Alcantara

tomgoodwin3 · Post by **tomgoodwin3** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:19 pm

Afternoon all,

My mind has wandered onto my cars interior....

As I gave up on keeping my car 'original' a long time ago I was thinking it would look good all trimmed out in black alcantara (I hate 70's vinyl...the stuff they put in cars is pretty nasty too..

...)

Firstly, any thoughts?

Secondly, anybody got any idea how much the stuff costs and where I can get it from???.....just scoured google without much success....

Cheers!

roger · Post by **roger** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:02 pm

Tom

Evil bay has some :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Alcantara-materia ... dZViewItem

or :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Genuine-charcoal- ... dZViewItem

tomgoodwin3 · Post by **tomgoodwin3** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:23 pm

Thanks Roger,

Good 'ol ebay to the rescue again!

The second one looks good, checked out his website too:

http://www.martrim.co.uk

Interestingly he says that alcantara goes for £70 p/m, where as his price list has it down for £40 p/m....think i'll send for a sample.

Cheers

Gary71 · Post by **Gary71** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:25 pm

Lovely stuff, highly recommended!! I had my old Golf trimmed in it, fantastically durable and really comfortable. The only downside was that after about 8 years in the car (which was never garaged) it faded a touch and looked really dark bottle green rather than black.

No idea where you get it, I used to work at Aston Martin and bought some through there.

I think there are a couple of automotive trimmers who hang out on here so they can probably help.

pauladev · Post by **pauladev** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:49 pm

I second Gary - I didn't like the vinyl because it got sticky in the heat and cold in winter, so I retrimmed the cushions (seat and back) in a tasteful green alcantara in my 914/4.

I actually had enough left to do the centre panels in my 911 which also looks great and is very hard wearing and comfortable.

roger · Post by **roger** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:07 pm

Did you get a nice shade of pink Alcantara for the 944 Paul?

pauladev · Post by **pauladev** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:39 pm

roger wrote:Did you get a nice shade of pink Alcantara for the 944 Paul?

Unfortunately no - but I can get you a deal on a nice bolt of Olympic Blue!

Bazaar · Post by **Bazaar** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:13 am

MBS fabrics
£40 per metre, If you are doing the seats then you need to get alcantara with scrim foam on the back. Its a bit more robust.
If you have trouble give us a pm and I will order it for you.