Just wondering if anyone has found a good way to repair cigarette burns in cloth seats. I have a 1991 SE that obviously was owned by a smoker at some point. They left this lovely little gift for me, just wondering if there is anything out there to repair cloth seats and what others have used on this style of cloth and color/ Thanks in advance for any help,
Jason.

 

I bet if you took it to a good interior shop they could figure out something. My friends dad just got a G35 and he burned the headliner with his cigarette, and he took it to an interior shop and they fixed it up.

 

get some katzkin

 

Little pricey......this is my daily driver that I won't have 6 months from now hopefully, so I don't want to go all out. Looking for a little bit of investment $15-20 to clean it up. Katzkins won't give me a good return on investment right now.

 

I would say just dont worry about it if you wont have the car for too long.

 

i hear that, even if you were going to keep it, it's still a big investment if your interior is in decent shape and doesn't need replacing. i'd get to the back of the fabric and sew the hole shut which would make it a lot less noticable.

 

It just bugs me looking at it every time I get in the car, plus I know it is unappealing to a prospective buyer in the future. I have seen some cloth seat repair kits available in auto parts stores, just wondering if any of them actually work, or if one style is better for this kind/color of fabric.

 

try some seat covers then if it bugs you. or if its the pass. seat, cover it up witha book for the next 6 months.

 

If you won't have it 6 months from now, I wouldn't bother fixing it.

 

if you can get a tiny bit from under the seats, maybe where it's stapled, and glue it to the back of the fabric so the angle matches up, then maybe iron a patch over the area on the back for reinforcment, the use some tools to mesh it all together to make it look as good as possible for example, scraping the black circle or just cutting it before applying the upholstery platch (not the reinforcment). it could end up looking pretty good if you take your time.

 

If u can settle to less than perfect, cut a leftover piece from somewhere under the seat, wiggle the piece in and glue. Better (=more work) is to raise that fabric off first and set the repair piece aligned on the hole, add fabric glue on its edges. Before all, do smtg for the darker edges, cut off.

This way, it just will still bug u, looking at it every time u get in the car...ehe. Sewing a new seam might hide the whole thing off; thats for pro.

 

jinx!!!!

 

buy a seat from the junky yard

 

Try that OXY stuff.

 

everyone seems to be tossing out 3rd gens now, it's depressing..

 

it's a hole not a stain.

 

Sorry didn't see that pic on a school computer. Yeah don't know what to do about a hole other than new seat.

 

Well, they are now anywhere from ~11 to ~16 years old. Finding a decent one is hard. People move on. But not me.

 

amen brotha

 

I'm keeping mine until 2011. At which time I'm guessing, what with all this wacky technology and all, I'll get the Personal Teleporter 3000.

Beam me up Scotty

 

That would be a sad day for the automotive industry
I dunno if I'd wanna live in a world without cars...

 

Smaller problems first: how this hole in a seat might be teleported to a blck hole... Next I would teleport my flu there.

Wont happen. But. Must live with cars dying on highway for Microsoft upd...

 

if you can find a good interior shop or seat upholdstry place they'll fix it no problem shouldnt be that match its just a little hole

 

if interested, i have a set of cloth seats in great condition and i also have some leather seats. i would sell the cloth seats for 50 and the leather ones for 100. it up to you, or you can try a salvage yard

 

What color are the seats (leather and cloth)?

and do you have rear seats, as well?

 

summer is coming, why not just toss some lounge chairs back there and relax with some beers??? sounds good to me, while your at it replace your floor mats with sand....

 

the repair kit at autozone/pepboys is good, its actually the same type of stuff the pros use. the only problem is that you dont have velour type seats that the cloth has some plush to it. thats what those kits are designed for. you'll be able to cover it up, but it will be as big of a sore thumb once fixed because you'll notice it. i say leave it alone, a prospective buyer should realize it's a 12 yr old car and you probably didnt own it it's whole life, things wear and tear.

 

seat covers....any recommendations where to get some good seat covers that roll to through the middle of the seat from top to bottom?

 

i have all the seats. the front and rear seat(leather) and the front and rear seat( cloth) . both sets are in great cond.

 

Like the entire suspension system?

 

i got mad there for a second until i realized it was you

 

HHHHHHHHAhhhhhehhheeeeee, I just wanna see clips of that on the road with 20's. BTW, where are the E-town clips?

Idea: Remove the vg, tranny, and cv's. Replace it with a vgett with a 300zx tranny, connect it to a custom drive shaft, and then into a j30 rear end. Might as well since you need to come up with something for the rear end.

 

seriously, it would be a good idea, but i'm not THAT mechanically inclined. as it is i already cut it all up and it's been sitting for a year. granted, its because i decided to worry about my house instead of the car. i actually had contemplatd dooing a ve5sp swap. that;s pretty much bolt on bolt off and a bunch of wiring, but im not really into speed, just cruising low and slow. it'll be out next yeat with a 4th gen rear axle in it.
e-town movies were being hosted by jason(n34jz) but it was taking up too much space on his site, so he took it down. email me and i'll email them to you. and i never drove the car with the 20's btw, i put them on and took them off to move the car because they rubbed in the back. got it to my house, put them back on, and it stayed in the yard. i think the wheels have like 20 feet on them, lol.