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On 7 Jun 2003 at 15:29, Mark Fuhriman wrote: > I re-did the seats in my '69 Fastback about two years ago with TMI. > Excellent fit and quality for the most part. But I did have three > complaints: > > 1. They use the basket weave pattern on the back of the front seat bottoms > instead of the smooth black used on the originals. Yes! Right! > 2. On the front of the rear seat bottom, there is an ugly stitched vertical > seam running right down the middle. The original covers have no seam here. Right again! Mine came from Sewfine, but they may well have been made by TMI. I have no way of telling. Sewfine admitted to me that they weren't made by Sewfine. I sent them a long list of discrepancies, including the 2 you've mentioned. I don't think they replied. > 3. The original rear backrest cover for the Fastback (and Notch?) has a > rather sturdy cardboard piece running along the top. This cardboard piece > anchors the cover to the rear shelf. The TMI cover I got had a very flimsy > piece of plastic that would NOT have done the job at all. So I had to remove > the cardboard strip from the original cover and stitch it into the new piece. > This kind of problem may not apply to the Squareback. There's something similar on squares. There is a panel on the bottom of the rear seat bottom that shows only when the seat is folded down. I got Sewfine to include a piece of vinyl that I could recover this panel with. Otherwise I don't think they consider it part of the job, which is absurd. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org