Best seat covers

[Johno]

Who makes the best seat covers

Cheers Johno

[Nigel Clark]

I used Newton Commercial for Spitfire seat covers and foams last year. They fit well and look original, though not the cheapest.

Nigel

[GFL]

The Newton Commercial kits for the Vitesse are excellent quality and fit well.

These where fitted to my Vitesse in 2005.

I also upgraded to modern seats with Headrest and had some replacement MGF covers off them around 2012 to match the Shadow Blue interior of my Vitesse, these too where excellent Quality and fit

Like Nigel states, not cheap but quality costs?

[DanMi]

would really help if we knew what car they were for, a lot of people like Parklaneclassics for seat covers for spit/gt6 most of the major suppliers are Newton Commercial

[Colin Lindsay]

Wonder who Paddocks get theirs from? Herald seats for example are £70 cheaper than Newton.

[Johno]

reclining Gt6/ spitfire seats. Thanks for the leads.

[Pete Lewis]

 £70  less    down to sales volumes but often suppliers and club shop are lower prices than direct from newton

Pete

[Graham C]

No one has mentioned Park Lane classic, always my port of call.

Graham

[DanMi]

30 minutes ago, Graham C said:

No one has mentioned Park Lane classic, always my port of call.

Graham

I did

[NonMember]

I got my Spitfire's ones from Newton, I think, but the stuffing was Park Lane. I've just ordered a full kit for the GT6 from Park Lane, so I'll see how it compares 😁

[dougbgt6]

Another for Park Lane Classics, the cheapest and the best. A one man band and you will have to wait, but well worth it. He only does Spitfire and GT6, coloured vinyl or black leather.

Doug

[Gully]

I used Park Lane for my GT6 seats - foams and covers. Still very happy with the outcome 5 years down the line. Only word of warning is that Owen doesn't do the original basket weave pattern vinyl.

Gully

[mcevedy]

I used Park Lane - Owen was very helpful - he made up red leather seats and interior trim for mine. A few years ago now but have been very pleased with them. Highly recommended.

[dougbgt6]

McE! You got Owen to do coloured leather?!!! He normally only does black, he would only do Chestnut for me if I sourced the hide. This turned out to be a minefield and I settled for vinyl. 

Doug

[ChrisJB]

Another recommendation for Park Lane Classics- leather covers and foam kits for a GT6 Mk3 but as others have said you need to be patient with the delivery.  They were relatively easy to fit with clear instructions.  Just for interest the leather covers and foams were about the same price as a set of TR6 vinyl covers which are the next lockdown job.  Not a totally fair comparison however as the TR covers are significantly more complex and these do have a close match to the original vinyl pattern.

[Badwolf]

Park Lane again here. No question about it. I think that Owen has more trade from this forum than anywhere else. Lovely stuff.

[aggie]

Everyone's cheaper than Newton but it's their kit that everyone else sells !  Rimmers, Paddocks, et al.   

[rulloyd]

12 hours ago, aggie said:

Everyone's cheaper than Newton but it's their kit that everyone else sells !  Rimmers, Paddocks, et al.   

Indeed.  If you are thinking of using Newton DON’T buy direct from Newton.  All the major suppliers use them and are much cheaper.

For my GT6 I actually had covers made in Leather by a local upholsterer, who did a great job (as cheap as vinyl covers). We used Newton foams and found them to be overly padded compared to the original - which you may expect - but he struggled to make them fit the covers which he had made using the originals as templates.

[dougbgt6]

I put my original covers in the washing machine, to my surprise they came out fine (I was hoping they would fall apart and I would HAVE to get replacements!)  I bought Park Lane's foams and they were a good fit. 5 years later I replaced the covers with Park Lane's due to deterioration of the "cloth" facings on the old covers and the foams were still in good order.

Doug

[thescrapman]

Fitchetts are selling some NOS covers on EBay, what is available changes regularly as they seem to be doing a roaring trade flogging their stash of NOS at the moment.

[mcevedy]

On 30/01/2021 at 08:34, dougbgt6 said:

McE! You got Owen to do coloured leather?!!! He normally only does black, he would only do Chestnut for me if I sourced the hide. This turned out to be a minefield and I settled for vinyl. 

Doug

Yes - he sent me a number of swatches so I could choose the colour - we went for leather for the seats and vinyl for the other trim.  Took a bit of time to organise but very happy with the results.