[T3] New up date

[Jim Adney]

On 1 Jan 2013 at 17:53, Dennis Stiefel wrote:

> I may have to go back later and take the front seats back apart and put
> some better stuffing in them.  I can already tell by no more than I
> have driven it that I will have back issues if I don't.  Right now they
> just have the original horse hair under them. 

The OG stuff is glued together coir, the fibrous stuff under the 
outer husk of a coconut. By now, most of that stuff is pretty broken 
down, and whatever is left will probably disintegrate pretty quickly 
once you start to drive that car.

You'll need to do something new in there, if only to keep the spring 
wires from wearing thru your new seat covers. I always start with a 
layer of really good carpet scrap, sewn around the outer wire rim 
with the nap side down, then some cushioning from a upholestry shop. 
I used to be able to buy some green fiber stuff that didn't look all 
that different from the OG stuff, and then maybe a little foam rubber 
over that.

One car I bought used and been completely redone with foam. The 
spring wires had eaten all the way thru the foam so that the foam 
ended up in rectangular chunks on the floor. Then the wires destroyed 
the seat covers.

It pays to look around and consider a lot of options. Doing a decent 
job takes time and effort, so you don't want it to end up wasted.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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