Re: interior
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:56 pm
I did a course in vehicle interior trim restoration and can well understand where Newtons prices come from, just on the time involved in making and fitting the covers. Add to that their expertise, range of original type fabrics and materials and you can see why they cornered the market.
having said that, for myown cars I'll do it myself if poss. (Obviously if its rare duotone and only they can source the materials there's not much choice), but I'll have a go at using s/h MM interior and making up a usable original set out of old back seats for eg, and as below recovering Series 2 van seats. This was the first one I did when still at college. Not perfect but satisfying to do...
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having said that, for myown cars I'll do it myself if poss. (Obviously if its rare duotone and only they can source the materials there's not much choice), but I'll have a go at using s/h MM interior and making up a usable original set out of old back seats for eg, and as below recovering Series 2 van seats. This was the first one I did when still at college. Not perfect but satisfying to do...
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should take about 5 weeks or so and when priced against other companies there are at the same price, still waiting for one of the big parts suppliers to get back to me its only been 5 days 
, and they wonder why business might be slow 