Installing an aftermarket Leather Interior on your 3000GT seats
This guide can be found here:
http://deftracing.com/leather_interior_installation.htm
I drive a '95 3000GT, and I just realized this car is over 10 years old now. Now, I keep it in pretty good shape, watch the paint, make sure it is waxed professionally with all the tips the guys at Meguiar's could give me, etc.
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I take care of the engine as well as possible, change the oil, etc. Maintenance is definitely on my mind. But there's an odd thing about my cars leather.. after 10+ years, it's just been around too long. It's do ne... no leather conditioner will work on this puppy. I never saw it ‘brand new'. As far as I know, it's pretty nice compared… to, well, 4 years ago when I bought it. Man was I wrong.
The fact is leather can be as nice as possible from the factory, but use and wear and tear are unavoidable, and your seats become the glaring indicator of just how old your car really is. This show car got “Is that new” all the time… when the doors are closed. I got “what year is this” much more often with the doors open… because they could tell by the seats it was getting pretty old, as my seats became torn and tattered.
Interior wasn't even in my top 10 things to do…
I'm not sure why I didn't think of my interior earlier. It's not something you think of first off in this world of body kits and neon lights… but it should be. It's such an incredibly omni-present piece to your cars appearance. Sure, YOU don't see them so much when you are seated, but you sure as hell feel them in comfort every moment of the drive, and every time anyone else looks at your car, be it a show or just driving around, it WILL be seen just as much as that front lip you bought… probably more.
So why don't people do a new leather installation? We'll, it's going to cost more than that front lip… and I think the main reason is the installation is going to cost a bunch on top of it.
Well, we're all a bunch of do-it-yourself guys, and watching someone do an installation on our car is for someone else. We want to install it ourselves… and you can.
That's where aftermarket leather interiors come in.
You can get a substantially better price on top of the line leather that any “professional” installer would be using, and all we have to do is spend a little time doing it ourselves. It can be any color, any style, different color sticking, two tone… and best of all it uses your stock, very comfy seats as the base, and makes them comfortable again. (Yes, they get A LOT more comfortable… after installing mine the difference was amazing… I had no idea how broken down my seats were.
The big thing holding us back is… can we do it ourselves? I thought of a leather install like my transmission… just not something I want to touch because I know nothing about it, and if I screw it up, what then? Well, luckily I had my hand held through the beginning, and I must say, it got me to make the first snip, but I really didn't need it. And now that I know, I'm going to tell you too, because it really isn't that hard, and for the benefits, it is a NO BRAINER.