so... went to a place to get a quote to have the rear seat in my civic reupholstered. he quoted me $300 plus the cost of fabric. does that sound about right? sounds kinda steap to me

 

Not to bad. Could be worse. Where did u go?

 

i'd rather not say. i can say that the gentleman was very nice and seemed pretty easy going. wouldn't worry about doing business there, it's just the cost that raised a brow. i figure $60 an hour for automobile related work. $300 tells me he'd be spending 5 hours working on these seats, and i don't see how. i'm even pulling the seats out of the car and dropping them off.

maybe i'm just a low-baller and the price is fair. i don't know. i'm just trying to see if anyone else has experience.

 

well if he is making you new covers there is a lot of time into that. cutting them into templates and tracing them to new fabric. then sewing it all together and sometimes extra filler is needed.

 

i need to find a place i need 2 front seats done. i stoped by wills on vabeach bvld for a quote 1200bucks no thanks

 

wow... what kind of car?

 

80 vw scirocco the seats are recaro's

 

i'm actually looking at cheap ebay ITR seats for the front, and was gonna get the back done to match. are the seats in black avus?

 

there brown now i want to change to all black

 

ya, that's what i'm doing. the material i found is called black avus, and from what i've seen is only available through recaro. i haven't called anyone, but from what i've seen can be had for $38 a yard. for a reference, they told me i'd need 4 yards to do the back seat. he had some samples there that were close, but not the same as i imagined. the stuff i'm talking about is black with kind of a glossy waffle-weave pattern.