Interior Re-trimmers

[silkishuge]

Hi,

This is my first post on this forum. My other half spends his time on Nissansilvia forums. Perhaps I should start my own username......

We had previously done a little research on where we should get our car re-trimmed. We have just finished improving most of the exterior of the car and are just waiting for the rims to arrive. Its been 10 weeks now but it should be getting here anytime soon. According to my worse half, Charles from JDM is reliable and honest.

Anyway, the parts we were looking to re-trim are front and rear seats, the dash, the pillars and the roof, the centre console. Might do the carpets as well. Can someone please offer recomendations as to where a good, reliable and not over priced place to get this done. The budget we have is set to a upper limit of $5,000. Only the seats are to be re-trimmed in leather, but everything else is vinyl.

The colour I was a combination of red and black. red door trims, glove box, gear boot and brake cover. The seats will be red in the centre and black on the outside of the seats. Oh, by the way, the car is a Nissan 180sx. What do you think of this combination? I will appreciate all constructive comments.

Thanks,

Mie

[khunjeng]

ok there is a place in Richmond that is highly recomended. seen some really good jobs in my FTO club...door trims, seats dashes etc. can't rem. the name...like Melbounre Dash or richmond dash or something...take ur car down and they tell u the deal...costs were good also. sorry can't remember the name.

[gt-t_r34]

there is also a place in dandenong i think its on plunket road

[Coupe-This]

what area are you in ? there is a momo/recaro stockist, that fully retrim seats in leather, and everything, use a1 retrimmers and quality is good, seen a little bit of their work. They are on cheltnmen road moorabbin, near southland.

there is also another place in moorabbin called blackmans, although i havent seen any of there work, they have a godamn big workshop. And im sure they would have a webaddress on the internet. Plus if your looking for a perfect showcar standards, you will most likely pay more than what your budgeting for, as in leather i think its about 1.5 per front seat and 2 for the rear, but these are just rough prices i have gotten before, never an actual quote.

So ring up, go look at their workshop, ask to enter and have a look at some of the work being done.

Good luck...

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[silkishuge]

hmmmm, thank you for all your responses.

I am located in Box Hill South. I will have to travel quite a bit to get to those places.

I think I have heard of Blackmans. They do the leather re-trims for Mazda at Moorabin. The sales people at Mazda said that they were quite good and it cost $2,500 to re-trim all the seats in leather.

Coupe-This, thank you for the advice. I think I will have to increase the budget........ Will $5,000 get me a middle range quality job for the re-trimming the entire interior? I better talk this over with him. We did not think it would cost that much.

Mie

[khunjeng]

As for the seats I just saw my mates FTO with new front/back seats and door trims in read leather from the place in Richmond...was damn sweet. was real/high quality leather not crapo letherette for 500. I think it cost him about 1500 all up.

Unique Auto Interiors

140 Cromwell St

Collingwood

VIC, 3066

Australia

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This place has seom stuff for R33s and I have head good things about the re-trims for the dash

Croydon

http://www.dashboardcentre.com.au/

[sammus]

car trims in burwood. they did a good yet simple job for me. they always have top quality cars in the workshop having work done.

[paulr33]

skyline gtr seats are fairly nice and give it u bit of an upgrade at a fraction of the cost. im pretty sure they dont have skyline written on them

[Jamezilla]

Top notch work here - but don't expect it to be cheap:

http://www.garryblackmantrimming.com/

A friend's cousin runs a trimmer in Thomastown (getting details for you). They regularly show up at Autosalon etc and were the ones who did that Valiant Regal for the radio station a while back. Good quality.

[inark]

what area are you in ? there is a momo/recaro stockist, that fully retrim seats in leather, and everything, use a1 retrimmers and quality is good, seen a little bit of their work. They are on cheltnmen road moorabbin, near southland.

there is also another place in moorabbin called blackmans, although i havent seen any of there work, they have a godamn big workshop. And im sure they would have a webaddress on the internet. Plus if your looking for a perfect showcar standards, you will most likely pay more than what your budgeting for, as in leather i think its about 1.5 per front seat and 2 for the rear, but these are just rough prices i have gotten before, never an actual quote.

So ring up, go look at their workshop, ask to enter and have a look at some of the work being done.

Good luck...

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the momo/recaro ones on chesterville road... (if its the same one im thinking of... its been there for years now before the Waves pool heading from south road to southland or have they moved?).

Blackmans are 5 star quality... not only mazda but BMW and Mercedes all trim their cars there... not to mention almost every car manufacturer in the area. They retrimmed my uncles mates hot rod... awesome job and the leather is so soft and comfy.

[Ant97GTR]

Yep two thumbs up for garry blackman in richmond....retrimmed my steering wheel, gearstick and handbrake boots in alcantra.

Top work!

[46n2]

how much is was it to trim your steering wheel ant?

[silkishuge]

Yep two thumbs up for garry blackman in richmond....retrimmed my steering wheel, gearstick and handbrake boots in alcantra.

Top work!

Hi ant, how much did it cost you all up for the retrim?

Jon

[silkishuge]

skyline gtr seats are fairly nice and give it u bit of an upgrade at a fraction of the cost. im pretty sure they dont have skyline written on them

I have got S15 seats in a 180sx. They are a good improvement to the stock ones with alot more back support and look much better for a retrim.

[silkishuge]

Top notch work here - but don't expect it to be cheap:

http://www.garryblackmantrimming.com/

A friend's cousin runs a trimmer in Thomastown (getting details for you). They regularly show up at Autosalon etc and were the ones who did that Valiant Regal for the radio station a while back. Good quality.

Thanks for the link. I have heard good things about them and yah, the work they do is not cheap, but you get what you pay for.

Jon

[silkishuge]

car trims in burwood. they did a good yet simple job for me. they always have top quality cars in the workshop having work done.

Burwood is near where I live, might give drive over to have a look at some of their work. Thanks mate.

khunjeng, $1,500 for the work done is cheap, definately worth investigating. Thanks.

Jon

[Ant97GTR]

Well all up including the gearstick/handbrake boots as well as the steering whell it was around 400-500 mark. Bare in mind that I had it done in alcantra which is one of the most expensive materials.....normal leather would be a lot cheaper I'd imagine.

All I can say is that it was a fantastic job...they did it in 1/2 a day and the blue stitching looks great. Not the cheapest, but as someone said you do get what you pay for.

[Bass Junky]

Ant

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[Ant97GTR]

Hey Pete....

mate I thought you would've seen it in the flesh mate as I had it done before last years autosalon??

Anyway heres a pic I managed to dig up on short notice....

[Bass Junky]

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