bittentoo
March 29th, 2004, 06:06 AM
It didn't take the wife or I all of about 45 minutes in the car to figure out that the seats are a little lacking in the padding area:(
I remembered reading here about using Tempur pillows for padding. So Friday morning I found a Tempur dealer and purchased two Tempur "small" neck pillows. Now these suckers aren't cheap, they were $80.00 a piece[:O]
Came home, pulled the seats out and did surgery. Pulled all of the staples out of the bottom cushion except the front ones. Peeled the upholstery back to expose the 1 1/2" foam that you sit on. Placed the seat over the pillow, traced and cut to fit. The tempur cut easy enough. Stuffed the Tempur pillow on top of the existing foam, got the wife to lend another pair of hands to compress the tempur and to pull the seat cover back in place, and staple down. The seat now has a nice full look to it but not overstuffed. Made the seat feel firm but not hard.
Saturday morning left out for a 300 mile Blue Bonnet cruise with 7 other cobras (why do you think that I was working so hard on the seats!)and you guessed it, to borrow a quote from clayfoushee, "butt nirvana":D:D
Not once did we have to squirm around from cheek to cheek for relief[^] The wife had complained with the old seats that they hurt her hip, but no discomfort at all with the tempur seats:D:D:D
I know that the price of the pillows is high, and I even left after I heard the price but after about 30 minutes more of driving, I went back a bit the bullet! This is the best $160 upgrade that you can do to your car!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remembered reading here about using Tempur pillows for padding. So Friday morning I found a Tempur dealer and purchased two Tempur "small" neck pillows. Now these suckers aren't cheap, they were $80.00 a piece[:O]
Came home, pulled the seats out and did surgery. Pulled all of the staples out of the bottom cushion except the front ones. Peeled the upholstery back to expose the 1 1/2" foam that you sit on. Placed the seat over the pillow, traced and cut to fit. The tempur cut easy enough. Stuffed the Tempur pillow on top of the existing foam, got the wife to lend another pair of hands to compress the tempur and to pull the seat cover back in place, and staple down. The seat now has a nice full look to it but not overstuffed. Made the seat feel firm but not hard.
Saturday morning left out for a 300 mile Blue Bonnet cruise with 7 other cobras (why do you think that I was working so hard on the seats!)and you guessed it, to borrow a quote from clayfoushee, "butt nirvana":D:D
Not once did we have to squirm around from cheek to cheek for relief[^] The wife had complained with the old seats that they hurt her hip, but no discomfort at all with the tempur seats:D:D:D
I know that the price of the pillows is high, and I even left after I heard the price but after about 30 minutes more of driving, I went back a bit the bullet! This is the best $160 upgrade that you can do to your car!!!!!!!!!!!!!