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Post Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:24 pm

I bought the pair of these for my new touring project, intention was purely to get tidy seats which I could retrim. Thing is, I really like the fabric - and am thinking about trying to source matching rears, repair the damaged fabric on the drivers bolster and skip the leather retrim altogether.

Problem is that I don't know what the type of fabric is - theres a blue-ish hue to them, which makes me thing they're indigo - but I've never seen similar before. Anyone have an idea what they are ?

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Post Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:02 pm

They don't look like indigo from the picture...they Look anthracite to me or dark grey?
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Post Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:04 pm

Then again that driver seat does look blueish on the vinyl....lol
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Post Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:15 pm

agree with you preferring cloth over leather :)
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Post Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:44 pm

This may help.

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Post Sat Sep 10, 2016 1:06 am

yes nice. & im the fabric man ! ... i got a blue upper boslster for sale . pls pm :)
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Post Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:17 am

Looks indigo to me, I have a rear seat base if you need a material donor
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Post Sat Sep 10, 2016 2:20 pm

biffer wrote:agree with you preferring cloth over leather :)
Generally I prefer leather over cloth, but this really is nice so might be worth completing the set.
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Post Sat Sep 10, 2016 2:21 pm

DanThe wrote:Looks indigo to me, I have a rear seat base if you need a material donor
Cheers - have a good bit of time on my side so will see if I can find the touring rears.

I will definitely take some of those RX7 adapters off you in the near future though :)
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Post Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:20 pm

Have a sample of indigo fabric on its way to me, so will hopefully be a match. Quick question though - anyone know how many yards would be needed to retrim the rear seats in a touring?