Lusso Seats
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I removed the seats out of the Lusso I have at my shop.
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The owner complained that the seats felt a little saggy and looking underneath, it was obvious what the problem was. Normally, I would take these seats to my upholsterer, but I have several projects in the queue and taking another project over to his shop will only delay the other interior work I need him to get started. One solution was to fix these seat myself. I learned a lot about upholstery years ago when I apprenticed with an upholsterer when I restored my car, and this job was easy enough to tackle at my shop. I ordered the webbing, hog rings, and looked in my tool box for my old pair of hog ring pliers. With supply chain issues, and slowdown of the workforce, I have to do what it takes to keep the progress moving forward!
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The passenger seat wasn’t much better as the rubber webbing was hard as a rock and broken in several places.
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I cut away the hog rings securing the leather cover to the seat to expose the attachment points of the webbing to determine how much of the seat I would have to disassemble to reattach new webbing.
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New webbing and a bag of fabric reinforced webbing arrived in the mail, so I could start fixing these seats!
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I ended up doubling the amount of webbing in the seat cushions to give the seat a little more support. From what I could see from the stretching of the old strapping, too much support was needed with the few straps that were used the last time around.
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Working on these Lusso seats reminds me of who taught me about upholstery. Back in around 2000, I worked with Francois’ upholsterer Frank Segreto at a shop called East Coast Autotrim in New Rochelle NY. I offered to work at Frank’s shop once a week to trade him for time and expertise in refurbishing the interior of my 330 America. Through the process of learning about how a Ferrari interior was done, Frank and I became good friends. I learned a lot about leather, and how to make a show winning interior with Frank through bloody nail beds and stretching leather taught. Unfortunately, Frank died from a heart attack in 2009 after years of smoking and living in the fast lane. I was lucky to have known him, and will always remember the lessons he taught me. Thanks Frank.
Here’s the link to the Video I shot fixing the second pair of seats.