I have an incredibly hard time to find a used cat with a white interior which I love dearly (V6S coupe, dark blue, white interior). I am seriously considering buying whatever interior color and let some shop do a reupholstery.
- Did anybody go thru that process?
- Anyone knows price estimate?
- I find the color is on seats, door panels and on driver's side centre console. Are any hidden/other places, where is the color?

In fact I have found one car which is great, except it has brown (my least favourite) interior and I think the price is even lower because of this niche taste. So perhaps... perhaps I can do white alcantara instead and perhaps I can remove the annoying centre stitching on performace seats.

Thanks for inputs.

 

This will be a very expensive project, as you need to redo seats, center console and doors (or find them used). Redoing seats alone, if done right, would be thousands. More so, built-in curtain airbags that are part of the seat likely to become an issue.

Aside. I have white interior on my car. It takes a lot of effort to keep it clean. Any dirt immediately shows. Any leather creasing immediately visible. It is probably one of the more high-maintenance interior of any car I had.

It is nice not have to worry about scorching hot seat surfaces when getting into the car when it was parked outside, but honestly, black is so much easier to maintain.

 

Your profile just lists City for your location, but if you are in the UK I can recommend https://www.theseatsurgeons.co.uk. I use them to reupholster the seats and door trims on vehicles and I have seen F-Type interiors in their workshop, along with most other Jags and some high end sports cars.

The cost is likely not as high as you would expect if the upholsterer you use already has the templates on file. (With Seat Surgeons a 5 seat XJ saloon in basic leather is around £1k and premium soft leathers around £3k. F-Type is probably half of that with only 2 seats and 2 doors.) If they need to make new templates then the labour increases significantly.

 

You will probably have an easier time finding a car with a white interior and changing the exterior color (i.e. a wrap) than changing the interior.

 

Thanks, I am located in central europe. I was guessing about 2000-3000 EUR which is probably doable. Honestly more than the upholstery I am worried about disassembling the car lol. If the dashboard must go off completely then that would be serious PITA.

 

I used to do custom leather interiors for classic Porsches. A set of seats like these:


Would cost about $3000.00 US for the pair

 

J444G,
Recently, when I restored and modified my 1972 De Tomaso Pantera, I had a pair of C-4 Corvette seats re-upholstered much like the Porsche seats above by a regular furniture upholsterer for about $800 USD. As for wanting white "suede" seats, I have used thousands of yards of a synthetic suede called Passion Suede that is furniture grade microfibre suede which in my experience is better quality and stronger than the Alcantara found in Jaguars. It is available for about $5.00/running yardX60" width. I used to be in the textile industry and still have access to suppliers and have helped out many forum members on the X150 forum by getting them some of this suede for inexpensive headliners, etc. It doesn't have to cost you a fortune.