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Saab Upholstery Repair

Saab seats after reparation

Believe it or not, this is the same Saab 9-3 car! As you can see, before going to the Car Upholstery Repair service, The Vector seats of this car were in a pretty worn condition.

Is there a “magic” repair service that can do something superb with them for sensible money to get them to look good or do you actually have to get them retrimmed?

It really depends on how badly the leather is worn, if its just light scuffing a good clean and feed will keep it soft, supple and stop it getting much worse. It the outer coating has worn away, no amount of feeding will help. In that case, thanks to Velteck Saab parts you can buy brand new Saab seat covers, or can be repaired in one of the specialized services.

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In this example we have  leatherette (viny)-textile upholstery. Two-tone seats in Vector spec are not fully leather seats, light/dark strips are polyurethane (fake leather/leatherette). In Aero specs, basic equipment contains heated (when ordered) leather/textile sport seats (1 tone leather seats, 2 tone leather seats) or (1 tone) real premium leather seats. Anyway, In both cases, vehicle owners can successfully repaired seat covers.

in the pictures you can see the seats after the treatment at the DetailSupport service from Lublin (Poland). Touch-up of the seat of a 2007 Saab 9-3 with eatherette (viny)-textile interior. This is cheaper than purchasing new seat covers. Back to perfection!

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Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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