Sill Pad Retrim
i hope this serves as inspiration for all the 'ditherers' like me, wondering whether to do it or not! DO it, it's easy!!!
1) Remove pads - i used a plastic scrapery type thing and some pulling. not easy.
2) Pad comes off, looks like this:
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3) Use brute force and ignorance to rip the leather off:
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4) The foam comes off quite easily using a fingernail and pulling. Under it you will find a lovely smooth piece of high quality Norfolk Plastic
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5) I didn't bother cleaning up the insides of the plastic, nor removing all the supersticky black stuff that held the pad on. Life is too short. Draw around your plastic on a sheet of thinnish foam
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6) Cut out the foam
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and stick it on using spray glue. I got mine from an upholsterers shop (details at the end). I'm sure sticky backed plastic (yay! would work just fine)
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7) use the glue again to stick down the final material. I used leather effect vinyl. cost a couple of quid, literally and is waterproof for the inevitable S1 leaks. Note that it is easier to glue the vinyl down before cutting the shape out. remember to leave a gap around the edge for the fold-over (d'oh!)
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8) This is the inexpert bit - i'm not an upholsterer so i just did the best i could using spray adhesive and duct tape (yay!). No-one going to see the inside so i don't care what it looks like. And it works. Is there anything Duct tape can't do???
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9) No-one can spot my bodgery from the correct side!!
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10) i used sticky backed velcro to put them back on. I didn't remove all the gunk off the sills becasue i'm lazy and skint and CBA going to halfords to get some autoglym tar remover, as is suggested by others on this fine forum.
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