Seat and rear bench restoration
The most common job: a worn driver's seat bolster and a sagging cushion. Cleaning, filling, re-colouring and protecting the whole surface so the colour matches.
Services Car upholstery
Ventilated seats — perforation
Perforation to the factory pattern or made to order.
Ventilated seats have thousands of holes in the cover for the air to pass through. In restoration this is not a cosmetic detail: sealing the perforation with paint or filler shuts the ventilation down, and the seat then looks good and doesn't work.
We do two things: restore such seats keeping the holes clear, and perforate new covers — to the factory pattern or to a pattern ordered by the customer.
How we do it
- Agreeing the pattern: hole density, hole diameter, layout of the panels.
- Punching the leather to the agreed pattern.
- Perforation — holes made after colouring, not before, so the finish doesn't close them up.
- Checking the airflow once the seat is reassembled.
Restoring existing seats
The most common problem we see here is a seat "restored" somewhere else: the colour is even, but the ventilation has stopped working because the paint went into the holes. Clearing that perforation is sometimes possible, but not always — occasionally the finish has to be stripped and the job done from scratch.
If your car has ventilated seats, mention it when asking for a quote. It changes the process, not just the price.
Car upholstery — other services
Interior repair after an accident
Seats, door cards and seat belts after a collision — rebuilding the damaged parts instead of replacing the whole set.
Dashboards, consoles and armrests
Leather stitched and bonded onto dashboards, centre consoles, transmission tunnels and armrests. Also corrections after someone else's failed bonding or trimming job.
Convertible soft tops
Repair and restoration of soft tops, rear window replacement — both plexiglass and glass.
Steering wheel re-wrapping
Leather matched to the vehicle, thread in the original colour or contrasting.
Seat heating mats — replacement and fitting
Full heating mat replacement including wiring, with removal and refitting of the trim.