Collector Car Maintenance

Practicing prevention Collector car maintenance is a little different to caring for your daily driver.  For one thing, the logbook servicing schedule is probably way off.  That’s if it still has standard components anyway.  But the big difference is that it probably doesn’t get driven as often, so the usual schedule benchmarks won’t apply. Spring […]

Pleats for Auto Upholstery

Com-pleat your seat An introduction to pleats Pleats for auto upholstery can come in many styles and are most often used in the inserts of seats.  At their most basic, the pleats will only be a few stitch lines on the face.  This is usually to allow a fold or to hold the listing.  (Listings […]

Seams for Auto Upholstery

Seams like a stitch-up An introduction to seams Before you have a car retrimmed, seams for auto upholstery are probably not something you’ve ever thought about.  After all, it’s not exactly a selling point for a vehicle.  Besides, why would you have needed to worry about them?  Well, any decent trimmer prides themselves on crafting […]

Vinyl vs leather

  Custom interior; vinyl or leather? Despite the other textile and material options available to those building custom car interiors, the two titans most often battling for a place when it’s decision time are vinyl and leather. They are sometimes mistaken for one another, and in some instances misrepresented.  While they may at times look […]

Custom car interior colours

Getting your custom car’s colour scheme right can have one of the biggest impacts on the success of your build. Only stance (and some would argue, wheel choice) will have a bigger impact. This includes the interior colour as much as the paint; if they don’t work together, you’ll immediately ruin the appeal. You know, […]