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Now that you're all done, here's my advice! I've had decent luck stripping the whole skin and sewing it from the back side to really pull the joint together. Hog rings are still in use, I just sold some seat skins from a 2008 Volvo where I had to clip them all. They sell the rings and the special pliers pretty much anywhere you'd think to look. Here's some before and after on my vinyl seats from 1966:     I got that last one a little too tight. Also Leatherique markets their products as a full restoration solution, I first saw it used on some vintage Jaguar seats. Not sure if it's really any better or worse than the usual but it might be worth researching. And you don't have to settle, I bet you could find a shop to re-make them in the OEM style out of leather for not a massive premium over the off the shelf replacements. It's not like they're a particularly complicated shape.
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That's awesome, I hate that nervous OCD that comes right as you see something that you hope is great but expect to be disappointed. Like last week having a car "fully detailed" only to pop the hood and find the engine untouched. Or when I got a 3 year old car painted and the shop thought I would understand that "scuff and spray" meant "paint right over rock chips instead of filling them". If the dings bother you, a paintless dent removal specialist could probably poke them out now that the paint is all glossy. And orange peel is easily remedied with wet sanding. Both things can be taken care of at any point in the future as well, as time goes by and you decide whether they get more or less annoying with age.
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm old and set in my ways in that I like having my music off the grid. As should be obvious, music is the staff of life for me; my cars basically don't run without a decent sound system (funny enough, I listen to podcasts most of the time while working on the road). I also spent countless hours curating my music files, which means going into the metadata of each and every track and updating it so everything is where I expect it to be by album, song, artist, etc. and always plays in order, which is something that iphones and Androids seem to have trouble doing unless using a subscription service and which is a nightmare to do with an already-existing massive file of mp3s (about 150GB). I feel ya man, I could have written this. I still run Phatnoise Phatboxes in my cars, which came out around 2002 and were mostly discontinued by around 2008. They work with pre-2009 Kenwood head units and allow you 100% custom curation of a music library. Clean tag display and instant access as well. I'll be heartbroken when they die and I can't figure a workaround. I hate how phones don't play albums in chronological order by release date. vv I've replaced them multiple times, and replacements that work keep getting harder and harder to find. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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It just occurred to me that you skipped the opportunity to source a matching R so the car is labeled "BONERVILLE" and now I'm sad. What kind of a goon are you? Car looks loving awesome and I'm very happy for you.
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