98 Cobra interior disaster

[1AestheticCobra]

Hey guys,

I just bought a 98 cobra. 98k miles, built, supercharged, etc. The outside is beautiful, but check the interior.. man what a disaster. Good thing is it has terminator seats.
Looking for ideas whether it’s to swap a few things out to make the terminator seats fit in with the rest of the interior or if there are good tan aftermarket seats I could buy that match the tan interior? I don’t want to mess with pulling the dash or any of that. I do plan on doing black carpet for sure.
Would I just be better of selling the terminator seats and getting some nice tan seats?

 

[lwarrior1016]

That’s not a disaster. Just a little mismatched, not bad though. The main thing you will run in too is that the new edge cars had charcoal interior and the sn had black, it doesn’t match well.

 

[1AestheticCobra]

That’s not a disaster. Just a little mismatched, not bad though. The main thing you will run in too is that the new edge cars had charcoal interior and the sn had black, it doesn’t match well.

yeah I guess disaster is a bit of an overreaction. Kind of just in a tough situation. I feel like at this point it’d be a lot easier to just sell the termi seats and get some aftermarket ones. I’d really like to find a set of tan aftermarket seats that match.

 

[DKblue98GT]

Definitely not a disaster. I expected ripped seats and such. You could probably sell the Terminator seats for enough to buy some good seats that match.

 

[PS.Green]

Definitely not a disaster. I expected ripped seats and such. You could probably sell the Terminator seats for enough to buy some good seats that match.[/QUOT

 

[PS.Green]

Where you located. I have some seats.

 

[PS.Green]

Where you located. I have some seats.

 

[delling3]

And, depending on where you are, I might be interested in your seats if you decide to off them . . .

 

[white95]

Just have those seats recovered to match your interior. It’s only money.

 

[MyLittlePony]

$300-350 a seat for vinyl
$400-450 a seat for leather
If you like the design of the seat, recover with saddle tan, otherwise buy correct. Though they probably will need to be recovered anyway, so that would be more expensive.

Buy some saddle tan interior dye and color match those airbags. Not sure if the previous owner painted them black, or the airbags blew, and were replaced with black. Dye the side vent bezels and the instrument cluster bezel too. I think that one was always black, but the car needs symmetry.

If you’re paying to have the seats reupholstered, see if they’ll do your steering wheel too.

New shifter boot, and unless you have some sort of attachment with it, the shifter knob too.

 

[damon81nola]

Hey guys,

I just bought a 98 cobra. 98k miles, built, supercharged, etc. The outside is beautiful, but check the interior.. man what a disaster. Good thing is it has terminator seats.
Looking for ideas whether it’s to swap a few things out to make the terminator seats fit in with the rest of the interior or if there are good tan aftermarket seats I could buy that match the tan interior? I don’t want to mess with pulling the dash or any of that. I do plan on doing black carpet for sure.
Would I just be better of selling the terminator seats and getting some nice tan seats?

Not bad just mismatched. At least it’s not this

Both seats looked like this.


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[ttocs]

if your having battery drain issues its because of the mach amp that you can see in the bottom of the dash there. Don't sweat the deck install from the cut wires. The wires they cut you don't need.

 

[Orl1mjf]

TMI seat covers, customize the way you want.

 

[1AestheticCobra]

Where you located. I have some seats.

Located around Kansas City area.

 

[1AestheticCobra]

Not bad just mismatched. At least it’s not this

Both seats looked like this.


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Damn. Lol how does it even get that bad!

 

[1AestheticCobra]

TMI seat covers, customize the way you want.

will probably look into this. The way I look at it at this point though is if I have to spend over $300 on covers I’d rather just sell these seats and get some braum seats.

 

[Flade]

Buy some saddle tan interior dye and color match those airbags.

Bad idea, The solvents in the dye weaken the plastic cover and change the force the air ag opens with. The manufacturers Strongly warn Never to repaint/dye an airbag.

 

[1AestheticCobra]

Made a little progress. This is in the midst of adding my AFR gauge. Removed the red knob, added the steering column black pillar and removed the black paint on the steering wheel cover. It’s been wrapped with a different color tan, but still looks better than the shitty black that was on it.

 

[MyLittlePony]

Bad idea, The solvents in the dye weaken the plastic cover and change the force the air ag opens with. The manufacturers Strongly warn Never to repaint/dye an airbag.

It’s not like it’s hard exterior paint. It’s meant to flex. Besides, I’ve had the airbags go off in my 94. If they’re powerful enough to blow my watch clear up my arm till it breaks, a little dye isn’t going to hurt it. I think manufacturers are simply a little hesitant and don’t want to accept liability after that Takata recall incident. But honestly though, they won’t assume liability anyway on a 26-22yo car. Especially since, like mine, his probably have had those airbags replaced by a non ford certified employee. Also, what about side airbags? The ones inside the 05+ seats. If you have them recovered, wouldn’t THAT be more dangerous than paint?

But saddle tan isn’t exactly as rare as the red or white interiors. He could probably just buy new ones. But if he gets the dye to paint his instrument cluster bezel (and hopefully that new steering column gauge pod too) then he may as well use it for other stuff. (Can even paint the nice/but slightly off color leather wheel he discovered too)

 

[damon81nola]

Damn. Lol how does it even get that bad!

Bruh I don’t wanna know!


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