New Seats or Seat recovering for old Nissan Sunny

[ClareQuilty]

I just picked up this very clean old 1991 Nissan Sunny for a price in the 30s, a good deal I think - the car is very clean, runs and drives very well and has cold air-con.  However, I hate the seats, partly because they're vinyl (I hate sweaty materials like leather or vinyl), and partly because the seat-bottoms are sharply angled (I prefer a very flat seat-bottom).

So, I'm considering either just recovering the seats with cloth if this service is available in Thailand, or better yet, replacing the seats with something from the junk-yard.  Has anyone any experience with replacing car seats in Thailand, or failing that, with recovering in cloth?  Are the seat-rails pretty standard, so that seats can be interchanged easily?

[transam]

Why not just buy cloth seat covers...?

It will cost a lot to re-cover. All the floor seat frames from other rides will be different, sometimes the original floor frames can be adapted to fit, l have done that but it is a workshop job..

[Denim]

I had a Nissan sunny ff the same as the op. Brilliant little car. Super reliable and cheap to repair as very simple engine.

 

However to avoid burnt bum syndrome I also got cloth seat covers. The ones from Big C and Tesco are crap. Finally got some very good ones in Worachak , Bangkok. Fit love a glove ( after a struggle ) and looked as if they were fitted by Nissan. Forget how much but a bit less than 1000 baht.

 

Outside Bangkok could be difficult but you could always buy some from the net.

 

Happy motoring ....... and who cares about losing face. I was happy to think of the money I was saving.

[kartman]

Probably the same platform in the B12/B13 Sentra , B14 Sunny , NV and RZ1 so lots of seats,  you could always just have the section you sit on/against covered in cloth lots of upholsters about just have to look for them that won't help you with the angle of the squab you may be able to modify the front seat mounts.

[ClareQuilty]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I just discovered via Google that there are products called "0rthopedic car seat wedge cushion", which effectively raise the rear portion of the seat-bottom. Now - where to find such a product for sale in Thailand?

[Ace of Pop]

Perhaps The Kardashians could spare You one of theirs..

[Lancashirelad]

Its usually fairly simple to put a spacer under the rear seat frame mounting which then of course has the effect of lowering the front. Then as has been suggested fit quality stretch covers. If you want to get a price to have them retrimmed, you need a shop that specialises in car seat repairs and retrimmming, there's bound to be some. The seats would have to come out to be retrimmed, so the angle issue can be addressed as they are refitted.

IIRC you are in Phuket? Phuket Classic Car Club, easily found on Google, would be able to point you to trim shops.

 

For 2nd hand seats, you would need to find out what other Nissans share the same floor pan.

[ClareQuilty]

Well, I had the carseat bottom redone at the upholsterer's. He lowered the front & raised the back, only 600 baht, reusing the vinyl seat material. The shaving of some of the foam from the front part of the seat was a great success - my legs are comfortable now - but alas it was a big mistake to raise (& firm) the back part. It's quite literally a pain in the tookus! Now I'm going to have to take it back & hopefully he can correct it.

[Lancashirelad]

Should have been raised simply by adding spacers under the rear seat mounts.

[ClareQuilty]

Yeah I suggested that to my mechanic, Lancashire, and he admitted it might be possible, but said the cushion-alteration would be better & so farmed me out to the upholstery shop.

[ClareQuilty]

Just thought I'd reveal the denouement of this little ergonomic tale: i took the car back for one last readjustment, and after removing the raised portion of the seat cushion, the end result is pretty comfortable. And can you believe it - the kindly upholsterer diddidn'tnt want to charge me one baht for the re-do! This kind of thing happens to me all the time in Thailand & only in Thailand.

Edited November 11, 2016 by ClareQuilty

[Lancashirelad]

Thanks for bothering to come back here and tell us, very few do. Glad you got it sorted finally.

[JaseTheBass]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I just discovered via Google that there are products called "0rthopedic car seat wedge cushion", which effectively raise the rear portion of the seat-bottom. Now - where to find such a product for sale in Thailand?

I use one on my office chair. Can't remember where I bought it though, but it would have been somewhere like Index, Office Mate or Home Pro.

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