Vixen s2 seat refurb

[2Dreamers]

Hi Folks,

Now that Prideaux has blown my cover, I thought I would risk a question.

I would like to refurb seats from fibreglass up and wondered if anybody could recommend a good person/company.

I'm based in Suffolk and realise that I may have to travel although an excellent sprayer, recommended on PH, is only 3 miles away! How lucky is that?!

I was speaking to the owner of a yellow S2 at Lemans ( sorry forgot your name) with impressive seats (!!) perhaps you could let me know who did yours.

TIA

Julie

[octanetorque]

Hi Julie, welcome to the forum - I'm the guy with the Blue Vixen with the red interior - I think I win ultimate unique points for that!

I spotted (Mark's? & Son's) seats too and almost took a spanner to them to do a swap... I've got one GPR bucket, too so I would also really like to know the name of his trimmer!

J

[prideaux]

2Dreamers said:

Hi Folks,

Now that Prideaux has blown my cover, I thought I would risk a question.

I would like to refurb seats from fibreglass up and wondered if anybody could recommend a good person/company.

I'm based in Suffolk and realise that I may have to travel although an excellent sprayer, recommended on PH, is only 3 miles away! How lucky is that?!

I was speaking to the owner of a yellow S2 at Lemans ( sorry forgot your name) with impressive seats (!!) perhaps you could let me know who did yours.

TIA

Julie

Sorry for blowing your cover Julie but it was such a pleasure to meet you both not local but fantastic is Trim Unique and sensible prices best use him now before he has to be vat registered as that will add cost

http://www.trim-unique.co.uk/

Lee and his Wife to be are fantastic at what they do they have done a number of really top cars he has done my seats for the Tuscan and they are just beautiful give him a call the cost of getting them up and down is not massive and you may have other parts that you want done

A

[Grantura MKI]

First of all, welcome to the friendly world of TVRs.
I would suggest doing the whole lot of interior pieces at one time. If you simply do the seats, the rest will look dated.
Do it once and be done is my thought.
Best,
D.

[Slow M]

Welcome Julie,

I hope the car brings you lots of smiles.

Best,
B.

[2Dreamers]

Thanks for responses Folks.
Trim Unique look really impressive and he obviously knows what he is doing.
Hoping there is somebody a bit nearer to Suffolk

Julie

[2Dreamers]

Thanks for responses Folks.
Trim Unique look really impressive and he obviously knows what he is doing.
Hoping there is somebody a bit nearer to Suffolk

Julie

[Warbbby]

As a serial lurker it looks like my cover is also being blown. I confess I own the yellow Vixen although my son thinks that it is his!

The Trim Technician based in Poulton le Fylde near Blackpool upholstered the seats so is about as far away from Suffolk as you can get but I would think any decent company would be able to do a similar job. I gave him a photo of what I thought the seats should look like and asked him replicate it.

I haven't driven any distance with the new seats in but if I was starting again I would probably ask for I little more padding in the seat pad. My son Nathan did 880 miles over the Le Mans weekend and found the seats very comfortable but he is built like the proverbial racing snake. The one problem he found was that he slid down the seat as he was driving and because of the four point seat belts in the car found it difficult to shuffle back up. Some blocks under the front of the seat should help.

It was nice meeting everyone and talking older TVRs and I look forward to seeing everyone and their cars again.

Mark

[prideaux]

Yes great to see you and your Sons car looks fantastic make sure you keep posting we need more nice guys on here
A

[TVRWM]

I can also recommend trim-unique.co.uk

Lee has done an excellent job on my Taimar seats (full retrim, removed rust from frames, respray frames, re-chromed handles etc). Extremely good value and low shipping costs.


Regards,

Rich

TVRWM

[the other tim]

2Dreamers said:

Thanks for responses Folks.
Trim Unique look really impressive and he obviously knows what he is doing.
Hoping there is somebody a bit nearer to Suffolk

Julie

can you pm me a contact number?

Tim

[2Dreamers]

Tim - you have an email
Julie

[prideaux]

Warbbby said:

As a serial lurker it looks like my cover is also being blown. I confess I own the yellow Vixen although my son thinks that it is his!

The Trim Technician based in Poulton le Fylde near Blackpool upholstered the seats so is about as far away from Suffolk as you can get but I would think any decent company would be able to do a similar job. I gave him a photo of what I thought the seats should look like and asked him replicate it.

I haven't driven any distance with the new seats in but if I was starting again I would probably ask for I little more padding in the seat pad. My son Nathan did 880 miles over the Le Mans weekend and found the seats very comfortable but he is built like the proverbial racing snake. The one problem he found was that he slid down the seat as he was driving and because of the four point seat belts in the car found it difficult to shuffle back up. Some blocks under the front of the seat should help.

It was nice meeting everyone and talking older TVRs and I look forward to seeing everyone and their cars again.

Mark

Mark i think you have hit it on the head regards trimming how it looks is important but how it performs is more important
A