Toddy

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I need to figure something out with my interior. My seats are trashed and Im not gonna replace them with 2000 bucks worth of OEM garbage. I am thinking about having an upholstery shop do Black Microfiber on my front and back seats but I don't know how it will look with the rest of the interior since it is Camel Tan. Whats everyone's thoughts. Im also going to replace all of the wood grain with with real carbon fiber. Thanks for the input and ideas guys.

Ken1997TL

An upholstery shop is perfect. You can get higher quality leather, suede, cloth etc of your color and texture choice.

Go crazy and add heated rear seats etc.

They'll have all kinds of options, your budget and imagination being the only real limits.

Toddy

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The only hard part is being down a vehicle since this is my only vehicle. I gotta come up with something though cause the seats look like dog doo

gatrhumpy

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I agree with Ken. You might be able to get multiple quotes, but make sure you have the same materials/services to be accurate.

LoveMyTL-S

Awesome idea, hope it goes well.

dave_ramkumar

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maybe u can do 1 seat at a time...but that will only work if the passanger seat fits where the driver seat goes

TonemanTLS

Depending on the turn around you could borrow or rent a car if the can pull off the job quickly...i think we'll all be at that point some time soon, OEM leather not that good imo.

JL1986

how did your seats get trashed in an 04?

DeathMetal

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Because Acura uses crap leather, read up, it's really quite common.

TonemanTLS

My 07 driver seat already isn't looking too good and i only have 36k and i clean and put leather care on it every 4 months...acura leather is crap

RonJonTL757

i remember reading somewhere about the 04 leather quality was bad and the stitching was also bad, thus in 05 they made some improvments on the leather

KB1Spec

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Here's my real CF interior trims....

myron

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I asked an upholstry shop about my headliner, it's burned with a cigarete and they told me 650-900$, I can't imagine how much they would want for seats. Good luck on that. If you are going with the option, may as well do something unique. 2 tone I say, something like a S4 interior

Ken1997TL

Fixed for accuracy

tl2slow

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you can get some suede fabric from theses people to do the roof....looks great...http://www.distinctivefabric.com/

and you can get brand new leather oem replacement covers from http://www.katzkin.com/main.html .they quoted me 860 for the full set in oem color or you can mix match like suede in the middle and leather on the outside parts for extra cash....i put on a set of oem replacement covers on a lexus gs 300 a while back...takes a while because you need to take off the oem covers but they do sell the clips and tools to put on the new ones....very high quality leather.....

Toddy

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Katzkin told me they didn't have anything for the TL. Personally I think MicroFiber looksmore luxurious than Leather when done right. Only time I can tell. I met with the Service Manager at my dealer about a rust issue I have and I have to meet with the Factory Service Rep when he gets back from his holiday vacation. Maybe I can get them to do the seats too...

But keep giving ideas to me.

tl2slow

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you sure?????? am gonna call them again...they told me they did have an application for our cars...this was earlier this year when i called...

TonemanTLS

I stand corrected- but since we were in the 3g forum i did not specify sorry

Toddy

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Ya unless my rep is an idiot. This was the first thing I looked into when I got my car

DeathMetal

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They sell uber-cheap faux suede that will fade with time. This much I KNOW and required the re-wrap of many interior parts in my last car.

tl2slow

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really i used it on a head liner one time on a civic...it looked nice....what parts did you wrap ????

Toddy

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Im sure the parts he had saw more wear than a headliner though. But I will look into them. Thanks

AckTL05

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I did the headliner myself with suede. Cost about 100 and a lot lot lot of labor. about two days work.

isane4ek

Nice trims!!!

Toddy

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Alright guys

Camel Tan with Black Centers or Black with Camel Tans Centers

Bender

For 2 grand you may as well get comfortable seats while your at it.

CJ0920

Dang, what that all cost ya?

dave_ramkumar

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^ alot...i think hes selling it for like $800 not too sure check his thread...its worth it tho..VERY NICE =D