One of my winter projects is repairing the drivers seat in my s2k. The leg bolsters are deflated enough that you can feel the metal frame underneath. I'd like to just replace the damaged sections with new stuff. The big questions are what type of foam to use and where to get it?
Check for upholstery shops in your town. They probably have what you need.
My wife's Subaru seat is the same way. Watching with intere.
The best way would be to replace the entire seat cushion (I'm assuming that it's one piece) but be prepared for serious sticker shock, if it's even available. Cushion foam is pretty high density, so get foam from an automotive upholstery shop not the guys that do couches. If the bolsters are separate from the seat center I'd be looking at putting the bolsters from a scrap passenger seat on the driver's side seat, assuming the bolsters are symmetrical. The foam is probably split where it sits over the frame. You can glue it back together and line the frame pocket with some denim. Use a quality spray contact cement.
A few years ago, there was a Coolatta incident in one of our Accords. I wasn't made aware of this for more than a week. The leather cleaned right up, but we ended up with mold in the foam. I was able to buy a new piece of foam from Honda and I swapped the seat cover over. The foam wasn't all that expensive and the seat felt like new again. It was the easy way out, but it looked and felt perfect.
~$235 from Majestic Honda.
This may be relevant to your interests.
http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/ID/2339/PageID/4204/Project-Starletabusa-3-Sitting-in-the-Cheap-Seats.aspx
MCarp22 wrote: This may be relevant to your interests. http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/ID/2339/PageID/4204/Project-Starletabusa-3-Sitting-in-the-Cheap-Seats.aspx
This looks like a great refrence! Use good junkyard seat foam cut to fit.
I used a high density foam garden kneeler to get a stiffer foam with less displacement. If you go this route my only recommendation is to ensure it is held securly in place with the cover/mounting systems. The pictured insert I used 3M contact spray, and it seemed to have detached after a few months of use.
Merry Christmas!
MCarp22 wrote: This may be relevant to your interests. http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/ID/2339/PageID/4204/Project-Starletabusa-3-Sitting-in-the-Cheap-Seats.aspx
That's a very good thread to follow. The only thing I would add (I worked in the automotive foam industry for 25 years) is that I would attempt to leave as much of the original surface intact as possible. Find a similarly shaped piece and glue it to the base cushion. A lot of the durability of molded urethane foam comes from the higher density surface foam. If searching for donor foam parts in a junkyard try finding some from a leather or vinyl seat. Foam is very sensitive to UV light (the orange colour)and solid upholstery will have protected the foam better than cloth.
Mcarp22, thanks heaps for posting that.
I've got some of those Suzuki seats that I'm looking to fix up. That's going to help me a lot
I'm lucky enough to have 2 pairs, so im hoping I can just take good passenger seat bolsters and refit them to the better if the 2 drivers seat.
If you don't already have them, buy a pair of hog ring pliers and a big bag of hog rings.
Zip ties make a surprisingly good alternative.
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