Updating the Interior on my 355

I didn't narrow the shoulders of the seats or do anything to the seat frames at all. I just replaced all of the leather and had the headrest supports re-chromed. I don't believe anything else was done internally. As Dave said, the Spider seats are quite different than the GTB/GTS cars. Seat tracks are electric, backrest release is in a different location, seatbelt brackets are attached to the seats instead of the rear firewall, the configuration of the back of the seats is different. I imagine they might bolt into a GTB/GTS, but I didn't try it in my GTB to find out for sure.

 

They would bolt on, but they don't slide as there are no power and control signals in a Berlinetta. They have manual lighter seats.

 

I'm Pretty certain that is the samples I received. I will check when I'm at my shop. If it is, I'm not a fan.

PS - thicker is not better. It's more stiff then. I have all original leather in my 98 GTS and the quality is sensational. It's far from "cheaper"

 

Yeah, these seats are really heavy, much more so than the Berlinetta seats.

 

So I stopped at the shop for a couple minutes....Yes, the samples I have from Connolly Brothers are Autolux. I have both beige 4208 and nero 8500. The beige does not seem too bad but the first noticeable feature is the little dots (hair holes). My 98 GTS does not appear to have them, at least not so obvious. Neither sample seems very supple but in all fairness, that could be different when stretched. I really need to take these home and do a side-by-side comparison to my original leather.

I happen to have samples from what CoachTrim used here also and just measured them:

The CoachTrim samples are .050" thick and the Connelly Brothers are .035" I'll see if I can find a location on my original to measure.

 

So this morning I did a comparison of the Connolly Brothers leather samples to my 95 in which I have many original pieces apart in my house.

While I understand dye lots do vary, the beige is a tad lighter in shade. Also, as stated prior, the hair holes are very pronounced. They can be seen in the original but it really takes looking hard for them. The sample has no texture at all aside from the holes so that makes me think I'm seeing holes created by the process and not the actual hair holes.

The texture of the nero is totally different so I find that strange.

I realize no two hides will ever be exact. In fact, it's clear Ferrari selected better grades for more critical areas as those are much smoother than the leather used on the pillars for example.

My home caliper battery is dead so I could not measure but I did a comparison and the original beige appears to be the same or perhaps .005" thinner than the sample from Connolly Brothers.

 

What about a black seat with the tan inserts and tan trim on the door panels? Looks good and enjoy it either way. Too bad the 355 didn’t have the Daytona option originally.

 

That is fantastic


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Is there a company that sells new leather complete seat cover sets for a 355 ?
My seat bolster is well worn and needs replacing. Both seats need to be recovered.
There used to be a company that sold the complete covers. I think they were close to $2 K for the set.
These would be for a spider.

 

worlduph
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re-originals
tons of places on ebay too
not very hard to find them

 

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Just to share some pics of the interior restoration that has been done few months ago.

I got some samples of Autolux from Connolley Brothers but they don’t look good. Very plain and unnatural.
I finally picked Nappa leather instead.



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