Reconolise / retrim of leather seats. Help!

[marz92]

Chaps.
After 15 years of 'bum' use, my leather seats in the S3 are cracking especially the drivers' side.
Looking at the prospect of having both seats retrimmed/reconolised. As I live in north Wiltshire, hoping to find someone fairly close by. Any thoughts?
The seats are of magnolia finish. Does anybody have any idea what cost I should be looking at too?
Many thanks.

[cuneus]

www.leatherique.org

Will not come off when feeding/cleaning

[kojak]

Not sure where these are...and not sure where Wilts is either Down south somewhere. Lol

AJ Trimming - 01628 530257

or

Matrim Ltd - 01606 834480 (Cheshire though.)

[marz92]

Thanks guys for your help.

[lewistintin]

maybe a bit late, but if you are ashton under lyne based, how about www.ssctrimming.co.uk done my car and its a treat!

[DaveM]

lewistintin said:

done my car and its a treat!

...and the cost? What type of car? I'm thinking the same!

[IPAddis]

topshot valeting said:

hi there ,from a detailers view i would go for the seats to be retrimmed.having the car seats reconnalised will not last that long before it starts cracking again.garages will normally have cars reconnalised as it looks good until they sell the car.if you try and clean and feed the leather you can clean off the paint, they have sprayed on.had a client who went to clean a door handle on his rolls with leather cleaner and feed from rolls royce and it took the colour out.due to some time in its life someone had it connalised.so now he has a dark patch where it should be light.i know this may not be the cheap option but long term you will see the difference.i hope this is of some help martin

This must be what they did to my car. Looked nice, supple leather until I used soap flakes (recommended by almost everyone) to clean them. Result = lots of flakey paint. Scraped the whole lot off, looks much better now.

Ian A.

[jvaughan]

Take a look at the archives, I had my seats on my 400SE done in South Wales. Took just over a week to do, and it was re-trimmed with new magnolia full hide.
Total cost was £800 inc VAT.
I also had my door cards trimmed and head restraints in the same leather for an extra £200.
There are Pix too in the archive.

If you want to have a look at the finished seats, i live in Andover

Jason

[lewistintin]

Cost me £800 but that leather I got is riduculously expensive. It was special smooth leather and cost me a fair bit more. Lasted for 16months and about 16,000 mniles and still looked like new, so i was very happy.