Interior woes

["Robert (UK)" <r.lane@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Couple more gripes about recent purchases....

Well, kinda recent. My bro ordered some weatherstripping from Laysons 
some time ago. It took about 6 months to arrive and he (ok, we) didnt 
get around to checking the length for probably a few months after that. 
It wasnt till then that we realised one of the lengths they sent (it's 
for the door opening) is too short by a foot or two.
He put off ringing them for a while (partly cos we're aware how hard 
they are to get hold of) but eventually got round to it last week. They 
girl he spoke to said she'd have to ask someone else about shortages, 
and would call/email him back. Needless to say no one called back so he 
rang again yesterday and spoke to Dave Layson himself.
Apparently they have a 30-day returns policy so cannot replace the part 
with a correct length. They said they may be able to find an off-cut 
they can send to make up the length, but as we dont really want a join 
in it, we really need a 114" length to replace the short one.
We're still waiting to hear back on that one, but dont hold out much 
hope.

And... we've also had some Legendary seat covers laying around all year 
while we've been concentrating on getting the car running right/better.
Although I've glanced at them a couple of times over the last year, I 
didnt notice until Sunday that they have the wrong color stitching!
I wouldnt consider myself as being that fussy about the car's 
originality, or even appearing 100% original (it's a clone, after all), 
but those red/cream seats really do benefit from the white stitching in 
the red panels (seat & back) to break up the large areas of red.
As we've had them for around 10 months I cant see Legendary entertaining 
any thoughts of returning them, that is if we wanted to go thru the 
inconvenience of sending 2 large boxes back to them.
Worth asking tho, I suppose.

Such a shame tho, the rest of the workmanship & material choice looks 
spot-on.

The good news is that the door panels (front & rear) arrived from SMS 
last week, only 3 months late, but look very good.

An we should have our instrument cluster from AutoInstruments this week 
too!

I'll get some before/after pics when I can.

Robert
63 Polara 500
England


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