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  • Twistiva
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    Originally posted by crazyrog17 View Post
    My Dad had his own upholstery shop for years and now does all the seats for the Roush Mustangs/F-150s etc...

    He said $400-$500 is more reasonable for custom pattern, reusing the stock foam. If he could find pre-sewn covers, it'd be considerably cheaper to just install them over the foam.

    Making a custom pattern isn't easy, that's for sure.
    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....

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  • Twistiva
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    Originally posted by link5186 View Post
    That's WAAAY too much! Do you need re-padding on the seats or just upholstery? There are guys here in Indiana who will do a single seat for $60-$90 depending on where you ask. I don't really know about the carpeting, but there's no way I'd pay $600 to redo seats.
    Left seat probably needs to be re-padded; there was a cut in the factory fabric long ago and the sun started to decay the foam underneath. Other seats have had no fabric breaches so I would think the foam is still in decent shape? There's no lumps/holes, etc in the seat cushion padding on the right seat and bench seat.

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  • Aspire
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    Originally posted by SimonTuffGuy View Post
    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.
    x2. Just to give you an example, I pulled a nice set out of an 03 Lancer for $17 each the other week.

    Originally posted by JPT View Post
    $1,000?!?

    Rip off!
    Well, the shop's work may be worth it. It might just not be the right shop to bring a Festiva to.
    Last edited by Aspire; 03-25-2011, 07:11 PM.

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  • crazyrog17
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    My Dad had his own upholstery shop for years and now does all the seats for the Roush Mustangs/F-150s etc...

    He said $400-$500 is more reasonable for custom pattern, reusing the stock foam. If he could find pre-sewn covers, it'd be considerably cheaper to just install them over the foam.

    Making a custom pattern isn't easy, that's for sure.

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  • JPT
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    $1,000?!?

    Rip off!

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  • SimonTuffGuy
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    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.

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  • blkfordsedan
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    Sounds like the guy is either really hurting and trying to make his mortgage payment off you, or he's really busy and doesn't want to mess with it!

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  • link5186
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    That's WAAAY too much! Do you need re-padding on the seats or just upholstery? There are guys here in Indiana who will do a single seat for $60-$90 depending on where you ask. I don't really know about the carpeting, but there's no way I'd pay $600 to redo seats.

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  • doylerl
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    Remove the bench and throw in racing buckets... a lot cheaper... lol... As far as carpet, I think I read a post on here where someone just went to lowes and cut it and formed it themselves.

    Not lowes, but still WAY cheaper...
    Discuss enhancing your Festiva or Aspire interior and exterior (including custom paint, bodywork, seats, etc)
    Last edited by doylerl; 03-25-2011, 05:44 PM.

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  • Twistiva
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    Went to a car upholstery shop yesterday to look into what he'd charge me for re-upholstering my seats (both fronts and my single-piece bench seat) and new carpet with a plastic heel-pad.

    $1000

    When I asked how much just for the seats he said about $600. :bs:

    Is this what you guys would expect? My front seats and carpet is trashed and it's ALL gotta be changed (so the back matches the fronts) but I don't want to spend more than I need to.

    (BTW, I know there are some avenues to buy original carpet kits for far less than $400 but I always HATED the velcro-like power of my Festy carpet. Man, you could lose Jimmy Hoffa in there! Once something is in the carpet it takes an act of God to vaccum it out. Plus, the factory carpet front L/R corners would never stay tucked in under the trim pieces that were designed to hold them up. It's like Ford needed to spend a few bucks more to extend the corners a couple of inches so the trim could hold on to them better. Someone also said on a forum here that carpet kits typically don't ship well. There you have it...my rant against factory carpet. If any of my info is bad, pls let me know.)
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