I replaced the covers on a 85 Westy a number of years ago with Sewfine seat
covers and they came out great.    Not cheap but excellent results.

----- Original Message -----
From: "miguel pacheco" <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: How to clean dirty seats

> Damn, what's not to like about all that?
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Al Knoll <anasasi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is foam under the cloth.  Some solvent cleaners are just fine for
>> the
>> cloth but not so good for the foam.  If you can, take off the seat covers
>> and clean them exclusive of the foam bolsters and so on.  SewFine makes
>> some
>> fine covers should yours be beyond salvage.
>>
>> I wonder how many of us have actually been saved by child seats, or tiger
>> repellant.  None in my immediate circle of friends or friends children
>> but
>> then I live in California, the granola state (mostly nuts and flakes with
>> a
>> few dried up fruits thrown in).  Clearly your mileage and cost per mile
>> will
>> be different. Fotos of the recent desert wanderings can be found at
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/anasasi/TourDesFleurs2008.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Gracias,
> Miguel