Newly manufactured foams could easily be less compressible than 20+ year old
foams. I have read of people cutting an inch or two off the bottom of new
foams.
PaulH.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Phillips <sjp@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 29 December 1998 20:58
Subject: New seats ruin car!
>
>I wonder if anyone else has seen this phenomena. I purchased
>new seat covers, foams and webbing a couple of years ago, got the
>seat covers from Prestige, leather. My wonderful father-in-law recently
>did the work for me (i was babysitting my mother from heart surgery) and
>installed the seats in the car. They seem to be about 3 inches higher than
>the former seats, putting me in the position of looking over the top of
the
>windscreen, not thru it. Now, I'm only 5'9" so feel slightly unfamilar with
>this position. My question to the List is, are the remanufactured foams
>recently as different from the originals as this? Could my father-in-law
>have installed webbing etc in such a fashion as to make this big a
difference.
>Admittedly these seat covers from Prestige dont appear to have much room
>for side bolsters etc so I'm sliding around like a fish. I've heard
>Miata seats will fit right in an MGB and maintain the proper height,
>has anyone done this and how much were the Miata seats?
>
>--
>Stephen Phillips
>'73MGB (look for owner hanging onto windshield!)
>
>Woodstock Georgia
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