Upholstery and interior trim

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Upholstery and interior trim

Upholstery is the soft part of the inside of your car: the covers on the seats, the padding underneath them, the panels on the doors, the fabric lining glued to the roof, and the carpets. It wears out and comes apart long before the mechanical car does, and in this climate the heat and the sun are what do it — glue lets go and the roof lining drops onto your head, seat fabric splits along a seam, and a cracked plastic trim piece rattles for years. This is the work that fixes that: a single torn seam sewn, one seat recovered to match the rest, a headliner taken out and re-covered, or a whole interior re-trimmed in a material you choose.

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Start here

  1. 1Describe what the car is doing, in your words
  2. 2We investigate it and send you the findings and the price
  3. 3You approve each line before anything is done

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Sounds like your car?

Find the line closest to what your car is doing. You do not need the name of the job — the symptom is carried into the booking form with it, and every line below starts at the same place: what we check, and how the work is done.

Symptom, in your words Carries into the booking form

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What is included

  1. 2.1Torn seams restitched, and worn panels of a seat cover replaced individually rather than the whole seat being condemned
  2. 2.2Seat foam rebuilt where the seat has collapsed and lost its shape, because a new cover over flattened foam still feels wrong
  3. 2.3A single seat recovered to match the others, with the material and grain compared against your own seats before anything is cut
  4. 2.4A full interior re-trim in fabric, vinyl or leather in a material and colour you choose and can see and feel first
  5. 2.5Headliner removed, the old fabric and perished foam stripped off the board and the board re-covered, which is the only permanent fix for a drooping roof
  6. 2.6Sun visors, pillar trims and grab handles re-covered to match the headliner, so the roof does not end up two shades
  7. 2.7Door panel inserts recovered and loose or cracked panels refitted, including the clips that hold them, so they sit flat and stop rattling
  8. 2.8Carpets and boot lining replaced or deep cleaned, and the floor underneath checked for damp while they are out
  9. 2.9Cigarette burns, tears and cuts repaired, or the affected panel replaced where a repair would be visible
  10. 2.10Seat belts, seat rails and anything electrical in the seat refitted and checked working before the car goes back
The inside of the workshop looking out through the open front onto the street.

This work is done in this workshop, and nothing on your car is touched until you know what we found and what it costs.

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What happens

  1. 3.1

    Repair, recover or replace — we say which, and why

    These are three different jobs at three very different prices, and picking the wrong one is how people overspend. A split seam is sewn. A cover that is worn through or burnt has that panel of it replaced, or the seat recovered. A seat whose foam has collapsed needs the foam rebuilt as well, because a new cover on dead foam looks right and feels wrong. We show you which of the three yours is and quote them where more than one is genuinely possible.

  2. 3.2

    Matching is decided before anything is cut

    Recovering one seat in a car is the hardest job to get right, because the material has to match seats that have had years of sun on them. You see and feel the material against your own seat, in daylight, before we cut it. If we do not think a single seat will match closely enough to look deliberate, we will tell you that and offer the alternative — doing the pair, or the row — instead of doing the cheap version and hoping you do not notice.

  3. 3.3

    A headliner is fixed by taking it out, not by gluing it back up

    A drooping roof lining is not a glue failure at the surface; it is the thin foam behind the fabric turning to powder in the heat, so there is nothing left for glue to hold on to. The only lasting repair is to take the board out of the car, strip the old fabric and the perished foam off it entirely, and re-cover it. Anyone offering to spray glue up into a sagging roof is selling you a repair that will be back down within one summer.

  4. 3.4

    What comes out gets checked while it is out

    With the carpet up and the seats out, the floor of the car is visible for the first time in years, so we look at it: damp under the mat, rust starting in a footwell, a leaking seal or a water stain. If we find any of that we tell you, because the carpet will simply hide it again. Seat belts, seat rails and any wiring in the seat are refitted to their proper fixings and checked working before the car is handed back.

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Common questions

Can you fix one seat, or does the whole car have to be done?

One seat, one panel of one seat, or the whole interior — all three are real options and we quote them separately. The only thing that decides it is matching. Sun-aged material is a different shade from new material of the same name, so on an older car a single seat can end up looking newer than the ones beside it. We will hold the material against your seat in daylight and tell you honestly what it will look like before you commit to anything.

My roof lining keeps coming down. Can it just be glued?

No, and it will keep coming down as long as anyone keeps trying. The fabric is not failing — the thin foam layer bonded to the back of it has crumbled in the heat, so glue is being asked to stick fabric to powder. Pins and sprayed glue buy a few weeks. The board has to come out of the car, be stripped completely and re-covered, and then it stays up.

Will changing the interior to leather affect the car when I sell it?

A buyer will be able to tell a re-trim from a factory leather interior, so the honest framing is that this is a change you make because you want to live with it, not an investment that pays itself back. What we can do is make it a good one: material you have chosen and felt, seams that follow the original pattern, and the seat electrics and belts refitted correctly. We will also tell you before you start if your seats have airbags in them, because that changes what can be done to those panels.

The car smells and cleaning has not fixed it. What now?

A smell that survives a proper clean is almost always water that got in and never dried — under the carpet, in the foam of the seat base, or in the boot floor where a spare wheel well collects it. Masking it with a fragrance is a waste of your money. The fix is to lift the carpet, find out where the water came in and dry or replace what is soaked, and that is a job we can take on with the trim out. If it turns out to be a leaking seal or a blocked drain, that is a separate repair and we will tell you what it involves.

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