vettebk

So my upholstery guy agreed to recover my drivers side seat and seat back in my 2007 S600 with OEM Mercedes skins. I have the tan color Designo leather. He contacted Mercedes and they said the inventory showed both items in Germany. I gave him my AMEX card and he ordered the skins with a two week turnaround time.

This morning Mercedes called and said the bottom cushion skin was sold to somebody last week and there are no more and they don't expect to resupply it. I told him to grab the seatback skin while it was still available. But he had no suggestions to replace my bottom cushion skin.

I saw a skin on Ebay but it was used and in worse condition than mine and $170. Anyone have any ideas about a better alternative.

Jaap

Perhaps buy one in another color and dye it?

nath_h

Same with black lower cushion cover...out of stock and never to be made again. I got a new seatback cover a couple years back.

WRC-LVR

What about Katzkins? Cant they make it for you ?

vettebk

So Katzkins was new to me and I checked the web site. Apparently Mercedes is not on their drop down list. I did send a contact request because they show some beautiful leather. Maybe they can custom design one for me.

MB Germany was asking $1700 delivered for the upper Designo back skin and the lower cushion skin when their inventory said they had it. Someone got there before me. The ebay dismantler from California wanted $174 for a pretty worn and definitely dirty exact replacement bottom cushion skin from a wrecked S600. And two weeks ago, I saw a full interior, all four seats, in really beautiful slightly used condition for $1900 (very sorry I didn't jump on that).

I will post the results from the Katzkins contact soon.

vettebk

An Ebay dismantler based in California showed a used skin, not much better than mine in his pix, but desperation always pressurizes a decision. I bought it for $246 and he wanted the VIN to check fit before he shipped it. His VIN lookup showed it was not a match to mine, cancelled the order, refunded my money; but he did have another that matched mine. It also is quite worn and he circled the possible issues on his pix for full disclosure. I am reluctant to buy someone elses used problems.

Waiting to hear from Katzkins.

Jaap

If you know a little bit of German you could also check ebay.de for "w221 sitzpolster".
Then contact the seller even if shipping is only to Germany.

vettebk

And if I could get my wife to approve.....I'd ship my W221 back to Germany, have the car totally restored/reconditioned by the tradespeople in Germany before touring the rest of Europe for three months and shipping it back here.

vettebk

Here is the used item from the dismantler. Don't know whether the monitor will allow it....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/126457888604

joeshannon095

If you're patient and find a seat cover that is a different color in good condition it may be worth having it dyed. I did that on my old W221 S550 with a designo interior and it turned out wonderful. You'll have a to scroll pretty far but if you check out my thread below you can see the results.

https://mbworld.org/forums/s-class-w...igno-s550.html

nath_h

I've toyed with this idea also. It's only about $1000 to ship the car one way. Doing this would be an highly memorable experience.