Comfort seat rebuild to sport seats with all electric features

[Porsche_Ron]

I thought I would pass this on to all, as I had always wanted sport seats for my car, but with all the features of my comfort seats (full power, memory, power lumbar, and heat).

I recently acquired a pair of low mileage sport seats via EBay. Their condition was excellent, but with limited features. My local Porsche dealership referred me to a local auto upholstery shop that had experience in repair and restoring Porsche seats, and posed them with my challenge of taking the best of both seats and building a hybrid seat. They were quick to take this project on as they had modified seats before.

I picked my car up from the shop yesterday afternoon to find I now have two sport seats with all the features of my old seats. They did an amazing job (same day turn-around) and detailed the leather as well. They look like new (the sport seats had very low mileage on them). All the functions are retained, including memory, heat and power lumbar. Just awesome!

Essentially they rebuilt my comfort seats using the bolsters, padding, leather and backs of the sport seats, for both the uppers and the seat bottoms, as opposed to transferring the mechanicals over to the sport seats. The seat frames are identical, so this simplified the conversion process.

They are now rebuilding my original seats with the leftover parts so I can re-sell them. Total cost: $593 CDN for the upholstery shop work. And one very happy Porsche addict...

Thanks for the feedback from various Renntech members for your input and guidance for this project.

I will post pics shortly.

R.