Restoring the 911 Seats
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- Опубліковано 3 лют 2020
- The ideal of a car interior, in the eighties that was a black cave. Chrome was the most uncool thing imaginable.
The interior of my 87 Carrera was beginning to show some wear and tear - with little time left to react to protect it from further decay. I repaired some holes and broken seams, touched up the leather and sealed it all for the years to come, seat rails and brackets were repainted.
ColourLock products such as Liquid Leather ("Flüssigleder") and Colour Fresh were instrumental to get the job done.
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"If they don't put a smile on your face, they're pointless."
Your neighbour is very wise! Love the workmanship on display here.
Yes, he is!
Another great production you can be proud of - right balance of visual & commentary. Potential to develop this into one of the leading restoration , porsche classics channel . One of the distinguishing channel strengths is your attention to detail, craftsmanship, products & tools.
Thanks, mate. Sooooooo good to read this.
I agree!
I like the way you are doing the restoration. Don’t care about others opinion. You are on the right way.
Thanks!
It’s great to get that sort of confirmation.
It’s rare to stumble across a channel as good as this, keep up the good work!
Glad you like it, mate!
Wonderful! Thank you so much for this video- especially your repair of the leatherette vertical door edges.
You’re very welcome. Glad you liked it!
You make me miss my 76 Carrera Targa so much, With Streten (M539) doing the BMW's, now I have found my Porsche guy. Thank you.
Thanks, John.
Honoured to be your Porsche guy.
So thoughtful. Love this.
Your calm is an inspiration, would totally tackle this after watching. Beautiful work.
Thanks very much, I like it if people appreciate the calm of my films.
The Werner Herzog of car restaurations! 😉
Thank you for the videos. Very helpful and informative. I purchased an 87’ and will be doing many of the same projects. Good to have a guide. I removed the seats as well and encounter a similar level of grime! Lol
Thanks, Rick. Glad you like it.
Under-seat grime, unlike say engine grime, has that touch of biology which I find particularly disgusting. 😆
Behold... Golden hands and skill at work just amazing !
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Again... meticulous, excellent work. Obviously, a labor of love... on my favorite car of all time!
Yes, it really is a wonderful piece of engineering and design.
Thanks for commenting!
@@GreasyFingers My pleasure! Again, I envy you... the 70's/80's model Porsche 911 is the car of my dreams.
Now, they're too expensive to purchase a restored model outright, and I have neither the time nor the skills to find an old one and do it myself as excellent as you have obviously done. I'm a perfectionist... so anything less than perfectly restored would not even remotely be an option for me.
Anyway, congrats... and by all means... ENJOY! 🙂
@@4GuitarTrance I guess we're two of a kind.
Wieder ein feines Video. Klasse!
Thanks for sharing!
I learnt so many techniques from your work. Very helpful for me to work on my 1994 e36 coupe. 👍🏼
Very welcome. Hope you can keep it on the road for long.
@@GreasyFingers thanks! can’t wait to see your new videos :)
I am amazed. I like to fix things like you. It’s not always fun to just remember and replace with parts when you can with a little work repair to like new.
Exactly, Jay! What can be saved, must be saved.
Absolutely fantastic video! Greetings from Switzerland
Many thanks, Enrico. I’m glad you like it. Please share the channel with your friends.
Love your narrative sir!
Thanks, Michael!
Love your practical approach. You inspired me to look for an oldtimer cooperative...or maybe found one myself. Ah, the perfect guys club: one has a wooden Dragon sloop, the other an AN-2, the next guy a Porsche 356 or 911 and so on. Membership gets you four days a year with each! Don´t even have time for more...
Good news, Andreas! Where’s that cooperative? Sounds like a big city thing ...?
@@GreasyFingers already joined an oldtimer club where I live (an hour north of Frankfurt am Main). Am still mulling over whether to go with a 356 or a 911. I´m 66 years old and finally have time and money. The cooperative idea came to mind because so many of my acquaintances have one or the other but have their toys locked up...what a shame! A heated barn with a level concrete floor is what I `m looking for now to set up shop. Keep your fingers crossed!
