Recaro Seat Covers?

[mfdellinger]

My Recaro front seats are in need of new covers, driver side is ripped, stained and just worn out, the passenger side is also ripped. The foam underneath still seems tight and holding its shape so hopefully I'm only looking at new covers. But before checking with an upholstery shop, i wanted to check here to see if there are any known options for seat covers available online before getting custom covers made from an upholstery shop.

TIA.

M. Dellinger
2014 FiST
Atlanta, Ga

 

[MKVIIST]

Post up some pictures, lets see how bad it is.

 

[green_henry]

Post up some pictures, lets see how bad it is.

Agree. If it's "just" the seams, they can be repaired (but not inexpensively)

 

[mfdellinger]

Thanks for the replies. Trying to upload photos and I keep getting some 0x80070643 error that photos could not be uploaded....But the rip is across the fabric and not just the seams. If it was just seams I would have taken to upholstery shop to see about getting resewed up...I know there is a driver side back only cover on ebay but since it is not a complete set for driver and passenger that is not an option. And Ford Giant I thought had new recaro covers in stock but they canceled my order as Out of Stock and discontinued part. So, since none of the replies offered an online source of a suitable replacement set that I can do at home, I'll just bite the bullet and get a quote from the upholstery shop, may be they fix the rips in the fabric on the driver side or maybe just that panel but most likely I will get a whole new set. Thanks for all the help.

M. Dellinger

 

[MKVIIST]

Try cropping the photo or make it smaller.

 

[XanRules]

I'd be interested as well - my driver's side leg bolsters and the bottom cushion are looking a bit worse for the wear after having to haul my big dumb legs and ass around for nine years, but so far I have not found any aftermarket or OEM covers that I could use to fix 'em up.

 

[mfdellinger]

I found a local upholstery shop that can do each seat in vinyl with exposed stitching for $500 each. Will not include the ST badging or the 2 tone or anything like that just a basic new vinyl cover, in any color I want, but I'm going with black since the back seat is not being touched. They said there is no way of fixing the ripped seams, it will look like do-do if you try to resew up the seam, but they can deconstruct the seat into their components which they are using as a pattern for the material which saves a bunch of time. Since I still have to drive my car to work I'm doing one seat at a time, I dropped the passenger seat off today and hopefully have it back by the end of the week or early next week.

 

[XanRules]

What's the shop? I'm just curious since I lived in Atlanta for a few years and I'm curious.

Someday I may drop mine off somewhere as well, though my steering wheel is job one as far as upholstery goes.