Does anyone know how or even if you can remove the seat back panels that are plastic on the leather seats?

 

of the front or rear seats the fronts ar deffentlly a pita and hard because clips hold very good and easy to break. why do yu want to remove?

 

the fronts, I just received a set of leather ones in the mail and the back got a little scuffed up in shipping. The seller is offering to get them fixed and im just trying to find the best way to fix them without costing him to much, because I feel if you deal with someone who is considerate and easy to work with you should help them out to. So if the back could easily break taking off which would be the best way to fix. I was thinking of either getting them painted, covered with matching leather, or finding a vinyl covering. Not really sure the cheapest way either so any input?

 

i would suggest sanding and repainting the leather will be very expensive and vinyl will be up there too the guy that did my interior charges around 750 to do the seats and your getting into custom work because they have no existing parrern to work with and looking at it it would be a small challange to work around the airbag in the seat. so cost effective would be masking existing leather and vinyl off and painting if you plan o painting pm me and ill give you a secret to painting plastic

 

well, i may be a shunned a little here but these seats are not going into an rx8. They are actually going into my jeep wrangler, I just love the rx8 seats especially black and red. So the airbag will not be used and can be removed. I was not talking about getting the seat completely recovered, if anything just a piece of black or red leather to go over the plastic, or i was thinking maybe going the vinyl decal route and get them covered with say a red or black carbon fiber look (not to high in price). Painting is also another idea but if i go this route I most likely will not do the work because I want it to look presentable and any of my painting is not lol. So either way i'll probably be looking at around $100. Im really leaning the paint or vinyl way because I want to match parts of my interior.

 

if you are confident in doing it vinyl will look the best but if you've never done it i would take it somewhere i helped the guy do my whole car https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-interior-audio-electronics-24/my-new-interior-pics-161534/ did not sew way to hard and lack of exerience and i did the lay out for things your talking about doing with his help and if not for him i would have been lost and turned out like ****. it is deffently not a rookie job and i can bet it will be 400-500 for someone else to do it if its not a friend or he is repitable. plus even if it is inheared on with glue it still need sewing to get it to form to the curves and need a special glue (no the 3m super 77 will not work it pulls in moisture).