Great work!
Thanks!
I agree with your patina definition!
Great job well done mate.
Thanks, David!
wonderfull job, felicitaciones...
Thanks, Alejandro.
well done !
Thanks, mate!
Great vid. To get the grain of the leather "putty" just take a scrap piece of leather, or even vinyl that has a leather grain, and press it in to the soft putty before it dries and it will leave the grain in it when it dries.
Thanks for the tip, Jeff.
I‘m going to tackle this in the Giulia project, once the interior goes back in.
The intro made me grin. Reminded me of George's channel 'Soup Classic Motoring'. Great vid!
Yeah, it was inspired by George.
I‘m a fan too.
Hallo ein schönes Video 👍👍👍 im Detail die kleinen Fehler super behoben. Da hätte ich auch Lust zu😉.... Bin gespannt was noch kommt...Mit freundlichen Grüße aus dem Ruhrgebiet Kai
Vielen herzlichen Dank, Kai. Als nächstes kommt der Fensterheber am Carrera raus, danach gibt’s eine Überraschung: ein neues Auto!
Greasy Fingers Halle ja da bin ich mal gespannt was kommt freue mich schon drauf!!! Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem Ruhrgebiet Kai
Great vid. I don't have to do any of this to the reddish seats on my 1984 Carrera Cabrio yet BUt very useful info. I hate the plastic seat back release catches on the side of the upright seat squab. They are a push fit with small metal sprimg clips but the plastic is weak.
Thanks, mate!
Yeah, these parts are easily broken and hard to get.
I love your videos
Thanks, Daniel!
I should tell you, as a sort of support group, that I have this disease Mr. Greasy Fingers.
The same like me?
@@GreasyFingers Yes. Once I see something that just isn't right, it has to be redone
Άψογος....you are awesome
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Totally crazy! But so cool to watch. If I just had the proper space to dismantle my 86 Carrera Cabrio.
Thanks, Stefan. Yeah, I can see that point.
"No carpet was harmed in the production of this video" - lol
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Another wonderful video 👌 could you tell me the make of the paint gun? Looks so useful for small touch ups.
Thanks, Andy.
That’s an Anest Iwata LPH80.
fantastic! can you please supply the model of the Anest Iwata airbrush that your using? Rock on! Thanks in advance.
Thanks, Ronald. That’s a HP-TH Hi-Line.
Today's chillout video ,I've sold lots of the red rear seat buttons and the trim under seat covering the motors and so many seat switches 🙄
Can't say enough good things about your content. I will be shamelessly using your style and format for my channel. Still waiting on the 911 for my build...:(
You gotta kiss your Beetle and it’s gonna become a 911.
Shame would be inappropriate, just do it!
Exact year and colour with the exact damages. I will tackle next summer. How many hours? Too bad you did show how to remove the seat from the car.
Hopefully you will make video showing. BTW. Great video. Keep them coming.
Thanks, Roy.
Removing the seats is almost too easy to mention. Just loosen four screws and you’re done.
Note that the Carreras don’t have simple nuts to keep the seats in place, but small steel bars with threads, I suppose as a measure of crash safety.
When I originally bought my '83 sc I treated my dry, brown leather seats with bees wax and now find the leather has become quite stiff. I have since purchased a reputable leather treatment but it won't absorb into the leather because of the wax.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Hello Hugh. I’ve no idea really.
I used to treat my motorbike leather with bee wax and I remember it having the same stiffening effect.
Just guessing, but maybe putting an absorbent cloth over it and gently applying some heat?
Wow, now I feel motivated to do my upholstery work though it will be much more work with my poor looking Turbo seats😬
Not to forget my steering wheel which is already way beyond good patina😅
Thanks, mate.
I love it when they motivate people to do stuff themselves.
@@GreasyFingers I do everything myself, though I’m far away from your professionalism.. It’s more "I don’t know nothing, but do everything.." But indeed, there are missions waiting for me I’m still a little afraid of.
