The front seats on my '97 Accord EX are cracking and have a whole bunch of rips on them. I would like to replace the leather with the same color and maybe a cheaper leather; I am not looking for nothing fancy. What's a fair price to do this? I called Katzskin and they said their kits will not work on cars that came from the factory with leather. If this turns out to be expensive, I just might buy racing seats.

All your inpur is apprecitated, thanks.

 

I know a guy that sells oem-like leather skin for most of the import(i am sure they have one for 5th gen acc), runs about 300 dollar but it's well worth it.

I installed it at my garage almost 3 years ago and it still looks new.

 

Does he have a website?

Thanks.

 

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I installed it at my garage almost 3 years ago and it still looks new.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Link...Link...Link....I would love to do that to my car......

 

used to have his email addy like 3 years ago..but give me sometime to dig it up..

 

Post the info on this thread, I would like to add leather to my 6th gen.


Jason

 

Yeah man, for $300 I'd be very interested in doing that as well.

 

i would also like to know

 

Can't find that guy on ebay, he used to be selling his stuff there..but let me see if i still have his business card or somthing.

comes with instruction and all the hog rings too

 

Man let us know im highly interested.....

 

Same here

 

I konw some people who bought from http://leatherseats.com/ and said the quality was really good and also fairly easy to do it yourself.

 

Thanks for the link. I think I am going to go through them if I don't find anyone cheaper.

 

Yo speedfreak77...who is the jugus incredibus in your avatar ?
woa !

 

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Looks nice but a little bit on the pricey side. Id settle for $300 as opposed to twice that much if possible....

 

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woa !</TD></TR></TABLE>

I have no clue who she is, was searching for pics for a presentation and for some reason she popped up and needless to say I like what I saw and made her my avatar.

 

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Dont you love the internet these days. Somehow whenever you do a search for something you'll get something related to stuff like that in some manner....

 

I can't find anything, it been too long..

well, for those living in socal(OC) and doesnt mind searching the yellow page

his place is located in City of irvine, It's not a street(like ave, blvd, st, dr) it's ends with "CR"

He got some Asian last name also..

By the way is there a way to check paypal record? i think i wired him moola by paypal

 

I think that's Trish Stratus.

 

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keep me posted on the leathers though definately interested

 

I just got off the phone with leatherseats.com. The customer service representative said that if the car came from the factory with leather, their kits will not work. I would have to send them my leather so they can have a templeta to make the new ones.

I guess my only options now is either to find a wreck accord with leather or pay some one to do this; I was quoted $950 which I think is a lot. Any suggestions on reasonable priced racing seats?

 

Did they mention why their kit wouldn't work if your car came with factory leather??

 

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This is what the customer service representative wrote back to me:

"Dear Customer,

Unfortunately, just like most of the companies out there we patterned from the original cloth seat covers and our pattern will not work for replacing original leather. We rarely get requests for this particular setup anymore, but I checked and our patterning dept is willing to pattern the interior for you. However, you would have to remove and send in your factory leather seat covers in order for us to make the pattern and the new interior covers. Let me know if this is an option."

 

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ouch better off getting racing seats......

 

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ouch better off getting racing seats...... </TD></TR></TABLE>

That's the rout I think that I am gonna go. By the way thanks for the info EX-Jay