Actually the "red" section you refer to is the leather part of the door and it's an insert that pops out.

 

I took the advice of one of the posts and went to check out a few auto upholstery places in town. I picked three at random from the Yellow Pages.

First place said $750 to do both seats with non-perf leather, $900 with perf leather. He said he'd rather not do the door panels but he would give me a quote after he had a chance to take them apart and have a look at how they were constructed.

Second place said $1000 for the seats with perf leather, $400 for the door panels.

Third place looked at it, said about $1000 for both seats, asked where else I'd been, and told me I should take it to the first place.

All places were going to reuse the black bolster leather (which is not torn but is showing some signs of wear after 43,000 miles).

So I'm thinking the seats from the wrecked one aren't that bad a deal. I could probably get (conservatively) $600 for my black seats, which would make both options the same price. If I get better than that, then the new seats become cheaper. I'm also thinking I should be able to get the door panels from the wrecked one for less than $200 each.

The one advantage of going with custom upholstery is that I could get a different color. I was thinking silver instead of red. It would match the '04 console and radio door, and the exterior of the car. It might also be more resistant to fading.

Other opinions?

 

Kind of a moot point now. The wrecker got back to me and said they wanted $2000 for the seats!

Guess it's the upholstery route for me.

 

I installed my '05 doors in my '00 yeaterday. Its sweet. Didn't have any problems at all.

 

Where'd ya get the 05 doors and how much did they cost?

 

the custom leather will be much much better. the leather on the rick's console is much better than that on my seats.

i am considering autoleathers.com. they can do a red/black

 

watzup, dont mind myself posting here, but ahhm i have a question myself, Where would i be able to get the door panels from, is there any oem merchant parts that sell these things? or you just have to look around and see if anyones selling em, like c wagner was saying from wreckage and whereabouts..thanks much any info would be appreciated

 

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Sore subject, but this is what $1k got me in Sept '02. The custom leather has held up flawlessly, while the bolsters were starting to show cracks/creases at about 40k miles(53k miles on them at time of theft ). Factory leather is coated to reduce the consumer's need to condition it as often. The problem is that it is not good for the leather, and eventually cracks. The leather I had put in was cleaned and conditioned on a regular basis, about 3 conditions to 2 cleanings. The gray also helped during the summertime when the car was parked, top down.

Unless you plan on selling your car soon or getting new seats in a couple of years, go custom... even if it's in stock colors. Just my opinion.

 

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