mr-charisma wrote:Max, is there any chance you could do a little writeup on how you go about making repairs to the damaged foam?
Foam damage should be fixed prior to installation of the new custom retrims.
Otherwise this will cause excessive wear on the leather due to rubbing against the metal seat frame.
Normally, either chunk of the foam is missing or parts of the foam are very loose or thin.
Cut off any of the loose or thin foam.
The gap needs to be filled by another type of foam.
Mostly the wear on the foam will be on the bolsters, especially driver right seat bottom bolster.
What I do normally is to wrap the frame underneath the foam with some bubble wrap, two-three turns. This improves the frame support and reduces the chance of further foam damage in the future.
After wrapping, fill out the missing parts with some other foam. Replacement foam cant be too soft like a sponge. Need to find a harder compound. Not easy to find a harder compound foam unfortunately.
What I used to do is to use some cardboard, roll it few of them and fill out the gap.
Currently I have heaps of spare seats, so I have the luxury to be able to sacrifice a set and use the foam to fix damaged seats.
Once the gap is filled, further line of soft foam needs to be glued over the top of the whole bolster.
This will help keeping the shape as normal. Pics of the fixed foam damage below,
Regards
Max Ungun
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