Black bucket seats in a grey interior car?

[Kettmark]

As per the above title, I have a full light grey interior in my silver 997.1 c2s. Have been unable to track down suitable folding grey bucket seats so contemplating putting black ones in.
Would this look totally silly?
I thought if I went for it, I could always get some black rear seats too.
Cheaper than re upholstering black buckets in grey and devaluing them when time comes to sell.
I will keep the original seats for resale time down the line.

[markiii]

all grey including the dash and wheel?

I had 996 black buckets in a blue leather 997 and got away with it.

in your case i reckon get new cushions in grey would tie it in nicely especially if you have black dash/wheel

[Kettmark]

All grey including wheel.

[jakesmith]

I think it will look odd. I had a similar dilemma with my grey interior Boxster, that had black floor mats in it and they really looked wrong.
I also really wanted sport seats as that was the only spec my car didn't have (that and PCCB) but they only ever came up for sale in black. It is not hugely expensive to have them recovered & you do get betterment ie they will be like new. I guess you can buy them, put them in the car, if it doesn't bother you keep them in there & swap back when you sell you probably won't lose a penny.

Even if you do get them recovered which will probably cost somewhere in the £1.5k area, you can still swap them out & sell them when you flog the car, sports seats seem to go for about £2k from the ones that have working airbags so it's not a dead loss

Also you could buy some in a bad state if you're recovering them anyway save some cashola there

[PDKSport]

Are the seat and back cushions not Velcro in and easy to remove? Would Porsche parts not offer these cushions (in various colours) at a much lesser cost than full seats?

I think would look fine.

Cheers.

[jakesmith]

PDKSport said:

Are the seat and back cushions not Velcro in and easy to remove? Would Porsche parts not offer these cushions (in various colours) at a much lesser cost than full seats?

I think would look fine.

Cheers.

Happy to be wrong but I think you'd have more chance of seeing God than doing this, they are also not velcro'd in but held in place with wire rings and are time consuming and fidly to remove
Plus even if you could get covers from Porsche I bet you the cost would be out of this world

[markiii]

Cushion s on the 996 buckets were velcro in

[PJI]

Most good trimmers will be able to change the colour of the leather for you.

[jakesmith]

markiii said:

Cushion s on the 996 buckets were velcro in

Hmmmm not how I remember it when I stripped my 986 Boxster seat down to retro heated seat pads. Was a complete ball ache to get them off with needle nose pliers. Am guessing same part

[markiii]

are we both talking about these

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2...

?

[jakesmith]

No... I was talking about standard seats sorry missed it if we were talking about buckets
If it is buckets surely they are rare and worth buying in any colour and retrimming

[jonindorset]

Probably totally acceptable and in good taste of you were willing to also swap the steering wheel, gear shift knob/gaitor and rear seats.

[Kettmark]

I will certainly do the rear seats in black & take it from there, depending on how the interior looks overall.