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Mail From: keith (Keith Tanner)

The Crazy Red seats are Katzkins, but you'll have a hard time beating Crazy
Red on price or service. Recommended.

I've installed a few sets. The biggest problem is cutting off the old hog
rings. A trick to make it easier to reassemble is to use zipties instead of
hog rings. Much easier and quicker.

Keith

On 12/21/06, Larry Alster <(email redacted)> wrote:
>
> Crazy Red Italian has leather seat also
>
>
> Larry
>
> White Knight 1991 Crystal White #99 CSP
> Silver Bullet 1992 Silverstone #17 EM FM I+ Turbo
> Honey B 1992 Sunburst Yellow J.R. M45
> Whooosh 2004 Titanium MazdaSpeed MX5
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> LowCountry Miata lowcountrymiataclub.net
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> RAGS 074
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jim Wharton <(email redacted)>
> *To:* (email redacted)
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:37 PM
> *Subject:* RE: [Miata] buying original parts\Katskins
>
> Yet another reason why this list is so great! I was about to post the
> exact same question about leather seats for my '96. Passenger side is
> passable but the driver's seat is getting so natty that it finally spit a
> seam in the 'bucket' part. (Most likely due to an involuntary and
> instinctive 'gripping' of the seat material during spirited cornering)
> <Grin>
>
>
>
>
>
> I was eyeballing the Katskins last night on GoMiata.com
>
> How easy/difficult was the installation and do the Katskins look as good
> as OEM? About how long does it take to do each seat and is there any
> blood-loss involved?
>
>
>
> Thanx!
>
>
>
> Jim Wharton
>
> 1996 Black & Tan "Roadie"
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> *From:* (email redacted) [mailto:(email redacted)] *On
> Behalf Of *Fred Dagher
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:28 AM
> *To:* kevin cooper; (email redacted)
> *Subject:* RE: [Miata] buying original parts
>
>
>
> Go to GoMiata and order yourself a pair of Katzkin leather seat skins.
>
>
>
> store.miataparts.org/katpremitlea.html
>
>
>
> You can install them yourself (I did) or have the shop you mentioned do
> the install. The seats will match, and you can surely find a color combo to
> match the rest or your interior. You can get the pair for less than a
> single skin from the dealer. Well worth it, IMHO.
>
>
>
> FD
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> *From:* kevin cooper <(email redacted)>
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> *To: *(email redacted)
>
> *Sent:* 12/21/2006 8:09:58 AM
>
> *Subject:* [Miata] buying original parts
>
>
>
> I need to purchase a drivers side leather seat cover and to match the
> unused passenger side I need original. I have checked the dealers around
> hear and $522.00 seems awful high when I can get a shop to do all the work
> of putting it on and warraty it for $350.00. But they wont match the color
> exact or the pattern.
>
> Bisonfellow
>
> Kevin Cooper & DB
>
> 2001 Miata L.E. BRG
> 93 30' Pace Arrow
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Mail From: miata (MX5 Photographer)

Keith Tanner wrote:
> The Crazy Red seats are Katzkins, but you'll have a hard time beating
> Crazy Red on price or service. Recommended.
>
> I've installed a few sets. The biggest problem is cutting off the old
> hog rings. A trick to make it easier to reassemble is to use zipties
> instead of hog rings. Much easier and quicker.
I used that trick when I removed some padding from the base of a seat so
my helmet would clear the rollbar. I might have read it here first
(probably a post from you Kieth). I agreed.. much easier, faster and
tie-wraps are easier to find at midnight when one discovers they find
missing parts that should have been put on the seat *before* the cover
(er.. like the seat area one was trimming to beging with). Never
recover a seat in a hurry, with a race the very next morning...
starting at 11:00pm... not a good idea....

Oh.. digressing.. Katzkins seem to have a good rep in 'custom tuner'
business as well. The driver seat on my '90 needs some work come to
think of it...

- D


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