appletonn
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I never realised just how roomy these old 944s were...
Have finally decided to get my leather seats revived at http://www.leathercare-renovations.co.uk/ , whose work I have witnessed at first hand and it is superb. I am still toying with the idea of following Ben and John Sims down the lightweight buckets and half cage route and having manhandled those oh so heavy electric thrones out of the car, I can vouch for the savings to be had! Here are some 'before' pics of the seats and I'll post the 'after' ones, once I get them back [
].
As you can see, 137k miles and 18 years of wear plus an indifferent attempt at a 'respray' of the Linen leather in the past, have all left their mark - the same could be said of the owner...[] The seats had clearly been out before as some muppet in the past had rounded off some of the allen bolts holding the seats in - that just provided me with an excuse to pop down to Machine Mart and buy some stud/screw extractors to play with. Simple pleasures....[]
At the same time I have partially dismantled the front end of the car to get rid of the worst of the stone chipped areas - might remove the PU too and get that sprayed at the same time. Stripping the front bits 'n bobs off the car reminded me how enjoyable it is to work on a high quality mecano kit like this - very little evidence of corroded fasteners, with only the front bumper struts needing a squirt of Waxoyl (other rust preventative waxes are available[]) to protect them.
I never realised just how roomy these old 944s were...
Have finally decided to get my leather seats revived at http://www.leathercare-renovations.co.uk/ , whose work I have witnessed at first hand and it is superb. I am still toying with the idea of following Ben and John Sims down the lightweight buckets and half cage route and having manhandled those oh so heavy electric thrones out of the car, I can vouch for the savings to be had! Here are some 'before' pics of the seats and I'll post the 'after' ones, once I get them back [
].
As you can see, 137k miles and 18 years of wear plus an indifferent attempt at a 'respray' of the Linen leather in the past, have all left their mark - the same could be said of the owner...[
] The seats had clearly been out before as some muppet in the past had rounded off some of the allen bolts holding the seats in - that just provided me with an excuse to pop down to Machine Mart and buy some stud/screw extractors to play with. Simple pleasures....[]At the same time I have partially dismantled the front end of the car to get rid of the worst of the stone chipped areas - might remove the PU too and get that sprayed at the same time. Stripping the front bits 'n bobs off the car reminded me how enjoyable it is to work on a high quality mecano kit like this - very little evidence of corroded fasteners, with only the front bumper struts needing a squirt of Waxoyl (other rust preventative waxes are available[
]) to protect them.
