[MBZ] Seat repair again

[Tom Scordato]

Go to the Walmart and by those floaty styra foam things the kids use in the 
pools, noodles they are called.  Cut them up and stuff  them between all the 
springs.. Helps\
Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sunil Hari" <sunilhari at gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <Mercedes at striplin.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Seat repair again


> Go to Meijer or Wal-Mart and buy a twin bed-size egg-crate mattress pad.
> The size happens to be -exactly- the right size for restuffing a 115 seat.
> One pad should be enough to restuff both passenger seats and the bench 
> seat
> in the back (but you'll be out of foam before you redo the rear seat
> backrest, which will probably be fine anyway).
>
> I did this repair two years ago with great success - seats felt better 
> than
> any other 115 seat I've plunked down in.  They, along with the engine, 
> were
> the best parts of my 240D.
>
>
> On 6/1/06, R A Bennell <blc at mts.net> wrote:
>>
>> I finally hauled the driver's seat out of my 76 300D last night and
>> partially dismantled it. The spring base seems
>> intact but has quite a bit of surface rust on it. I assume it had no 
>> paint
>> of any sort from the factory and this is
>> just the result of 30 year's exposure to humidity etc. Horsehair pad is
>> toast of course which was the reason for
>> looking into this issue. I have decided not to obtain a new horsehair pad
>> and am going the "new" route.  My thought
>> was to use a piece of carpet to insulate the new replacement padding 
>> stuff
>> that I picked up at Wally Mart. Can't
>> recall the name but there was mention of a writeup about seat repair on
>> here a while back and that fibrous plasticy
>> stuff is what the fellow used. I am now thinking I may find some sort of
>> light canvas type material and use it to
>> wrap over the piece of carpet to hold it in place and to permit me to use
>> a spray adhesive to hold the fibrous
>> stuff in place. In the writeup the fellow used pool noodles cut down to
>> bolster the sides. I'm thinking that the
>> fibrous stuff should be  sufficient if I glue some more onto the sides of
>> the larger piece to provide the amount of
>> bolster needed. There does not seem to be much bolster in the original
>> horsehair padding. I have not yet decided
>> whether I should try to stuff pool noodle material into the spring base.
>> It actually seems to be keeping my rear
>> off of the floor as it is and I don't want to make the seat too hard or 
>> to
>> high as the steering wheel will become
>> more difficult to slide under.
>> So, any comment from those that have done this?
>>
>> Randy B
>>
>>
>>
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> Sunil Hari
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