- Buy a full interior kit from one of the various companies that supply them
- Try to do it myself with furniture clinic products - problem being that the driver seat beading is gone so I would at least need an upholsterer to do that..

Any thoughts, have others been in the same position?

I have already ordered a full wood kit which should be ready in a month or so..

Exciting times..

Hi I'm in Sandhurst and use two trimmers, each to suit a given budget -pm me for details!

[The Surveyor]

I took my tired leather seats down the Furniture Clinic route but instead of their DIY kits, I took them to their workshop who did a cracking job IMHO. As a guide, the cost was just over £1,000 from memory but that was a couple of years ago.

They had to replace several flutes on the leather and repaired sections of damaged piping as well so it sounds like a similar job to what your looking for. The driver is cost to some extent as well as how you want the car to look when complete. New leather will look fantastic but it will look 'new' and if that's what you're after then a re-spray/repair will never look as good. I didn't want to lose the texture of the 45 year old leather so I suited what I wanted:-

Before





And after







Paul

[TokyoRich]

Thanks guys, Paul, the finish is incredible. I too and am a bit cautious of a full retrim as I doubt that the quality of leather is goign to be comparable to what they used 50 years ago..

[williamp]

TokyoRich said:

Thanks guys, Paul, the finish is incredible. I too and am a bit cautious of a full retrim as I doubt that the quality of leather is goign to be comparable to what they used 50 years ago..

You can get the same leather as before, and even softer (annaline??) leather. But the colour is often a difficult match as those days they used lead based dyes which are now banned. However even on a mk2 there will be areas of vinyl which look like leather. These can be made in leather, of course

[The Surveyor]

TokyoRich said:

Thanks guys, Paul, the finish is incredible. I too and am a bit cautious of a full retrim as I doubt that the quality of leather is goign to be comparable to what they used 50 years ago..

Cheers, i'm very pleased with the results but i'm not sure I could have done the same using their DIY kits, they have fillers and repair sections that look to need quite a bit of skill to apply. I have some of the dye left which I've used in an air-brush on some of the additional sections (leather ash-try inserts etc) and the finish is OK, just no where near as good as the proper factory job. Mine were done by Craig at Burnopfield, near Gateshead. I'd suggest taking a seat to their nearest branch and seeing what they say.

Good luck and lets see some pictures

Paul

[TokyoRich]

Thanks, will try but have not yet figured how to upload pictures.... Will look into it over the weekend!

[AllezWasps]

Funnily enough, I'm in exactly the same position with the interior of my Mk2.

The back seats are fine, the front passenger seat is okay but a bit tired but the real problem is the drivers seat which has two or three tears (each one around 3-4 inches) on the base and the back support. I'm not sure that a specialist could repair them (happy to be told otherwise) which means it might be a completely new interior (as replacing one seat just wouldn't work).

[TokyoRich]

AllezWasps, out of interest, what colour is your interior.. My car was not origially green - but it is now and I was wondering what colour leather was in the green cars.. I believe it was tan - which would be another good reason to re-trim the whole thing..

[AllezWasps]

Light green (original) which contrasts well with the BRG paintwork.