# 1970 VW Beetle VINYL seats?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 7, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460 "2006-07-07T04:12:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460/1 "2006-07-07T04:12:12Z")

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A friend of mine has a 1970 VW Beetle (which she’s owned since it was new), and the seats are worn out. She does **not** want leather seats, nor does she want cloth-and-vinyl seats or cloth seats. She wants brown all-vinyl seats like the originals. She needs the foam cushions as well.

Does anyone know of a source for an upholstery kit?

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**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460/2 "2006-07-07T04:51:08Z")

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> [@Johnny L.A.](#):
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> A friend of mine has a 1970 VW Beetle (which she’s owned since it was new), and the seats are worn out. She does **not** want leather seats, nor does she want cloth-and-vinyl seats or cloth seats. She wants brown all-vinyl seats like the originals. She needs the foam cushions as well.
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> Does anyone know of a source for an upholstery kit?

You might want to source the supplier of the company in Mexico thats building them brand new.

But closer to home i would guess that almost anything can be recreated or has replacement sets. There should be bug forums and what not, for this and other paraphenalia.

Declan

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460/3 "2006-07-07T05:04:51Z")

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[Beetle seat pads in genuine hair](http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/wolfsburg_new/interior/seat_pads_bug.cfm)

[Seat covers and assorted knobs and things](http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/wolfsburg_new/interior/headliner_seats/seat_covers.cfm)

(Never done business with these people, but they came up near the top of a Google search and seem pretty thorough in their listings of model years and what the paint / upholstery colors were.)

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460/4 "2006-07-07T05:15:12Z")

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[url=http://www.cip1.com/]These folks go beyond seats - looks like you can buy every possible part for the car - little screws, on up to doors, fenders and engines.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460/5 "2006-07-07T05:15:55Z")

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**Johnny** Doing a Google on VW beetle interior parts yielded about 720,000 hits.  
Now some of these don’t have interior parts, and some are for new beetles, but this [site](http://www.jbugs.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=10241) was near the top, and it looks like they can handle the mission.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460/6 "2006-07-07T05:16:26Z")

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[These folks…](http://www.cip1.com/)

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-vw-beetle-vinyl-seats/363460/7 "2006-07-07T12:03:34Z")

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Thanks. I’ve sent her the links.