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Have a 1996 BMW M3 looking for some red Vader seats, in decent shape or great !!
Not really trying to overpay, I'm sure someone has them around!!
If you have regular black M3 seats front & back that's fine as well if the price is right!
Original owner Swapped M3 seats & I'm sure sold them for the money !!!
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Red? I'm not aware of the e36 M3 ever having red seats in any variant.
1998 Titanium/Dove M3/4/5
2020 Toyota 4Runner
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1. Anyone with a set of Vaders (that's not destroyed) for sale will probably figure out that the market price for them is high as heck.Originally Posted by RandyVee
2. Never seen red Vaders. With the exception of Corvettes and Porsche, the auto industry largely abandoned bright primary colors for leather interiors in the early 90s.
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I've seen plenty of sets of red vaders, but I can't be sure that they were factory original or not. I've also seen plenty of sport seats in the same shade of red, so it IS a possibility, although I'd guess quite rare.
I've definitely seen some red vaders that originally started out as grey - in fact grey seats seem to respond well to any color dye, so don't rule those out if you're prepared to 'do a bit of work' on them
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Except Z3s perhaps, but not Vaders
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Red vaders were likely only found on a few individual program cars. You probably will need to have an upholstery shop recover a pair in red for you
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I currently have black vaders (in relatively great shape) and also was looking into options for red.
Listed from most expensive and quality job down to cheapest
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I was quoted $100 additional (custom color charge) on top of the Autoberry price for an entire set (F&R) and enough scrap hide to do the 4 door cards. These have been confirmed to be of OEM quality and fitment when installed correctly.
http://www.autoberry.com/details.php?products_id=144
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There are much cheaper covers available from Lseat ($400). They also just started carrying the rear coupe covers which is great! No confirmed feedback on either sets as to pattern fitment quality. Lseat.com does have some negative reviews regarding customer service on other products. $700 for a F/R cover set is less than half of Autoberry though. It would be nice to have a guinea pig here on these.
https://www.lseat.com/products/1992-...ers-front.html
https://www.lseat.com/products/1992-...vers-rear.html
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There is also the "restoration" route where they clean, strip, fill, and then paint your existing seats. I would only have a professional do this, and most feedback seems to have the jobs holding up well over a 5-10 year period. This does save you the hassle of re-doing the door cards which is by far the biggest PITA part of the job. YMMV. I would not do this for light colors that mark up over time (red is probably 50/50). The other issue is that the seat foam really needs to be steam cleaned to restore it back to near original shape and form. You can't do this properly without removing the covers.....then why are you putting the old ones back on?
https://www.yelp.com/biz/color-glo-york-pa-york
Last edited by wgknestrick; 06-23-2017 at 01:43 PM.
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Only in 99 and they were power
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