If you like, feel free to have a glance at my channel! I hope it doesn’t embarrass you to see how I carry out my reparations😬
@@911thingstorepair Ohhh, ein Deutscher! Abonniert. 😊
@@GreasyFingers 🙏🏻 Same Same! Echt tolle Videos mit viel Liebe zum Detail. Womit filmst du?
I welded new "spikes" to both of my seats before I repainted the frames.
Nice!
Hello. Great video! I would like to know where did you get the black paint for the airbrushes to paint the metal brackets? 2:55
Hi Juan. Thanks!
I buy this from a local web shop, could also be Amazon.
@@GreasyFingers do you have email information for contacting? I would like to attempt this project myself and you’ve inspired me! Haha
Gute Arbeit. Was hast du zum einfärben genutzt ?
Danke! Ich habe die Produkte von Lederzentrum.de benutzt. 👋🏻
Hi there I have a 996 with black leather in need of a refresh would you mind linking each product please? Thank you
Hello Chris. I’m using the Colourlock products of lederzentrum.de.
Their site is in German, but I’m sure Google translator is all you need to get the point.
If you have specific questions, just ask ...
@@GreasyFingers thank you so much for taking the time to reply!
Clamps are called hog ties, u can get em on Amazon. Great for tying seats down
Thanks, Dan!
@@GreasyFingers There is a tool called "hog-ring pliers" that is used to install the "hog rings". You place the hog ring in the pliers' jaws, encircle the seat's wires/springs with the hog ring and squeeze the handle of the pliers, which closes the hog ring.
What chemicals do you use to clean the seats? Thanks
I bought a kit of the company Lederzentrum which contained a shampoo.
F A N T A S T I S C H !
Danke, Marcel! Schön, wenn’s Dir gefallen hat.
Oh and what's the make of the small delicate airbrush please?
The airbrush is an IWATA.
It’s prime feature is having virtually no overspray which qualifies it for repair jobs. Maybe I’ll show it one more time when I do the fender repair.
Let me know if you need additional spec.
@@GreasyFingers Actually, I would be interested in what model IWATA it is and with what compressor you are running it?
Tatsächlich würde mich interessieren, um welches IWATA Modell es sich handelt und mit welchem Kompressor sie es betreiben?
@@simonzeitter1936 Hallo Simon. Die große ist eine Iwata LPH80, die kleine eine Iwata Hi Line | HP TH. Der Kompressor ist low budget von Amazon.
This is what is necessary.
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It’s like you are returning the car to it’s factory condition, but probably better.
Ahhhh, maybe not better. I’d say „not too much worse“.
Ta 911 et très jolie le jour que tu la vend fait moi signe car j'aimerais te l'acheter merci a toi
Merci, Jose.
Celui-ci n'est pas à vendre, mais j'en fais 2-3 par an de la même qualité. Contacte-moi si tu es intéressé.
Hog ring plyers brother get some
Your videos are very nice and I am with you with most of your restaurations. But my experiences with artificial leather are bad. You need to get this done properly but abgeatmet reupholsterer, in German a Autosattlerei. There are good ones.
Appreciate you comment, mate.
At the end of the day you have to decide what to spend your money for and perfect leather is none of my priorities.
We call those little curved metal “C” hog rings.
Thanks, Sean.
I like the video was 19:11 long.
Biologic material?!? Please tell me it was hair
Do you know the Top Gear episode with Mr. Manlove?
"biological material".... I startled my dog laughing so loud. IYKYK
Not everyone smoked in the 80s just the real scummy stinky ones
Like myself. 😊
So eine spezielle Zange für die Polsterklammern ist wirklich hilfreich und auch nur 15…20€ teuer.
Von den meisten Zeug vom Lederzentrum halte ich wenig, ist eher nur oberflächliche Kosmetik.
Erfahrung der letzten 15 Jahre bei mir.
Danke für den Hinweis.
Lederzentrum hat eine Profi- und eine Amateurproduktlinie.
I like your videos but I am not with you went it comes to artificial leather glue. Bring it to angoss car reupholstered and get it repaired properly.