This you must do before damage
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This you must do before damage
I had to repair the seat on the driver side and discovered what GM should have done. Most of you know how the foam gets cut by the seat rails. If your original seats are in good condition I would suggest taking them apart and put something between the foam and the seat rails. Forgive me if this is old news but I thought I would bring it up for any newbe.
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"This you must do"?!
Good tip. Clear hose tubing, Gorilla Tape and Vette Essentials felt ears are some preventive tools recommended.
Good tip. Clear hose tubing, Gorilla Tape and Vette Essentials felt ears are some preventive tools recommended.
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Good advice. Sure would be a pain to have nice seat covers get ruined when a little preventative action could stop the damage.
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Agreed. Prob is GM over engineered the car in other failure prone areas (dual climate control, column lock, radio backlight, skip-shift, etc) and didn't use quality parts.
To be fair, in 1997 not many cars came with "quality" parts lol.
To be fair, in 1997 not many cars came with "quality" parts lol.
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This is why u have to install the felt at the least. Pulling a seat out is easy an necessary. I have 50k on my vette when seat bolster was cut in two The passenger seat was ok looking at it but, it was failing. The foam was starting to be sliced by the seat rail. Lol weight has a issue with the bolster failing lol
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OK not enough profit in a 38 to 50 thousand dollar car then.
Still in my opinion Corvettes and also Cadillacs should have near zero issues when bought new. GM seems to go out of their way to damage their brands instead of just building a premiere car with minimal issues
Still in my opinion Corvettes and also Cadillacs should have near zero issues when bought new. GM seems to go out of their way to damage their brands instead of just building a premiere car with minimal issues