It’s always fun to do something new. We’re venturing into making seat foam kits for Ford XB coupes. Ford retrims are for sure familiar territory for a lot of people as there’s plenty of Ford parts around. But we really want to make comfortable seat foam as we think everybody loves a comfortable drive, even when the car may not be driven as a daily.
We started making Ford XB seat foam kits in Melbourne. Since moving back to NZ, we found the foam suppliers to be just as good. We will update our foam kits by utilising what we consider to be the most suitable materials and methods. This page will be updated as we go.
New Seat Foam and Skin Development
New seat skins cannot be properly developed without developing correctly sized foam. Foam comes in predetermined thicknesses and in a range of weight, quality etc. Commonly used foam thicknesses in car seats are 25mm, 50mm etc. That’s why by dissecting old factory foam and doing a bit of recovery work, we can learn what thickness and type of foam factory used. This can then be replicated, hence correct spec foam can be developed. New seat skins then get developed in reference to original factory seats (reconditioned, new springs put in where needed etc.), with new seat foam installed. For new models, we whip up mock up seat skins that allow us to check not just the sizing of the seat trim, but also double check our foam. The mock fitment would then show us where we need to improve our foam kit and/or seat skins. Our goal is to make foam kits and seat skins that are better than factory.
