Full seat rebuild review
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mstromquist (06-10-2019)
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I live in small town rural Texas, we have a John Deere dealership in the next town over! LOL Good point on calling a dealership, I think there is a BMW dealer not too far down the road. Ferrari/Mclaren? Hundreds of miles away if not more. I did look up a shop that posted pics of a Vette seat that they say they did and it looks tight. I may give them a shout, only about 60 miles away. Good excuse for a day trip in the Vette. Anyway, thanks for the idea of contacting a dealership, might work.
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Here's a pic of my oem seat in almost the same lighting. Someone asked about the color of the covers. I do think the ridies covers are slightly darker. You can can also see how the oem side bolster is a bit longer and covers the hinges. It also looks line the ridies thread color is more gold than oem. I’m ok with it, but if you are buying ridies covers you may want to get samples of their thread colors as well because they told me that this would be identical to oem and it is clearly not.
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What gets me with the font is it's wrong. It's too tall. That one just sticks out badly to me. The quality is there though, those replacements sure look solid save for the couple of minor gripes.
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Nothing is ever perfectly oem. Stitching is slightly more gold, font perhaps a millimeter bigger, but I’d take these new covers over the shitty gm ones any day though.