Interior repair after an accident
Seats, door cards and seat belts after a collision — rebuilding the damaged parts instead of replacing the whole set.
Services Car upholstery
Seat and rear bench restoration
The most common job: a worn driver's seat bolster and a sagging cushion. Cleaning, filling, re-colouring and protecting the whole surface so the colour matches.
The driver's seat bolster wears through first — from getting in and out, a few thousand times a year. Then the cushion gives way, a web of fine cracks appears, and the colour at the contact points turns lighter than the rest. That is not a material fault, just normal wear, and in most cases it can be reversed without replacing the cover.
Restoration makes sense as long as the leather still holds together. If the material is worn right through over a large area or crumbles at the touch, it is more honest to stitch a new cover — and we will say so, rather than take money for something that will come back to us in a year.
How we do it
- Condition assessment: type of leather, depth of the wear, whether the colour can be matched to the rest of the interior.
- Deep cleaning — without it no colour or protector has anything to hold on to.
- Leather softening, if the material has hardened in the sun.
- Filling with leather repair compound and grain matching, so the repaired spot does not stand out as a smooth patch.
- Re-colouring of the entire surface, not just the patch — otherwise the colour will not match.
- Sealing with a protective layer.
What to expect
A restored seat does not look new — it looks looked-after. Deep creases stay, because they are a mark left by shape, not by colour. The wear-through goes, the uneven shade goes, the matt finish comes back.
A typical set of seats spends a few days with us. A single seat can be ready sooner — it depends on how much drying time the successive layers need.
Results of this service
Photos from the workshop. Where we have a shot from before the restoration, the tile turns into a slider.
Car upholstery — other services
Dashboards, consoles and armrests
Leather stitched and bonded onto dashboards, centre consoles, transmission tunnels and armrests. Also corrections after someone else's failed bonding or trimming job.
Convertible soft tops
Repair and restoration of soft tops, rear window replacement — both plexiglass and glass.
Steering wheel re-wrapping
Leather matched to the vehicle, thread in the original colour or contrasting.
Ventilated seats — perforation
Perforation to the factory pattern or made to order.
Seat heating mats — replacement and fitting
Full heating mat replacement including wiring, with removal and refitting of the trim.