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oldspa
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 Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:52 am Post subject: Original seat welts |
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Got a late split Aug 1966 US spec Canadian Kombi. O/G grey mesh seat covers, mostly intact as the miles are low 42k. The middle 2/3rd seat was missing, so got one but the gold mesh was wrong and shot to ribbons. I've got various bits of old O/G material that I could use to cover it but the whelt lines (those lines that they make in the seat faces, look as if they are done with a hot wire) all vary. I thought there were two kinds of grey mesh, material with whelt lines and material without. Some of mine has no whelt lines, some has deep whelt lines but some of it has a whelt line that is noticeable but not as deep, like an intermediate. Is it my imagination or are there actually 3 types of whelt line: deep, not so deep, and none  Or am I going crazy Probably the most likely explanation  |
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BarryL 
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:48 am Post subject: Re: Oh Whelt |
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| Got a late split Aug 1966 US spec Canadian Kombi. O/G grey mesh seat covers, mostly intact as the miles are low 42k. |
Kombi should be no pleats in sewn or heat.
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Clara
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: Original seat welts |
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The old mesh grey material is somewhat fragile. Unless you make a backing, it'd rip.
It'd be a lot easier to buy a new seat cover for the middle seat you found.
type 22 = microbus ... gets heat seams
type 23= kombi, did not come new with heat seams on seat covers.
is this a velvet green bus? |
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oldspa
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: Original seat welts |
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Thank you both, now I understand kombi without seams, microbus with. Right so I'm saying Kombi, but must be a microbus as it has the seams. I'll check my C of A from VW when I get home.
Yes it's velvet green. Point taken about the covers. I have used old grey mesh to cover seats before. Sometimes it has worked perfectly, other times a disaster  New material would look out of place as the rest of the seat covers have aged. I've got some NOS stuff too including a really nice middle seat lower cover but without the whelt lines plus it's got a grey rather than green surround. |
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Clara
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Original seat welts |
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If it is a type 23 its a kombi, and generally single color.
If it is a type 22 it's a microbus, and generally two tone. |
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oldspa
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:22 am Post subject: Re: Original seat welts |
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| Thanks, it's 2 tone so that makes it microbus which would be right as it has the seam lines... |
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oldspa
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Original seat welts |
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Quick stock take shows that all my stuff is smooth, for Kombi so wrong for my microbus!!
Wondering if TMI do material with the heat seams? It's unclear from the website |
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