Leather re-trim

[Ubernoober]

Hi Guys - just a quick 'toe in the water', have any of you had a leather re-trim on your Chim?

If so, what kind of ball park or price range (quality dependent) and timescales to do it are we looking at?

I've had re-carpeting quotes from £500 - £1100 so I'm expecting a lot more for the leather.

Thanks

[slideways]

i should think so quality hide retails at around 300+ per hide and you will need at least 1 1/2 thats before labour costs at a guess £1500+ IMHO

[spyschim]

ive just done mine i think £250 a seat is about right im in middle of doing whole car in black leather very fiddly and a lot of bits that were carpet now leather but about 1&1/2 days work for seats , ive raised my backs by two inches re foamed in that price

[Ubernoober]

Thanks for your responses guys.

spyschim - it sounds like you are doing the work yourself - or are you having it done for you?

[Chequred Demon]

I had the following quote from www.ClassicCarServices.co.uk to re-trim the leather in my Chimaera.

to retrim the 2 seats and headrests will cost £700 plus vat.
to retrim the centre console will cost £300 plus vat.
to retrim the lower dash sections both passenger and drivers side £350

They expected the job to take 7-10 working days and were already booked well into April.
I spoke to Steve Hartley and he seemed to know a lot about TVRs in general.

[spyschim]

Ubernoober said:

Thanks for your responses guys.

spyschim - it sounds like you are doing the work yourself - or are you having it done for you?

yes doing it myself in middle of setting up small trimming buisness mainly as we have a contract to do two camper vans a month so i thought lets try it out on my chim its been great fun and very chuffed with results i will be posting when finished all photos including a storage compartment in rear shelf ( at last somewere to put maps cds etc)am just starting on carpets from scratch as battery now moved to boot and fuses moved to cubby hole behind passenger seat also extended seat backs 2" as they never seemed high enough

[Uncle Fester]

IIRC TVR Power offer this service.