Seat Paint Refurbish - DIY, cheap and cherry

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So not long ago with the mighty help of forum member "Select" - aka Julian, or as I'd like to call him, POST GOD, helped me acquire a front driver seat all the way from Germany.

I actually only wanted the seat rail off it and not the entire seat, but after much investigation on Select's part he figured out a way to ship the whole hunk of a thing to me half way around the world without breaking the bank - actually it was done in two lots but it worked out perfect in the end!! Thank you again Julian!!!

As part of the giving back to the community I suppose, my intention of getting this hunk of a thing to me was so I have a beat up shell thatI can experiment with - paint wise, and this seat was the perfect candidate.

It was actually quite a new seat, just very scratched up. The rails were like new which was what I needed!.

Here's the seat in original form:



Someone obviously had a go at "touching it up" and failed miserably LOL


So rather than stripping it all back ect and filling the scratch marks ect I decided to just paint straight over it just to see how it matches colour and texture wise.

I decided only to paint the back of the shell NOT the bottom, so as to give an indication of colour and texture match.

Result:


Close up of the texture - I would give it a 99% match to original in colour and texture and tactile feel.


Next to a brand new seat (new seat on the left)



And here's the surprise bit you've all been waiting for ... what did I use!!??

I Shit you not ... spray paint - I've used this stuff before on exhaust and have always thought it felt and looked very similar to the CSL seat paint ... low and behold, almost a perfect match.


And the best/worst bit ... when you scratch this paint, it peels like the original! Lol!! Matches even in fragility!!