Should It Cost This Much?

[Twistiva]

Ordered my front and back seat covers from seatcoversunlimited.com this past Sunday. Beige side panels w/ brown centers. Should get them next week. I'll send pic's.

Dude, make sure you post your pix. That site had some COOL looking black/beige combo seats in that 'leatherette' material. CAN'T WAIT until I get something nicer than what I've got....

Twister

[bastille10]

That's cool. What's interesting about this sight is how we all find something
of value, or how we decide what somethings worth. There's not alot of Festivas to pillage around here, much less one's with a tan interior. I know that I could search the forum and someone might have a set or I can buy a set of seats from a '93 GLC ect.
I'll have beautiful custom fit covers for half the price of a full blown upholstery
job, so I'm happy. I just had my Festy sprayed at Maaco - looks phenomenal,
but to the rattle can car sprayers, $500.00 would be outrageous (The "you can paint your car for $50.00" folks) . We're all limited to time, money, equipment,
and the the "hassle factor" of getting various pieces we're looking for. I like and appreciate the car for what it is, so I'll save money on engine swaps, wheels ect. so I'm still money ahead. Don't mean to get on a soapbox....

[graywolf_14]

Shoot that is around what it will cost to change my whole interior in my mustang to black! And that is not dying things....

[bastille10]

Ordered my front and back seat covers from seatcoversunlimited.com this past Sunday. Beige side panels w/ brown centers. Should get them next week. I'll send pic's.

[Twistiva]

What color interior do you have?
I know where there is a very nice complete blue interior.
I can buy just the factory covers and door panels.

bravekozak -

Don't need blue interior, I need brown.

You can buy factory seat covers? I'm interested.

You can buy factory door panels? I'm VERY interested! :help:

Mind PM-ing me with the details?

[Safety Guy]

I believe one can use zip ties in place of hog rings, too. Cheep cheep cheep!

Karl

[bravekozak]

What color interior do you have?
I know where there is a very nice complete blue interior.
I can buy just the factory covers and door panels.
You will have to put the seat covers on yourself.
It's easy if you know how. All you need is a set of hog ring pliers and some hog rings. Just snip off the hog rings on your old seat covers and you will see where all the mounting points are located.

[Twistiva]

One last comment - seatcoversunlimited.com Custom seat covers (front and back for around $400.00). Guy said they could do Festivas no problem. Wide range of materials. I'm ordering next week. My seats are absolutely shredded.

Went to the website, I'm impressed! The leatherette in black with beige trim would look AWESOME in my Festy! Have to rethink this one now....

[Safety Guy]

It should indeed be interesting to see what $400 seat covers look like!

Karl

[crazyrog17]

Interesting. Post pics

[bastille10]

One last comment - seatcoversunlimited.com Custom seat covers (front and back for around $400.00). Guy said they could do Festivas no problem. Wide range of materials. I'm ordering next week. My seats are absolutely shredded.

[Twistiva]

Well, I don't think anyone's going to make the seat covers as an aftermarket item so it'd be a custom replacement job.

Yeah, I understand "custom" in that respect. I just assumed that he'd have a ready-made pattern for a car in which 300,000 units were sold here in the U.S. Just wasn't thinking it through.

I do appreciate everyone's comments on here. You said what I suspected: $1000 is way too much for upholstery and custom carpet. I've had seat covers on my front seats for probably 6-7 years but I'm not a big fan of them because that just hides the real problem and I've never found any that really fit snug. In time I'm going to pursue upholstery (and maybe I'll end up going with OEM carpet) but not from this guy.

Thanks, guys!

[crazyrog17]

Please define "custom pattern"....I take it you mean making a pattern outline of the seats from scratch, right? Wouldn't have thought what I need are "custom patterns" since it's a seat that was used in 300,000 cars sold in the U.S. Guess I'm learning....

Well, I don't think anyone's going to make the seat covers as an aftermarket item so it'd be a custom replacement job.

[Safety Guy]

Cheapest idea: Get good seat covers and take out your carpet and wash it.

Save some money: Find a seamstress who does heavy duty material and take your removed fabric to her to copy in whatever fabric you choose. Get a couple quotes and choose one to do the work. I bet it would be cheaper for you to take the seats apart and then reinstall new sewn fabric to fit. Shouldn't cost more than a couple hundred at most and you'll wind up with really nice new looking seat fabric.

As for carpet, either go the "new" route or find someone here who is selling his used (decent shape) carpet. I took out carpet from my '89L and washed it off with soap and hosed it off. It looks pretty good replacing the nasty carpet in my '91L. If you don't like Festiva carpet, read that "regular carpet DIY thread" and see what you think.

Find seats from another car that will fit and pay someone to weld them in with custom brackets to fit. Shouldn't cost more than a couple hundred, and you will have newer, better seats.

I would never spend $1000 on this stuff...unless I was dirty stinking filthy rich and had nothing better to do...which probably wouldn't happen because I'd have the time and money to do it myself "my way" in my voluminous spare time.

Karl

[Twistiva]

Hitup the junkyard and find a good set of Festiva seats that you can swap in. There was a really nice clean set of seats up for grabs at Ohiostiva last year.

Good idea but the nearest junkyards that are possibilities are almost 100 miles away. Did go to one the other day, just to do some recon. One Festiva, pretty well stripped. In my whole town of ~45,000 there are only 4 Festivas that I know of. Not impossible for me to get seats, but not likely.